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No bones about it: Dog training school 1 of thousands getting military spouse education money

"Unleash the dog trainer inside you," urges an ad for the online Animal Behavior College, which makes no bones about whom it's trying to recruit.

In television and online ads, it speaks directly to military spouses. The message: You may be able to attend for free.The ads are working. In three years, 2,255 military spouses have enrolled, and the college has collected more than $2.7 million in taxpayer-funded spousal education benefits from the Pentagon — among the most of any school in a program called the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts, or MyCAA.But three years into the MyCAA program, concerns are growing that it's been caught up in a broader gold rush by for-profit colleges to recruit students with military ties and cash the taxpayer-financed tuition checks they carry with themAs the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began winding down in recent years, Congress passed a series of substantial education benefits. The best-known was the post-9/11 version of the G.I. Bill, which upda...

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