When Is enough... Enough?
Published Monday, July 17, 2006 by Nate | E-mail this post
War veterans denied GI Bill benefitsWar veterans denied GI Bill benefits
By RON MARTZ
Cox News Service
Monday, July 10, 2006
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — Andy Rowe thought he had life after the Army pretty well figured out before he came home from eight months in Afghanistan in November 2003.
An Army reservist since high school, Rowe, 27, planned to serve out the remaining four months of his military obligation in the inactive Reserve, get his honorable discharge and then use his GI Bill education benefits to go to college, just as his father did more than 30 years ago.
But Rowe soon realized that, despite his time in a combat zone, he didn't qualify for those education benefits unless he remained in the Reserves or Guard.
It's the same for tens of thousands of National Guard and Army Reserve troops mobilized since 9/11 — the largest deployment of reservists since World War II. Read All...
There are times I wish I could grab every chickenhawk in power by the throat and open-palm-pimp-slap them like
David Schultz did with John Stossel!
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