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Posted: 12/25/2014 7:54:27 PM EDT
[#1]
Taggity. 
Ah, never mind. I thought this was posted in GD. I was already settling in for the fireworks. 
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Posted: 12/25/2014 8:00:10 PM EDT
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You're getting paid for serving our country. You're going to get a better degree and hopefully go to work and stimulate the economy. Having more educated people around is only a good thing, even if you never use your degree for your job.
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Posted: 12/25/2014 8:13:28 PM EDT
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You served, you earned it.
There are a lot of people who get more and deserve less. You won't be the one that causes the economy to collapse. If you don't spend it some jerk off in Congress will give it to some crack who who will have a kid that tries to wrestle a gun away from a cop. It's much better off being spent on you. No ragrets. |
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Posted: 12/25/2014 8:16:08 PM EDT
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It's part of your salary when you join, not FSA, not even close!
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Posted: 12/25/2014 8:28:43 PM EDT
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I know I'm new here, but I've been lurking this forum for a while. Although my post count is low, I feel like I have a decent vibe for the forum. I was just going over my finances for the next few months and wanted to see how much money I'd get paid via BAH on my GI Bill January 1. Ebenefits told me...and I began scrolling...
Grand total? $88,829.11 And I still have 5 months of entitlement left and that does not include other things I've qualified for like the Pell Grant, Need Based Grant, etc (which have been at least $5,000/yr x3 years.) The national debt surpassed $18,000,000,000,000 this month and I'm over here raking in over $100,000 in free money? I think about all of those people out there busting their asses making 80k a year and having 20k or more go to taxes and FIVE of those people busted their asses for an entire year paying taxes that they could have put to good use so that I could go to college and live pretty decently. Is it wrong that I feel sort of guilty for this? I have but one request: Get your damn degree and be proud of every dime you spend making for a better opportunity for you and your family. Have no regrets for doing so! You by god, atleast put your ass on the line unlike all the assholes like Rev X and Rev Y who run around spouting stupid crap they know nothing about, while just trying to incite violence and encouraging racism. Hold your head high and be the better man you know you are. |
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Posted: 12/25/2014 9:59:47 PM EDT
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I know I'm new here, but I've been lurking this forum for a while. Although my post count is low, I feel like I have a decent vibe for the forum. I was just going over my finances for the next few months and wanted to see how much money I'd get paid via BAH on my GI Bill January 1. Ebenefits told me...and I began scrolling...
Grand total? $88,829.11 And I still have 5 months of entitlement left and that does not include other things I've qualified for like the Pell Grant, Need Based Grant, etc (which have been at least $5,000/yr x3 years.) The national debt surpassed $18,000,000,000,000 this month and I'm over here raking in over $100,000 in free money? I think about all of those people out there busting their asses making 80k a year and having 20k or more go to taxes and FIVE of those people busted their asses for an entire year paying taxes that they could have put to good use so that I could go to college and live pretty decently. Is it wrong that I feel sort of guilty for this? No. Don't feel guilty for one second. Ignore GD FSA retardation. |
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Posted: 12/25/2014 10:58:10 PM EDT
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No need to feel guilty. You worked hard to earn it.
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Posted: 12/25/2014 11:29:08 PM EDT
[#8]
No guilt required for that. Enjoy it, it's temporary.
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Posted: 12/25/2014 11:48:13 PM EDT
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It's not just an entitlement....it's an earned entitlement. It's a benefit that is part of your total compensation package. Money well spent IMHO.
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Posted: 12/26/2014 2:26:31 AM EDT
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It's yours, you earned it. The GI Bill/Army College Fund got me through school and got me my degree. Use it well.
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Posted: 12/26/2014 3:49:23 PM EDT
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Thanks guys. I guess I just let the GD FSA talk get to me.
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Posted: 12/26/2014 5:14:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Thanks guys. I guess I just let the GD FSA talk get to me. GI Bill is essentially deferred compesation based on a contract you signed for a specific service. Not one bit of that is FSA. Yku earned it, enjoy it. Txl |
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Posted: 12/26/2014 8:58:24 PM EDT
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GI Bill is essentially deferred compesation based on a contract you signed for a specific service. Not one bit of that is FSA. Yku earned it, enjoy it. Txl Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thanks guys. I guess I just let the GD FSA talk get to me. GI Bill is essentially deferred compesation based on a contract you signed for a specific service. Not one bit of that is FSA. Yku earned it, enjoy it. Txl |
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Posted: 12/28/2014 2:36:06 PM EDT
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It is not free money. You earned it. GI Bill is part of the deal when you serve. Consider it money you would have earned over and above military pay had you not served.
Use every dime you have coming. It taxpayer money and I for one am damn glad veterans at least get some of it. |
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Posted: 12/29/2014 5:15:13 PM EDT
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Nothing pisses me off more than when some non-serving-ass-civilian tells me you're welcome when I told them I'm using the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill to go to college. Someone I strongly consider a friend has said that to me and I just wanted to punch them in the face. That was apart of our contract, and we earned it!
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Posted: 12/29/2014 7:31:03 PM EDT
[#16]
I'm on the GI Bill too. Enjoy it. You certainly earned it.
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Posted: 12/31/2014 2:47:55 AM EDT
[#17]
Benefits negotiated into your contract, or renegotiated into a reenlistment.
Not FSA. |
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Posted: 12/31/2014 4:02:19 AM EDT
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my wife and I are both using our GI bills and it is enough for us to get by.
we earned it, use that shit! |
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Posted: 12/31/2014 11:11:52 AM EDT
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Dude we have millions of citizens that never got off their fat asses to even look for a job that got far more from the Tit then you have after serving your country honorably.
Dont go feeling to guilty. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 1:09:28 AM EDT
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Who wants to take bets that OP is a retread of GuyInFL.....he did the same shit on GlockTalk as Eurodriver quite a bit, looking to troll.
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Posted: 1/17/2015 12:52:02 AM EDT
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Who wants to take bets that OP is a retread of GuyInFL.....he did the same shit on GlockTalk as Eurodriver quite a bit, looking to troll. Nope, not taking that bet. I don't understand his fascination with coming back to Arfcom repeatedly to troll under different names. You would think someone going to school to be an accountant would have some sort of maturity or character. He's on M4C under the same name (Eurodriver) and while he does post stupid shit all the time, it doesn't rival the things he's done here. |
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Posted: 1/17/2015 1:40:18 AM EDT
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GI Bill is essentially deferred compesation based on a contract you signed for a specific service. Not one bit of that is FSA. Yku earned it, enjoy it. Txl Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thanks guys. I guess I just let the GD FSA talk get to me. GI Bill is essentially deferred compesation based on a contract you signed for a specific service. Not one bit of that is FSA. Yku earned it, enjoy it. Txl Yep, this. Think of it this way - you were making ($$ in your pocket) far less being enlisted in the Army than you would have made if you had gone straight to college from HS, gotten an engineering degree and started off working in industry at 21/22. And nobody was shooting at those guys, or trying to blow them up with IEDs. |
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Posted: 1/17/2015 11:28:28 PM EDT
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Wow, wish I had your BAH rate.
Then again, this was in my payment history 09/11/2014$20,235.02Post 9/11 GI Bill Payment to SchoolDirect Deposit 09/11/2014$1,627.49Post 9/11 GI Bill Payment to SchoolDirect Deposit |
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Posted: 1/17/2015 11:29:52 PM EDT
[#24]
Why the hell would you feel guilty? I feel guilty it's not more and I've never served.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 12:43:27 PM EDT
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NEVER FEEL GUILTY! Our earned benefits are the same as any other benefits received from any other civi job IE dental, healthcare, etc.
My post 9/11 is paying a little under a 250K for flight school, and I don't feel the least bit bad. The National debt is the fault of the idiots in office, NEVER yours. |
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Posted: 1/25/2015 10:33:38 PM EDT
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I have a True Story I call Williams Taxi Cab Service. It happened while I was stationed at Fort Hood in 1976.
The heart of the story is thus: I earned All of the Freebies for being a Serviceman. I know many others who have earned their places in line for free meals more than I have. Lost limbs and paralysis just to cover the easier ones to mention. BUT I have earned my place in line, too. While I was in during Peacetime the Iranian Hostage Crisis came into being. There was a very great possibility I could have jumped into Tehran during the last few months I was Active. To date Radio Tehran is the only thing I have heard that spouted more lies than President Obungler and Michael Moore combined. I was there and I was Ready to go. I definitely Earned my GI Bill and everything free that goes with it. You've earned your GI Bill for college. If you weren't shot at there was always a possibility you could be sent to a location where you Could Have Been Shot At. So enjoy the monies coming toward you. Enjoy them but don't go crazy with them. Seriously: Enjoy the GI Bill. 
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Posted: 3/20/2015 11:32:20 PM EDT
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Don't feel guilty one bit. I know I didn't when I went to school for my first degree (Automotive Tech) and sure as heck won't regret using the last approx. 11 months I have left for my second degree (BS in Education with an emphasis on social studies). It's something we as veterans earned working 12+ hour days for days (or weeks) on end, being deployed to who knows where, and having to sacrifice so much. When I got out of the service in 2009, I had friends who were freshmen in HS when I was a senior who were graduating college and getting nice jobs, houses, etc...I sacrificed that experience to serve and I don't regret it. I'll take whatever bennies I've earned for it.
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Posted: 3/21/2015 8:25:13 PM EDT
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Those benefits were and are a part of the contract you completed with your service. This does not qualify you for FSA status in any way. Those benefits were EARNED. Programs like this are used as incentives to get people to serve, so they are a part of the negociaton process from when you supplied the gov't with a blank check up to and including your life. Not using them is like leaving $ on the table, or like deciding on pay day when you were in the mil that they paid you more than your work deserved, and giving $ back. Period, fade to black.
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Posted: 3/23/2015 8:11:41 AM EDT
[#29]
You earned it and use it with no guilt.
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Posted: 3/23/2015 11:58:22 PM EDT
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I don't understand why this would even cross someone's mind.
BTW, the GI Bill, from its inception, has been a money maker for the federal government. On the average, recipients make much more money than they would have without the extra education and the govt. gets it back in spades as increased tax revenues. |
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Posted: 3/24/2015 12:35:09 AM EDT
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AOTPPNI = All of the previous posts nailed it.
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