I mean, that doesn’t always mean it affects the rest of the military service. My recruiter lied to me and told me I wasn’t eligible for a bonus. Really, he would have just had to wait a few days for a waiver and he wouldn’t have made his quotas. I still joined, I just occasionally curse his name while drinking and thinking of the few thousand more that could have been in my pocket. That doesn’t make me anti-military, but I am fairly sympathetic to the idea that recruiters lie. Like the kid I just talked to the other day who said his recruiter told him his MOS couldn’t deploy. That was worth five minutes of laugh right there.

The reason the GI bill is hard is that it doesn’t cover room and board. It covers tuition. You can’t do it without working while you go to school. And really, if you were going to work your way through college, what’s the point of the GI bill anyway?

I’d like to see Jim Webb’s version of the GI bill passed. That’d be something I could get my teeth into.

A Vietnam Veteran and dear friend of mine, waited until he was 50 years old before he finally went back and got his BBA. I agree with you on the need for a change to the time limit. If it takes us awhile to get around to going to (or back) to college, so be it, just let us have the funds we earned already. My friend got his degree, hopefully, so will all of the others who want to go to college, but waited a little too long.