i’m a Vietnam Era vet and for a long time had problems returning to mainstream life after my servive in the Marine Corp. After years of problems Found out that i sufferef from PTSD from my time in the corp but by that time my benefits had run out. Is there anything i can do to get those benefits back?

I concur with the above comments. I’ve been writing to my congress people and heard nothing back.
I am surviving dependent of Viet Nam era and the previous benefit situation was tough to use. 10 years of benefits are good, but how can you use them working full time and attending school full time? I would like to see an extension also for Nam era vets

I am a retired vet and at this time I am using my GI Bill but it runs out next year. I believe all veterans gave their service one way or another. We should not weed out by who served where and when all veterans should be extended to the 15 year mark. I served 20 years is this asking to much, I know there are many veterans in the same situation.

I served a total of one year in Iraq I did my four year term and decided to get out to allow my wife to go back to school after four years that I have already been out and have established a home and a career the post 911 to bill got passed and now the marine Corp want me to sign up another four years for my spouse to use the to bill what’s with that have I not already served my time for at least my wife who has stuck with me through thick and thin for the Corp to say that military wives have not done enough that they must go through it again in order for the to use their husbands g I bill is sad and though I love the Corp it’s seems to me that us veterans are being left out in the cold I thought we were suppose to look out for our fellow marines

Stop whining, you were given 10 YEARS to get a degree. It was your decision not to use those benefits. Live with it. I am going to use all my benefits in 36 months, you were given 120!!!
And as far as allowing your wife to recieve the benefits, its a retention tool, so if you want to give it to her re-​​up.

I fell sorry for our of us vets that in the nam time got screwed more than any other. I used some of my benifts then on 1980 but two years later was told that I could have no more thats crapt we earned this and it should never be taken awayat any time norany time limits lut on it. This does not cost the goverment anything to keep it open. we put our lives on hold to serve andcome back to get treated like dirt. Maybe more vets should be in charge of the v.a. instead of the buddy system {non vets} one more thing I have waited for 28 years to hear back form the V.A. on a cliam and never have twice Ihave filed and got no results /​from them sent the D. A.V. them an e mail no responce. called the V.a. and they could give a crap less. so much for obams we are going to process these claims fast another joke.

If you think that the VA should be run by vets, then go work for them. Alot of the guys that work for the VA are vets and they try their hardest, but time limits are necessary. You can’t have every veteran ever collecting on the GI BILL at the same time. Furthermore if there were no time limits, one could get pell grants and gov’t subsidized loans for their first few years of school and use the VA for the last few, thus keeping other americans from getting affordable education. The VA provides a great deal of services, but I will only use the GI Bill, hoping that 36 MONTHS of education in a row, and some hard work will boost me out of the income limits for the VA. Granted I could just do the job I did for the Navy, I was of course a Nuke, but the GI bill, as it always has, allows me to use 36 MONTHS of benefits in the next 15 years to pick any field I wish.
Kourtney, sorry about the HYT, but you still get ret pay, and between that and the new gi bill you both should be able to go to college with little need to work, my girlfriend and I are both going to school on the money I saved up while I was on active duty (I drove a beater and never wasted money so I saved a ton) and the new GI BILL. Its tough but worth it.

The thanks we get from our country? Were you not given money for your service? Did you not grow up in America, and weren’t you given the chance to do anything you put yourself to. Vietnam was forever ago, you were given great offerings from the gov’t, don’t try to claim that the gov’t turned you loose w/​o help, the GI bill and the VA loan have been around since the end of ww2, if you are in a position 30 years later to still be dependent on the VA, then you might have just slipped up somewhere and should be greatful for the little bit they do happen to do for you.

Madnuke:
You ALREADY have a GOOD Job–FIGHTING VETS.Navy you say? You SOUND like just another Civilian IMPOSTER.This drivel you have posted is RIGHT OUT of the VA’s back side.Asked did you–did not the Nam era Vets “Were you not paid MONEY”? YOU obviously believe the Veterans OWE the Veterans Administration.“You should be GRATEFUL for the LITTLE BIT they do do for you”.Did you NOT say?There are VETS of WW-​​2 that have been FIGHTING the ULTIMATE–FORMIDABLE FOE—The VA for over 55 years and Korean War vets for over 45 years TRYING to get just and DUE compensation for service connected injuries and YOU have the brazen audacity to come on here with that shttt of yours.TRY telling that to the Families of the MANY VETS that NEVER came home.“IF” you ARE a VET YOU typify the USUAL SELFISH insensitive types who TRY in VAIN to measure and JUDGE others by YOUR pompous AZZZ.I NEVER respond to attacks upon ME on these boards nor do I EVER acknowledge people who attempt to rebuff me not having the slightest idea of what they are talking about but I WILL respond–and react to people like YOU.EVERYONE is NOT a pompous azzz hole like YOU are.The Soldiers–Marines–Pilots–and Sailors SERVED this Nation—the American PEOPLE and protected their way of life and MANY did NOT come home.“WE” VETS owed the American people but the GOVERNMENT who SENT us OWES us.Since you THINK you have it ALL figured OUT for yourself and EVERYONE else as well.I strongly suggest that you STICK to managing your OWN affairs and PRESERVE your UNJUST criticism for YOURSELF because some where in time YOU are GOING to NEED it​.So keep PRAISING the VA–for YOUR turn and time WILL come.And you WILL see that–when you get where you are going.Military injuries can linger for long years BEFORE they assert themselves.I AM such a VET.Lastly—since YOU want to FIGHT VETS apply for a JOB with the VA.You are ALREADY well prepared WITHOUT going to College.Apart from that—Go to HELL–in a hand basket.Unfortunately–This Nation AND World is filled with SELF RIGHTEOUS–SELF INDULGENT–UNCARING–INSENSITIVE—FALSE SUPERIORITY COMPLEXED People just like YOU​.In essence–YOUR philosophy is—“Just DO like ME–Just THINK like ME—Just BE like ME and ALL will be well.Sure it will.

Vietnam Vets should get some kind of nice education benefits. How soon do we forget. I have not.

Well another segment forgotten is AGRs. I’m full time active guard. I work at Mountain Home AFB for the Air Force directly. We offer support to this base 24/​7, nights, weekends and holidays. We are on call 365 days of the year. We deploy when requested, we support this base every day of the year and every hour requested. Why don’t we get the new GI Bill because we are Title 32 instead of Title 10? This is my whole life; I too will retire from the active duty military as a full time AGR in about 6 years. Why in the world would the government exclude one segment of its full time military? You tell me?
Also we have prior active duty service members who only received educational benefits under VEAP. VEAP was very limited and didn’t offer much in the way of comparable benefits. Is there any provision to allow the folks who came back and stayed in to have something other than the few thousand they received? Shouldn’t they be allowed to contribute and receive the same benefits as the rest of the active military as well? Most people think of VEAP as covering retirees from the late 70’s and early 80’s. We have a lot of members in their early and mid-​​forties that would like to be able to retire and go back to school in the next few years but are ineligible for any further benefits other than what was given under VEAP. I would personally be angry to be active duty and be excluded from the kind of benefits those around me are receiving. Both scenarios to me seem excessively exclusionary. The definitions and eligibility issues need to be revisited.
I personally might find myself in a position at some point that I may need the new GI Bills benefits only to find that because I’m Title 32 and not Title 10 that I can’t have them when someone else in the exact same position can have. What kind of sense does that make?

oakland,
first of all I am, infact, a veteran. I busted my butt doing a job you couldn’t even imagine, and I did this job because I knew that if I didn’t like the military I would need a skill set the was valued in the outside world. The VA pays benefits to the families of the fallen, so I don’t know what you are rambling about there.
My time won’t come, as you say with the VA, as I will not depend on someone else all my life, all you veterans that leech off the VA after serving your 4 years, get over the military, it was your choice not to better yourself. You can’t keep blaming the military for your short comings.
For those who got a bum deal on the gi bill, you knew what you were getting into. The benefits were clear when you joined, yeah it sucks that it got better and you aren’t getting that deal, but every generation is different. I know I won’t be able to collect social security or medicare, but I have paid into both those systems since the day I started working, so who is getting the bum deal now. I have to set my self up for sucess, while your generation destroyed the planet, and leeches off the systems, I have to work hard not only to support you but to build up my own safety net as you left my generation with nothing. So yes, we get the gi bill you don’t, but we need the education to pay for your mistakes and indiscresion.

I got out of the Air Force in 1980,4 year enlistment with a honorable discharge. I was supposed to have 10 years to use my GI Bill. Well the Veitnam Era GI Bill got cut off in 1989 regaurdless if you had used all of it. I was lied to. I didnt get 10 years to use it. I still had 17 months left. You can not believe or count on any thing.

I served 23 Years in the Navy. During which time I had three children. By the time I retired my two oldest boys where in High School. My youngest was only four. I never got to be a full time Mom and this was my last chance. Then my sister died, my father four days later and then four years later my brother. Life can get in the way of going to school. I got a late start. I love going to school even at the age of almost 50. I’ve got a year and a half left. I’ll have plenty left. I’d never though of leaving it to anyone, wow, I wouln’t feel so bad falling short. I’m not going to whine about it, but another five years sure would be nice.
I’m more upset I think about Dental Benefits not being covered. Maybe I’m partial to that because I spent my career in the field.
My father was in Vietnam, exposed to agent orange and died of lung cancer. His claim died with him. After jumping through many hoops for two years my Mom got the back pay.

WHY BOTHER

As a retired USAF E-​​7 I really can’t understand what the whining is all about. I retired in 97 and fell under the Vietnam era education bill and had 10 years to use it. I pretty much used it all but had a little left. It was my fault I didn’t use all of it. Not someone else.
As far as the Guard members. Come on! You may have been working for what ever years but you were paid on a different scale as the active duty members and had a different promotion standard until recently. You can’t have it both ways. You enlisted in the Guard and took the benefits of that program. What makes you think you can now get the perks of the active duty members too.
Talk about unfair.