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That trend shows no sign of letting up. The Army recorded about 82,000 TA users in fiscal 2018, according to information provided by Dawn Bilodeau, chief of Voluntary Education for DoD, during a military education conference in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That number is down substantially from the 98,000 who used the program in fiscal 2017. Taking the long view, Army TA usage appears to be down more than 30 percent since fiscal 2014, when 118,000 soldiers used the benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bilodeau said that some of the apparent drop in Army TA usage between 2017 and 2018 may be the result of inaccurate data that the department has been working to correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are all on track to tally slightly more TA users in fiscal 2018 than they did in fiscal 2017. This is perhaps most notable for the Air Force, which has seen its number of TA students fall substantially over the past several years. By contrast, fiscal 2018 saw the Air Force increase its TA student count, if only by a modest 1.6 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think we\u2019ve seen a little bit of a stabilization, if you will. I don\u2019t want to speak too freely, but for a while, it\u2019s kind of been up and down,\u201d Bilodeau told attendees of the Council of College and Military Educators conference. \u201cI think we found our sweet spot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bilodeau also noted that slightly more TA students attended public, rather than for-profit, schools in fiscal 2018. For-profit schools accounted for 38 percent of tuition assistance usage in 2018, down from 43 percent the previous year. 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