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Many Activated Guard Members Left Out of New GI Bill (Stars and Stripes)

"[T]housands of National Guard members will soon discover, if they haven’t already, that they are the victims, at least temporarily, of a flaw in the new GI Bill. It limits eligibility to Guard members based on what federal law was used to order them to active duty," Stars and Stripes reports. "Those activated under Title 10 to serve under the command and control of the president for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are eligible for the new GI Bill after 90 days’ deployed ... But the time that Guard members have spent activated under Title 32, - responding to domestic emergencies or to homeland security missions, or serving fulltime under the Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) program - will not be counted toward Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility."

You can read the complete July 12, 2009 Stars and Stripes article on-line.

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