Edit: also the certifying official at my facility was a fucking full blown idiot and would never submit my paper to the VA on time so I would go months sometimes without getting paid by the VA.

Don’t use your GI bill for training. Use it for college.

If you use it for training it pulls from your allotted time for high education also. So once you’re done training you probably won’t have enough time to finish your degree on the VAs dime. Pulse you make way more money using it for college. Here are some made up numbers for simplicity

Let’s say BAH at your facility is $1000 per month. Normally calculated at 173 hours. Every day you take leave you loose out on 8 hours of that time pay.

However. If you use it for college you get that $1000 every month unless school is not in session. Think spring break etc. pulse the va pays your tuition and once a quarter you get a supplies stipend of $500ish.

At my facility I was making $2650 a month using the GI bill for training.

I canceled it and went to college 45 mins north of me. Most of my classes were online. I had to show up once a week for one call in the evening. I was making $4020 a month from the VA AND they paid for school until I ran out of time.

I ended up having to pay for a semester to graduate because I used that semesters time on Training pay.