{"id":22284,"date":"2023-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2023-08-09T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:51:25","slug":"changes-to-armyignited-education-portal-mean-new-requirements-for-soldiers-seeking-financial-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=22284","title":{"rendered":"Changes to ArmyIgnitED education portal mean new requirements for Soldiers seeking financial assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Patrick \u201cPat\u201d Smoak, right, an education services specialist, discusses educational opportunities with Spc. Claudel Saint Clair, assigned to the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Aug. 2 at the Camp Zama Education Center.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Recent changes to ArmyIgnitED, the Army\u2019s online portal for requesting financial assistance for higher education, mean new requirements for both new and current users, an education services specialist here said.<\/p>\n

Effective Aug. 1, all Soldiers new to ArmyIgnitED who are seeking tuition assistance or credentialing assistance must attend an introductory briefing. Soldiers assigned to Camp Zama can schedule this briefing with Patrick \u201cMr. Pat\u201d Smoak at the Education Center.<\/p>\n

Current ArmyIgnitED users on Camp Zama must now submit an Education Degree Plan, or EDP and upload it to their account when creating their education goal through the portal, Smoak said. An automatic hold on their account will be activated until they do so, he said.<\/p>\n

Soldiers can continue to submit a credentialing assistance request, or CAR, through the portal until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Aug 11. Soldiers must submit and ensure approval of any tuition assistance request, or TAR, for fiscal 2023 prior to 8 p.m. EDT on Sept. 7\u2014no exceptions, Smoak said.<\/p>\n

Soldiers may continue to create a TAR for courses they plan to attend in fiscal 2024 from Oct. 1, and must submit them no more than 60 days after or seven days before the start date of the class, he continued.<\/p>\n

Smoak said Soldiers should not hesitate to call him at 263-5068 or email him at patrick.a.smoak2.civ@army.mil if they have any questions or concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone that asks questions of us, education-wise, as far as their goals, that\u2019s what we do,\u201d Smoak said. \u201cWe take care of them, and we go out of our way to do research and ensure that they\u2019re maximizing any funding that they can get from scholarships, loan grants, tuition assistance and credentialing assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The counselors at the Education Center are also available to advise Soldiers on their education goals. In fact, it was Smoak\u2019s interaction with a military education counselor when he was a young sailor that influenced him to pursue his eventual career.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe kept it real with me,\u201d Smoak said of the counselor. \u201cShe made sense and she put things into perspective. She spoke directly to me, and that … molded me into being the counselor that I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Education Center is here for the benefit of the community and Smoak said he is there to help Soldiers utilize and maximize their education benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s [all about] giving back and prioritizing the Soldier, as well as their families and the community,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir success is my goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick \u201cPat\u201d Smoak, right, an education services specialist, discusses educational opportunities with Spc. Claudel Saint Clair, assigned to the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Aug. 2 at the Camp Zama Education Center. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo) VIEW ORIGINAL CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Recent changes to ArmyIgnitED, the Army\u2019s online portal for requesting financial assistance for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22286,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22287,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions\/22287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}