Skeptic Bob
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2014
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- Location
- Texas
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian - Left
It was 20+ years ago, so things may have changed (certainly the numbers have, hopefully to scale with the economy) but my situation was:
GI Bill+College Fund (two different things when I was in, only combat arms got the GI Bill part)
I received $1000 per month while in school full time. A semester was 3.5 months and cost about $500 tuition at the community college. That left $3000 per semester for other expenses. That covered rent, food, gas... all my expenses.
The big selling points of the post-911 GI Bill are full tuition up to the most expensive public college of your state of residence and a housing allowance equivalent to the BAH for an E5 w/o dependents for the locality. And of course 100% transferability to a spouse or child. I know when I was in college I lived on a lot less than E5’s BAH.