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urned from basic training and infantry ait in the fall of 2006 almost immediately my unit was alerted for deployment to iraq and began our train up phase which culminated in two three week annual training periods for 2007 three weeks in august at for fiscal year 2007 and another three weeks at the end of september at for fiscal year 2008 we then moved to our mobilization station and deployed to iraq after the same scenario occurred prior to our deployment to afghanistan we had two three week annual training periods back to back at for fiscal year 2011 and at for fiscal year 2012 prior to being placed on title 10 orders for mobilization training i have been gone from my home and family since september 2 nd of 2011 even though my title 10 orders did not start until october 16 th 2011 why is that service not honored when calculating g i bill eligibility i have spent over half of my 6 year career on active duty training for deployments or deployed i have spent many more months on annual training crammed together prior to a deployment i firmly believe that annual training periods especially those strung together prior to a deployment should be considered for chapter 33 g i bill eligibility calculations i look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on this topic the second issue i would like to discuss is the method by which chapter 33 g i bill benefits are paid specifically the tuition payments currently when tabulating payments to the university the g i bill is paid last scholarships grants and student loans are paid towards the bill balance first the remaining balance if any is then paid by the chapter 33 g i bill this means that if my tuition bill were to be 4000 and i have 3000 in scholarships grants and student loans available they would pay first and then i would receive 80 towards the remaining balance on a bill of 4000 the g i bill would only pay 800 and still leave me with an out of pocket expense of 200 this is assuming that i would be able to secure so much additional financial aid what i believe should happen is that the chapter 33 g i bill pays first using the same situation on a bill of 4000 the g i bill should pay 80 or 3200 of my bill leaving 800 for me to secure financial aid for or pay out of pocket this is a much better situation for veterans and i hope that you will look into trying to change this aspect of the g i bill the last issue i would like to discuss is the way that classes are covered by the g i bill this is not just a chapter 33 issue it affects all versions of the g i bill prior to deploying to afghanistan i used the chapter 1607 reap g i bill because it offered more money for school than the chapter 33 bill did the issue i ran into in school was that the g i bill only covers classes required to graduate within the major minor plan set forth by the university you are not allowed to use g i bill classes to take prerequisite classes for post graduate schoolwork this results in many problems if the class i need is a prerequisite for post graduate work and the g i bill will not cover it i risk both dropping below full time enrollment for financial aid via the fafsa system and i also risk dropping below full time enrollment through the va for the g i bill on a few occasions in the past i have elected to not use my g i bill at all for the semester because too many of my classes were not approved because i did not need them i had to pay out of pocket for the semester and or rely on private student loans i could have used the g i bill on a halftime or quarter time basis but as far as i am concerned that is a waste of a month of g i bill eligibility especially for me as i am seeking to pursue 3 more years of education after my undergraduate work is complete this problem can also affect veterans in other ways a veteran using his or her spouse s or parent s healthcare insurance plan may be required to be enrolled as a full time student when the g i bill does not cover prerequisite classes veterans may have to drop below full time enrollment in order to still use the g i bill to pay for school which may result in them being dropped from the insurance plan this is a problem that needs to be resolved mr president i know you are busy but i also know that you care about veterans i hope you will take the time to read my letter look into the issues that i have discussed and work with the department of veteran s affairs as well as congress in order to fix these problems i would very much like to hear back from you i look forward to reading your response thank you for your time posted by joe at 6 46 am 2 comments wednesday august 22 2012 that guy issue 1 everybody knows that guy he s the guy in your unit that you avoid at all costs for a variety of reasons maybe he s the smelly kid a dirtbag soldier the guy with ucmj action pending or something else from a long list of possibilities this is that guy dirtbag admin nco edition that guy has been in the battalion for a long time working in the s6 communications shop at the battalion level as an it administrator on the iraq deployment he sat in a cushy office somewhere fixing computer problems until he got an ia violation so bad that he got demoted from cpl to pfc and sent home early that guy came to our company literally on the last day before the deployment we were at the armory packing supplies and equipment when he walked in the door he had signed his desp at the last minute and his slot in the s6 had already been filled so he was cross trained for two weeks prior as an 11b and then sent to us that guy was assigned to the coist because there was no room for him anywhere else he was shy at first not having been to the coist schoolhouse and seemed content to hang back and watch us work for awhile at the double at prior to our mobilization he mostly sat in the back of whatever room we had occupied smoking cigarettes and surfing the internet on his tablet pc at first i thought well he doesn t know what he s doing and there are 6 of us so no big deal once we got to the mobilization station that guy really started to shitbag out he never did pt with us and usually spent his free time playing world of warcraft on his computer hooked up to the internet via tether from his cell phone that guy is also incredibly messy leaving a trail of filth and garbage in his wake like pig pen from charlie brown that guy went to phase 1 of ocs but got dropped because he got kicked out of college that guy also believes that because he used to be a corporal he can talk to ncos and officers like he is an nco which results in a lot of conflict that guy is a radical republican whose views are so extreme that he clashes with almost everyone in the company within the first few days of our mobilization that guy alienates himself from our fet female engagement team by talking trash about women serving in the military he constantly makes extremely racist jokes towards our black platoon leaders despite being a minority himself he insists that since he was adopted by white parents he is white at ntc that guy sleeps on the floor on the cp at night instead of working with me that guy attends the coist mobile schoolhouse at ntc and suddenly becomes an expert in everything related to military intelligence slowly alienating himself from the rest of the team he is chosen for advon to afghanistan with the commander and leaves such a mess in the barracks at the mobilization site that it takes the rest of us two days to clean up all the garbage he has left behind arriving in afghanistan we find that guy working in the cp as the admin nco our admin nco went home during mobilization to command the rear detachment when the order came down to cut the brigade in half he was hard working passionate about fixing soldier issues and relentless in getting things done that guy is nothing like our actual admin nco he is appointed by the commander to handle the day to day admin issues while the first sergeant is en route into country he sits at his desk and chain smokes e cigarettes he s south korean all day playing world of warcraft on a satellite he has already bought and set up as a wireless network he takes university of phoenix classes online when soldiers come in with pay issues personnel issues promotion issues or whatever else that guy is supposed to help them instead he puts their paperwork into a manila folder behind his desk and goes back to playing world of warcraft he completes small tasks given to him by the commander and first sergeant just enough to stay off their radar whenever he is severely cornered he throws down the racist card despite insisting that is he white and not asian any other time he sneaks out of work here and there to comb the fob for any spare equipment or supplies people may have left out despite being a staunch republican ranting about fiscal conservatism and government waste to anyone that accidentally starts talking about politics with him that guy believes that anything on the fob that isn t bolted down is fair game to steal and mail home to sell on ebay over the course of the deployment instead of helping soldiers fix their pay correct their promotion points or get help with another issues that guy mails home toughbox after toughbox of government property chemlights lanterns tube lights flex cuffs old uniforms extra sleeping bags are just some of the items that go missing from around the fob i don t really care one way or the other but after awhile i say something to the first sergeant who says it s more work than it s worth to curb his sticky hands the stuff that guy is stealing isn t technically on the property books and getting any sort of action done against him would be a pain in the ass possibly falling through anyways that guy reveals he is stealing all this stuff to mail home to his parents he is 30 and lives at home to sell at the army surplus store for him because he owes the government 30 000 in back taxes for some small tax fraud he committed he claimed all of his roommates on his taxes as his dependents for 3 years in college whoops that guy is put in charge of a mwr satellite system with 6 laptops and 2 phones to be set up in our back room for the guys in the company to use he immediately takes one laptop for himself back to his desk so that he can surf the internet all day without paying for his own satellite he half ass sets the computers up not installing any of the programs the guys request to call video chat back home two of the laptops need repaired and despite his primary mos being in it he throws them in a box under his desk for most of the deployment things go on like this for months until our commander gets promoted and we get a new commander the new commander is from a cop where he spent most of the deployment cold and starving he is a nice family type of guy but he also doesn t take any shit and expects a lot out of his men that guy is immediately shit canned stacks and stacks of school certificates pay stubs and other paperwork are found in that guy s desk drawer that never got actioned the new commander tasks me with that guy s workload and i get caught up after three weeks i ve never seen soldiers so happy one guy walked into the cp with a pay stub for 1500 in back pay and i would have thought he had won the lottery by how excited he was in less than a month i ve made our poor unit from detroit into thousandaires promotion points are finally updated for everyone that went to schools during mobilization or completed correspondence courses while we ve been over here despite not knowing a single thing about it work i repair the two broken mwr laptops and re image all 6 to have all the programs the guys want to use to communicate with their families instead of a bunch of people waiting to use 3 laptops there is now usually no waiting for one of the six computers in contrast to my work that guy spends the last two months of our deployment sitting in his tent all day chain smoking and playing world of warcraft which seems like a reward instead of a punishment but everyone agrees that is better than having him in charge of the company s paperwork a few days before that guy redeploys early we get a phone call that he mailed home a bunch of full magazines of ammunition through the post office which was caught while being x rayed on the way out of country we are all eagerly awaiting to see what sort of punishment awaits that guy back home my gut tells me nothing will happen but i am hopeful posted by joe at 9 51 pm 3 comments friday july 6 2012 on combat well we have been here for 7 months so far deployed mobilized for 11 this deployment has to be the most laughable waste of american military resources and tax dollars in history i hope our situation is unique if it s not then i am not even sure why any of us are here we have made such little difference here that i am confident that the brigade our battalion particular could leave overnight and no one would notice that we were gone we expend most of our manpower securing the base and driving our leaders to other bases for meetings we rarely go on mission and when we do there is no large scale impact sometimes we drive to a checkpoint and give aup classes on how to be aup sometimes we drive to a checkpoint and no one is there or they are too tired or busy and then we drive back we rarely spend more than a few hours away from the fob senior leaders berate junior enlisted soldiers for failing to perform duties way above their paygrade and then give each other bronze stars for pushing paperwork on the fob all day the base defense staff spends their time combing the fob looking for people smoking too close to their tent people having sex or catching someone without the proper uniform on instead of actually worrying about threats to the base our missions have evaporated as other nato nations take over as we prepare to leave for good next year the majority of the people in the company work 6 hours a day in some sort of base defense role on 2 week rotations usually with 2 weeks off after if someone is late to their shift the command post staff get reamed one of our responsibilities now is to wake everyone up 45 minutes before their shift so that they are not late we are waking up 30 year old men because they cannot wake up on their own for anything bizarre does not even begin to describe this deployment senior ncos and officers spend entire days in their tents sleeping or watching movies without any real responsibility multiple times a day i have to ask myself what the fuck are we doing here we are supposed to be helping the ansf units in our area transition but most of them do not want our help or are already transitioned and we just visit them so that we can say we have a job to do guys attempt to write themselves up for cibs for the smallest scratches on their truck or any number of random noises missions are canceled so the battalion mortar team can fire off illumination rounds for a 4th of july party th...