10.10.2007

join the national guard, earn money for education. or not.

I think wmtc needs a separate blog category for "how the US supports its troops".

From Think Progress, via Allan:
Approximately 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard recently returned home after serving multiple tours of duty in Iraq. They served 22 months — "longer than any other ground combat unit" — received nine fatalities, and were awarded dozens of Purple Hearts.

But the Army wrote the orders for 1,162 of these soldiers for 729 days, making them ineligible for full educational benefits under the GI Bill, which requires written orders saying they were deployed for 730 days or more. These soldiers were shorted more than $200 per month for college.

See the Think Progress post for details and a clip from CNN.

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