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Army Veteran Refuses Call To Deploy To Iraq. →
At this point in the war, a conscientious objector story is to be expected. What I didn’t expect, however, was to find out that the Army’s pitch to disadvantaged teens — We’ll pay for college! — doesn’t actually add up:
After the Army, Matthis Chiroux assumed the GI Bill benefits he earned would help pay for college but was “horrified” to learn in January that because of his salary in the Army and his stationing overseas, he was going to be denied federal and state tuition assistance. He also found out that he was not eligible for subsidized student loans because of his GI Bill benefits.
In the end, his benefits as a veteran totaled around $1,000 a month, not even enough to pay for his apartment in Brooklyn. If Chiroux had not served in the military, he said he would have been eligible for Pell Grants that might have helped him pay the $7,500 he laid out in January for school. A Veterans Administration representative at his college told him that his struggle to pay tuition was a typical story for young veterans.
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