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Information from the Defense and Homeland Security departments shows overall tuition assistance users down 16.08 percent from fiscal 2013 to fiscal 2014. Because of changes in the program's administration at the DoD level, some information used for analysis in previous years was not available.
TA participants |
TA-funded courses |
TA cost |
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| Service | FY '13 | FY '14 | Change | FY '13 | FY '14 | Change | FY '13 | FY '14 | Change |
| Air Force | 106,744 | 100,430 | -5.92% | 272,162 | Not available | n/a | $191,614,205 | $180,097,466 | -6.01% |
| Army | 165,796 | 129,648 | -21.80% | 533,841 | Not available | n/a | $332,070,285 | $242,306,248 | -27.03% |
| Marine Corps | 26,602 | 22,014 | -17.25% | 67,933 | Not available | n/a | $47,028,923 | $38,999,046 | -17.07% |
| Navy | 47,440 | 42,108 | -11.24% | 130,961 | Not available | n/a | $88,056,616 | $79,400,203 | -9.83% |
| DoD Total | 346,582 | 294,200 | -15.11% | 1,004,897 | 801,325 | -20.26% | $658,770,028 | $540,803,015 | -17.91% |
| Coast Guard | 8,663 | 3,933 | -54.60% | 21,669 | 9,561 | -55.88% | $14,916,930 | $4,908,001 | -67.10% |
| Total | 355,245 | 298,133 | -16.08% | 1,026,566 | 810,886 | -21.01% | $673,686,959 | $545,711,016 | -19.00% |