How much of your military experience HAS translated to civilian credit?

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Explicitly and truly, how much credit toward civilian certifications or schools did you receive for military experience? We used to be told that we could CLEPS or WEPS or whatever our experience into college credits, but in real life that turned out to be false, or else something like 1/2 credit for four years' experience.
Anyone have a true story for us?
 
Was told I could use it for up to 12 elective credits, but could not use it towards core courses for a degree.

The rub was I was offered the same by the university for my paramedic course done through a community college, so it was one or the other, not both.

The reality is most of the elective courses in university seem to be the ones you want to take so it basically gets you nothing.
 
Yeah, reminds me of the SPECTER weap spec who was re-enlisting because his first four years left him with nothing to show but a traditional GI Bill...not to sneer at, but ...
More?
 
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Army 13f Forward Observer

15 units per the school staff, but none of it was applicable toward my RN while i was in school....... so essententially nill

Keep in mind this was back in the very early 90's. Likelyhood of it equating to any credits now has got to be nill
 
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Nothing I did in the military carried over civilian. I got 6 units at my community college in Physical Education/ Elective credit for completing basic training.

With that being said, I have a friend who was a Nuclear something or other in the US Navy, and he walked into a stationary engineer position without having to complete their 4 year apprenticeship program and was hired as a journeyman with no experience outside of the military training/ experience.
 
11B Infantry here, and ya... nothing transferred as you can imagine.
 
I remember the Nam pilots, especially heavy drivers, being the backbone of the domestic airlines for a long time.
Of course, they had this urge to disgorge their payload (pax) on pallets..
 
I have another buddy who is a Paramedic in the National Guard. He told me his training in the Army only got him a NREMT-B certificate which I thought was weird.
 
31B MP... With OSUT/WLC and all of my correspondence courses I received 36 Credit hours towards my associates in Criminal Justice with Columbia Southern University.

Great part CSU has free textbooks as long as you pass the course you keep the book.

I enjoy the assignments as well “term course enrollment” is 10 weeks in length we a predetermined set of 8-10 assignments usually open book exams with 2-3 short essays.
 
91B-W1

I think I got 21 or 28 credits towards a nursing degree from my military time. Mostly electives, but also some regular classes. I am not sure which ones exactly, but could give you a list if I dig out my transcripts.
 
You had an ATP card though right? I'm assuming based on the Ranger scroll.
 
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You had an ATP card though right? I'm assuming based on the Ranger scroll.
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The advanced trauma practioner stuff came out way after I already had my identifier. Back in the day they put us through 300 F1 at Ft Sam. Now I think SOCM calls this 300F8, but I am not sure as I have been out for awhile.
 
But did it get you a job, or advanced professional placement, or credentialing?
 
4 years in the Marine Corps, MOS field radio operator. MOS training is basically useless.

As far as I know I couldve used recruit training and MCT for physical education credits in college. I did have to take a bunch of correspondence courses in order to get promoted to Corporal. One of them was on personal finance, so maybe that might have been transferrable for something at a community college, the rest were crap like land navigation and "battle skills" so yeah, nothing doing there.

This was almost a decade and a half ago so I doubt anything would still apply, and my GI Bill is expired anyway.
 
I met a guy who "re-upped" for another hitch; he was 22 and was trained to be a gunner on a SPECTER gunship. Maybe could have driven a bakery truck in Londonderry.
 
68W Healthcare Specialist (Combat Medic) - graduated AIT in April 2010.

I came out with my NREMT-B, but since I already had that going in, I didn't really gain anything additional.

I talked to someone who went through the course with me who said their community college gave them an MA cert, but that's the most I've heard of anyone getting.
 
Per my transcript, here is what I received college credit for from the military, as determined by the University....

Personal Health
Community First Aid
Marksmanship
Emergency Nursing Procedures Intership
Emergency Nursing Procedures
Fundamentals of Nursing 1
Fundamentals of Nursing 2
Military History
 
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mycrofft said:
I met a guy who "re-upped" for another hitch; he was 22 and was trained to be a gunner on a SPECTER gunship. Maybe could have driven a bakery truck in Londonderry.
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What would an American be doing that side of the pond, and in that part of the world? Or is there another Londonderry I don't know about? Or am I missing the joke...?
 
Norther Ireland bakery truck ad: "Door-gunner needed". Old joke from the Seventies.
 
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