The Department of the Army provides tuition assistance support for its own members but not for those of other Services.

Personnel eligible for Army Tuition Assistance are:

• All Active Duty Soldiers
• All Soldiers in AGR status, pursuant to titles 10 and 32.

USAR and ARNG/ARNGUS personnel eligible for RC TA are Soldiers in an active drilling status who are coded as a satisfactory participant.

Per Army Regulation 621-5 (11 July, 2006) TA funds will not be authorized for:

• Soldiers who have accumulated nine SHEs of college credit with one institution and do not have a SOCAD student agreement or a documented degree plan.
• eArmyU participants who have completed their second course enrollments and do not have an eArmyU/SOCAD student agreements.
• Soldiers who do not have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher after completing 15 SHs (or 22 1⁄2 quarter hours or 240 clock hours) of TA-funded college credit. To become eligible again for TA, Soldiers may use other funding (such as personal or financial aid) to enroll in college courses in order to raise the cumulative GPA to 2.0 or above.
• Soldiers flagged under provisions of AR 600–8–2, paragraphs 1–12 through 1–15. Soldiers interned in domestic or foreign prisons are not eligible for TA.
• Soldiers on terminal leave except when course completion date is prior to final out-processing date.
• Officers and commissioned warrant officers (CW2–CW5) attending school as part of programs (such as Fully Funded Schooling, Degree Completion, or Cooperative Degree Programs) under provisions of AR 621–1. Officers and commissioned warrant officers participating in the Training with Industry program are eligible for TA.
• A Soldier who fails to submit DA Form 2171, with all required signatures, prior to the school’s last drop/add day of registration.

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