Didn't have this kinda stuff when I was in

[29palms]

Wow, has the military changed in the past 30 years! When I was in, there was no SMARTS. They didn't keep our records in transcript form. In fact, I had to reconstruct mine a few years ago. Reason I wanted this in SMARTS, (which stands for Sailor Marine Transcript Service) was because I was able to place my associates degree in the smarts system because I was in service during that time when I finished the degree, so I had them put it in Smarts so I wouldn't have to go back to all my colleges to get transcripts. Pretty much like ACE does, they compiled all of my transcripts into one transcript service. It's a handy service, plus they even evaluated some of my boot camp and correspondence courses for possible ACE evaluated/recommended credit.

I don't ever remember DANTES nor CLEP and getting any kind of free testing on those. When did all that happen? I was on the butt end of education in the military. We had the VEAP program, which is gone down in history as the worse educational program for the military in modern history bar none. I didn't even put in for it, and alot of those that did, never used it and lost their money.

Lastly, we didn't have internet to look anything up for information such as this flow of information we get on this board. And no such thing as internet or web courses. I have heard of correspondence courses, but never had internet based back then. I first attended a college class in 1980, right after I graduated from High School.