The National Aviation Academy does not, in anyway ...

The National Aviation Academy does not, in anyway support the #Military or #Veterans unless it benefits the NAA in some way shape or form. I am a 14 year Army Veteran, with over 56 months of combat deployments and 100% service connected disabled.

I attend the NAA for 3 months and realized the truth about the organization and was thinking about changing my career path. The NAA threatened me with an almost $8,000 bill if I were to leave. This was just last month.

I am currently a student at a college in the Tampa area. The NAA stayed true to there threats and gave me an over $7,500 bill. After contacting the U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and multiply other federal, state, and local governments/agencies the NAA just yesterday sent me an email saying they would wave half of the bill...... Something seems odd here. How is it possible that the NAA can charge a Veteran over $7,500 who is using there GI bill to pay 100% of their schooling just because they wanted to change their career path after only 3 months into an over a year long program?

They are exploiting veterans, the GI bill, federal funds, and tax payers. I am a vet who fought multiple wars for this country, I was wounded multiple times on multiple levels, I am 100% service connected disabled and I came home to Florida hoping to start a new life for my family and I. I took a chance with the NAA because they seemed to care about their purpose and about vets. I soon realized this was all a show. After my first day in class of over 60 students!!! Crammed in one room with some having to stand until they could find extra chairs. After weeks and weeks of spending 7 hours of my day in the class and of that on average 3 of those hours were accounted for as actual instructor lead teaching/projects/training in general. At one point I spent two days documenting these finding and when I took them to the student services department I was strongly encouraged to not do anything with my findings and that they would deduct time that I had missed for VA appointments. Operation: Military Matters and Central Pinellas Chamber of Commerce this is not an attempt to smear the NAA as a whole, there are wonderful instructors that truly love what they do and try their best under the circumstances. I do not have $7,500 to give away. Under advisement I declined their deal yesterday. Also under advisement, I requested a breakdown of all the charges and their expectations why they are being billed to me. I was denied that request by their collections department and was told to contact their counsel and was given a 1-800 number.....