Quote Originally Posted by ElCid View Post
Scholarships are not aid or subsidies. You can get ROTC scholarships at any school. I had to compete against student not only at The Citadel but against students all over. If the military want to have access to qualified officers, it uses scholarships as a tool for recruitment. I'll give you tuition aid is another thing entirely. We didn't have a lot of that when I went. If it is that much, it's too much. Costs need to be curtailed.
We are both correct. I am not talking about ROTC> I am talking about direct, federally funded student aid $. A school can lose that money if Congress so deems. That money is specifically earmarked as a scholarship. That said, it accounts to less than $2 million per annum.