A high school diploma for a veteran who left school to serve between August 1940 and July 1947, Territorial Guard members included. No Alaska residency is required and a family may apply for a veteran who has died.
Also called: 14.03.077, World War II diploma, honorary diploma, Alaska Territorial Guard, August 7 1940, July 25 1947, GED.
AS 14.03.077 directs the Department of Education and Early Development to award a high school diploma to a veteran who served in the armed forces of the United States between August 7, 1940 and July 25, 1947.
Members of the Alaska Territorial Guard are covered by name. That is the point of the program in Alaska. Many Territorial Guard members were rural Alaska Native residents whose schooling ended when they took up the defence of their communities, and who were not recognised as veterans at all until 2000.
Three features make this unusually open.
There is no Alaska residency requirement. A veteran who served in the qualifying window and now lives anywhere may apply.
Holding a GED does not disqualify. A veteran who earned an equivalency certificate later in life can still receive the diploma, which some state programs of this kind refuse.
And a family member may apply on behalf of a veteran who has died or who is incapacitated. Given that the youngest person who could qualify was born around 1930, this is now the usual case, and the program is in practice a way for families to complete a record.
The process starts with an email to the department, and the discharge paperwork is submitted to the World War II High School Diploma Program at the Department of Education and Early Development in Juneau.
What the diploma is worth is not employment or admission; nobody in this cohort is applying for either. It is a record and a recognition, and for a family documenting a Territorial Guard member's service it sits alongside the honorable discharge the Secretary of Defense can still issue posthumously.
Alaska does not run an equivalent program for Korea or Vietnam era veterans, which several states in this catalog do. The diploma window is the Second World War and nothing after it.
Thresholds
Thresholds for Alaska World War II Veteran High School Diploma
Gate
Rule
Service between August 7, 1940 and July 25, 1947
In the armed forces of the United States, with Alaska Territorial Guard members covered by name.
No Alaska residency requirement
A qualifying veteran living anywhere may apply.
A GED does not disqualify
A veteran who later earned an equivalency certificate may still receive the diploma.
A family member may apply for a deceased or incapacitated veteran
Given the age of the cohort this is now the usual route.
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Disclaimer
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