Enlistment Bonuses for SELRES
September 1st, 2010
Effective October 1, 2010, bonuses will be available to prior service personnel who affiliate in the Navy Reserve in the ratings, and for the period of times, listed below, and also for new enlistees who enter the New Accession Training Program (as listed in the NAVADMIN below) for a minimum of 6 years.
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Four Years After The Navy
July 28th, 2010
I received an email from my oldest son, Tommy, today. He mentioned that today has marked four years post Navy for him. I wanted to share a portion of the email to demonstrate what the GI-Bill combined with lessons learned in the Navy could do.
Tommy is currently completing an internship with Senator Alexander (R-TN) in Washington D.C., and will be starting his second year of law school at Penn State.
A portion of the email; (Read the rest of the story…)
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16 Weeks to 24 Days
May 7th, 2010
Last year, May 1st, when you were first able to enroll in the Post 9/11 GI Bill, the average processing time was about 16 weeks; today, the processing time is about 24 days – oh, what a difference a year makes.
Continuing students, who have registered for the Fall 2010 semester, have already started to receive their book stipends ($41.67 per semester hour, up to $1000 per year), and the colleges are receiving the tuition payments! Remarkable!
A reminder, if you are taking summer classes – remember the (Read the rest of the story…)
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911GIBill Break Pay
February 10th, 2010
Help get this word out!
As you may be aware, I am attending college full time using my Post 9/11 GI-Bill. Recently, I had a couple of questions for the Veterans Administration (VA) – first question concerned two payments I received that I didn’t expect (nor did I know what they were for); one payment just before Christmas and the other at the beginning of January, and my second question had to do with why my current Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) payment didn’t equal the 2010 amount for the schools zip code.
First, the latter BAH question. The issue is that the VA is having to update all the records by hand, as the automated system hasn’t been finished; as a matter of fact, that is (Read the rest of the story…)
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911GIBill What Ifs
October 20th, 2009
I received a letter from the VA today which described each of the payments that were deposited a few days ago for my Post 9/11 GI Bill benefit. One of the pages described some “what ifs” concerning any changes in my enrollment.
Grades You Receive
VA can’t pay benefits for courses that don’t count toward your graduation requirements. If your school reports that you received a grade that doesn’t count toward your graduation, you may have to repay all benefits VA paid for the course. Here are some examples: (Read the rest of the story…)
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College, Better Late Than Never
September 27th, 2009
In 1980, as my graduation from high school approached, I needed to make a decision about what I was going to do for the rest of my life; what was going to be my life’s work? I had many options I could have pursued. Certainly, I wasn’t the best student in high school, but I was far from the worst. Throughout my teenage years, I heard time and time again that the only real path to success was through institutions of higher learning, but due to my hard-headedness and stubborn ways, it would be years in my future before the realization of a college education’s potential would become clear.
Funny thing, as most (Read the rest of the story…)
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Overcoming Post 9/11 GI Bill Transfer Backlog
August 21st, 2009
Due to the overwhelming number of applicants for the transfer of Post 911 GI Bill benefits, the VA has fallen a little behind in getting out the certificates of eligibility – per the below NAVADMIN a number of colleges/institutions have agreed to accept a copy of the approved TEB web page and a completed VA FORM 22-1990E until the actual certificate arrives. Read the NAVADMIN in its entirety; (Read the rest of the story…)
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City College of Chicago City Wide
July 22nd, 2009
While completing my enrollment requirements for starting college this fall, utilizing the Post-9/11 GI Bill 
, I hit a snag when trying to locate my transcripts for courses I completed while stationed in Keflavik, Iceland. My SMART transcripts listed the courses and provided the following address:
- City College of Chicago City Wide
4529 E. Honeygrove Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
After many fruitless attempts (Read the rest of the story…)
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More 911GIBill Good News
July 8th, 2009
Just got off the phone with the VA education office out of St. Louis and asked an important question for those who served post September 11, 2001 but used their Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) benefit prior to the Post-9/11 GI Bill becoming law – didn’t seem fair to me, anyway… (Read the rest of the story…)
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911GIBill Transfer Questions Answered
June 24th, 2009
Transfer all or part of your Post 9/11 GI Bill to one or more of your eligible family members.
Service members eligible to transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits are those who, at the time of approval of the request to transfer entitlement is first of all eligible for the benefit and
- has at least 6 years of service in the Armed Forces (active duty and/or Selected Reserve) on the date of election, or
- has at least 10 years of service in the Armed Forces (active duty and/or Selected Reserve) on the date of election, is precluded by either standard policy (Service or DOD) or statute from committing to 4 additional years, agrees to serve for the maximum amount of time allowed by such policy or statute, or
- is or becomes retirement eligible during the period from August 1, 2009, through August 1, 2013, and agrees to serve the additional period, if any, specified below in paragraphs 3.a. through 3.e. A Service Member is considered to be retirement eligible if he or she has completed 20 years of active Federal service or 20 qualifying years as computed under section 12732 of Title 10 U.S. Code.
- For those individuals eligible for retirement on August 1, 2009, no additional service is required.
- For those individuals who have an approved retirement date after August 1, 2009, and before July 1, 2010, no additional service is required.
- For those individuals eligible for retirement after August 1, 2009, and before August 1, 2010, 1 year of additional service is required.
- For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2010, and before August 1, 2011, 2 years of additional service is required.
- For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2011, and before August 1, 2012, 3 years of additional service is required.
Members of the family eligible to receive the transferred Post-9/11 GI Bill are (Read the rest of the story…)
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