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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20101222/GPG0101/12220744/1207&located=rss people decide they don't want to waste anymore time so they come back and start going back to school. sometimes they get confused but that's ok because there's someone there to help them. A lot of times people are sitting in the classroom still waiting for benefits. vets are also a small portion of the growing population at local colleges. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20110102/NEWS02/101020328/1009/rss04 the post 9/11 Gi bill monthly living stipends for vets stopped in-between fall and winter. next year only full time students will continue to 100% stipend rates. benefits for going to private colleges and universities were able to get enough program dollars in order for congress to be able to expand the new Gi bill eligibility and improve some other features of the bill. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-army-waiting-list-record-levels-high-unemployment/story?id=12495054 the weak economy and the gi bill has made the waiting list known as the delayed entry pool .for the first time since 1992 almost all of the army recruits 99.9% in 2010 were high school grads. the military cut back recruitment goals everywhere.  (for example, for the fiscal year 2011 is 67,000, lower than 74,500 in 2010 and well below the average recruitment goal of 80,000 between 2005 and 2008)  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-army-waiting-list-record-levels-high-unemployment/story?id=12495054 http://www.stripes.com/news/many-troops-protected-from-basic-allowance-for-housing-rate-drop-1.129019?localLinksEnabled=false almost 400,000 active-duty members are going to see their basic allowance for housing protected from a rate drop because of individual rate protection. members living off base will get $100 million less for their bah payment by 2011. once a bah is set it can't be changed for a year but if you don't like your bah you can complain to the military housing office but it still won't get you a rate change for a year. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/12/gi_promise_draws_students_to_o.html over 13,000 vets and family members moved to Ohio to go to Ohio public college last spring. with the Gi promise they get immediate residency and pay in state tuition. according to the board of regents 10,876 vets enrolled into state universities and community colleges. several more vets and family members are going to different colleges also.
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