This speech reviews the cooperative effort of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Division of Education and the educational branches of the Armed Forces. Emphasis is placed on steps facilitating educational progress within the services. These issues concern transferability of service credits, accreditation of service educational institution programs, development of a broader range of external degree programs designed to meet the needs of the career military program, development of model legislation, and availability of new and generous student aid programs. (MJM)