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Tuesday Night Jam: Nick Johnston, "Weakened by Winter"

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Decatur Deb2/01/2017 7:08:23 am PST

re: #302 Anymouse

At the time I reënlisted after my broken service, the Montgomery GI Bill had not come into effect, and the Vietnam Era Assistance Programme (a contribution programme) had just been repealed. There is about a year and a half period where there were no college benefits for serving in the military.

But the law requires withdrawing college benefits provided by military service if you are declared unemployable by the VA anyway. (Epilepsy is an automatic finding of unemployability, regardless whether it can be controlled by medication, surgery, or other methods, or not.)

You guys got fucked. I was under the WWII GI Bill—you served, you went to college. College isn’t a trade school.