Ntl Guard served 729 not 730 get screwed out of money for school. This admin is BS

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741


National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War






MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge.




1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.

"It's pretty much a slap in the face," Anderson said. "I think it was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership failure by the senior Washington leadership... once again failing the soldiers."

Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days.

Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more, the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

"Which would be allowing the soldiers an extra $500 to $800 a month," Anderson said.

That money would help him pay for his master's degree in public administration. It would help Anderson's fellow platoon leader, John Hobot, pay for a degree in law enforcement.

"I would assume, and I would hope, that when I get back from a deployment of 22 months, my senior leadership in Washington, the leadership that extended us in the first place, would take care of us once we got home," Hobot said.

Both Hobot and Anderson believe the Pentagon deliberately wrote orders for 729 days instead of 730. Now, six of Minnesota's members of the House of Representatives have asked the Secretary of the Army to look into it -- So have Senators Amy Klobuchar and Norm Coleman.

On NBC News with Brian Williams. Malloy also discussed this earlier this week. Shocking!!

SOP.

Sucked then, sucks now.

File under "Catch 22".

:grr:

the DoD is merciless.

But, considering this is the NG, this is especially egregious.

Hence, my outrage.

I don't think I knew this about your Son.

Damn them all.

Bastards.

by depriving those that earned it so that it can be given to Halliburton and Blackwater.

My son's OIF Orders stated he would be deployed for 726 days!!

He doesn't know if he's being denied yet.

He hasn't tried to buy a house on the GI Bill yet.

Although I've been encouraging him to do just that!

So far, he did get a little screwed on the GI Bill Veterans Education part
but I think he didn't understand what his role was...I'm not sure, at this point.

because of the time difference. Considering they served in Iraq which is ahead of us--their time should be calculated from the time they left stateside to to the time they left Iraq. Surely there is an ingenious attorney out there that could make a case for this.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

But I haven't heard a peep out of him.

I just hate this admin more and more with each thing we find out

http://patdollard.com/2007/10/06/video-national-guard-troops-who-created-john-carrystuck-in-irak-sign-denied-benefit

Wonder how they feel now.

hard not to say anything