Military Leave Resources
February 18th, 2009
Military leave is like your vacation time, you accumulate 2.5 days a month (30 days a year). Liberty is time off from work, it can be as long as 4 days and does not count against your leave balance. In the military you get time off and it is more than most employed civilians get. Each branch of the armed forces wants you to utilize the time off to unwind and relax and they have set up organizations to assist you to do just that.
One problem is that our Service members (active, reserve and even retired) rarely know what all their resources are. Nothing worse than (Read the rest of the story…)
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What To Do With My Post 911 GI-Bill
November 24th, 2008
Back to School w/ the New GI-Bill
When I joined the Navy back in 1980 going to college wasn’t one of the life options that appealed to me. After all, I didn’t like sitting in a classroom during high school why would I think sitting in a classroom in college would have been any different. I wanted the adventure of the Navy, so I joined.
In November 1980 I arrived at Navy boot camp and was offered a college program. The program I was offered, Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP), required an investment from me – for every dollar I put in it would be matched with two dollars. The maximum I could invest was $2700 leaving a total of like $8100 for college. Not liking school very much in the first place this didn’t seem like a very good turnover for my hard earned cash so I didn’t enroll.
Sometime in the mid-80’s the Montgomery GI-Bill (MGIB) came out. If I recall the MGIB was a $100 a month for the first 12 months and paid you like $10,800 total over 36 months for up to 10 years after you got out of the service, that was a little better deal (Read the rest of the story…)
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