GI Bill during I.R.R. Status

[SGT Bart]

title says it all. I've served in the Guard for 6 years, and now I am just starting my I.R.R. status. I was recieving title 1607 when I was a TDY solider, from my deployment overseas to a combat area....do I still get G.I. Bill?

any info posted, mucho gracious!

[matthew.ritchie]

[QUOTE=SGT Bart]title says it all. I've served in the Guard for 6 years, and now I am just starting my I.R.R. status. I was recieving title 1607 when I was a TDY solider, from my deployment overseas to a combat area....do I still get G.I. Bill?

any info posted, mucho gracious![/QUOTE]


In a word, no. Chapters 1606 and 1607 require active participation (i.e., drilling status).

[SGT Bart]

That was my understanding, Thanks for the quick post sir! Your too good.

[SteveLord]

You can go back to drilling, but you'll have to go through the re-enlistment process allover. Same paperwork. (front of the line at MEPS, but still take half the day)

[CPT Burritt]

You should be eligible for the post 9/11 GI Bill. With one deployment after 9/11 totalling 12 months (but less than 18 months) you'd be eligible at 60% of the total benefit.

Call your local GI Bill manager to assist you in setting it up.

[SGT Bart]

Can anyone post the Virginia GI Bill education office or education officers number? I am at work until late this evening and have no access to search engines and such here at work but would like to call them A.S.A.P. since I have been I.R.R. status the past several months but the chance that I could still have been award partial G.I. Bill money.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out and post the contact number or P.M. it.

[SteveLord]

Sent you PM.

[CPT Burritt]

Its on [url]www.virtualarmory.com[/url].

[SGT Bart]

[QUOTE=CPT Burritt]You should be eligible for the post 9/11 GI Bill. With one deployment after 9/11 totalling 12 months (but less than 18 months) you'd be eligible at 60% of the total benefit.

Call your local GI Bill manager to assist you in setting it up.[/QUOTE]

I was deployed for a year with the guard, Title 32 overseas after 9/11. Read that i'm not eligable....what a bummer....:mad:

[KMANinTX]

[QUOTE=SteveLord]You can go back to drilling, but you'll have to go through the re-enlistment process allover. Same paperwork. (front of the line at MEPS, but still take half the day)[/QUOTE]

There is NO front of the line....just there Monday....:mad:
Fall in with everyone else.

[Marine2Guard]

[QUOTE=KMANinTX]There is NO front of the line....just there Monday....:mad:
Fall in with everyone else.[/QUOTE]
That sucks, I got front of the line when I went.

[0844]

[QUOTE=KMANinTX]There is NO front of the line....just there Monday....:mad:
Fall in with everyone else.[/QUOTE]

Yup, it's true. I got to skip ahead a little, though, because I was the only one ready to pee at the appointed time.

[SteveLord]

[QUOTE=KMANinTX]There is NO front of the line....just there Monday....:mad:
Fall in with everyone else.[/QUOTE]

Whoever said all MEPS staff had common sense? :rolleyes:

[KMANinTX]

Maybe for my case it had to do with being 40.........:confused:
Either way, I was done by noon. I did think it was run fairly well. Everything seemed to fall in right behind each other. pee-test, ortho, etc,etc...I was impressed how smooth it went.

Oh, remember now, head of the line for everything was people shipping that day.