can i still use my GI Bill if i get an honorable discharge?
81573
Yes as long as you have completed 36 months of a 4 yr assignment. As the previous have said, you have 10 yrs from the date of your ETS to utilize it.
1112079
Speeking as someone with prior service, yes they will, but MAKE SURE you get everything in writing.  If you have any doubts, have a lawyer look it over.  I love and respect the armed forces, but they can take advantage of you if your not carefull.  Good Luck.
128817
"For the Good of the Service" is right, but not good.  Anything other than an Honorable Discharge will haunt you for the rest of your life.
1138248
Military wives can use their husbands GI Bill funds to go to college but you need to file the paperwork for it. \n\nFor the others who asked yes the husbands and children can use it too. \n\nYou don't really go to college free but they do pay a large portion of the tuition but ddon't surprised if you are still responsible for some of the costs.
804423
It all depends on how the commanding officer wants to handle it.\n\nYou can get an Article 15, which will probably order a court martial (as for a special if it is not handed over to a General and get a real live lawyer).  The court martial can kick you out, give you big time brig time, both - being kicked out after the brig time, all but being hanged or turned loose if you are found guilty.  \n\nYour discharge will be Dishonorable, you will get no VA benefits and things like that.  It can hurt employment, cost you money because of lost salary because of the Dishonorable, etc.\n\nFour years in the Navy working for JAG as a Legal Clerk and Court Reporter.
705219
Nope, will not happen. Even if you get a mental discharge. It is other than honorable...which is crap. How much time you have left? Hang in there. Be over before you know it.\n\nEDIT: I know your pain.....I went into the Navy at 26...i completely see and understand all you are saying. Hang in there. Most of the younger bucks lose face when they start acting all big and bad. Don;t worry about it. \n\nBut, remember: You face the same thing in the real world. I work at an Engineering firm now. And my BOSS is a 23 year old brat.
502326
Psych discharge was once the easy way out, but they recently made a rule that even socio-paths are not immune to deployment.  A fun way is setting up a homosexual act that a third-party soldier catches you on tape.  This is a general discharge that is upgraded to honorable after one year.  "Food for Freedom" also no longer works, and is bad for your health.\n\nYou can also refuse to take your vast smorgasbord of innoculations they try to force into your arm.  They'll scare you with all kinds of legal stuff, but a quick trip to the JAG office will set you straight on what they really can do to you.
964368
It depends on what branch you were in.  I was in the Army, I got the kicker and the Army College Fund so right now I am sitting at about $1800 a month.  The GIBill was not designed for you to live off of and pay tuition.  If your tuition is very expensive you can opt for accelerated payments but you really need to have some outrageous tuition to get this.  Basically they beef up your payments every month but it is still probably not going to be much.  Plus your GIBill will run out quicker.  \n\nYou can hook up with a guard or reserve unit and they may be able to give you an extra couple hundred a month extra onto your GIBill plus whatever pay check you pull for drilling.  I think in my area it is about an extra $200 a month.\n\nI don't want to be a buzzkill but the GIBill was only set up to be used for tuition, not living expenses.  I moved from California to Alabama so I could live off of my GIBill.  Look into the Pell Grant next year.  I know plenty of GIBill recipients who get a few grand every semester because their GIBill is not counted on financial aid.    The military expects you to save up money in the service then get out and get the GIBill.
1170310
He might as well just stay where he is. He wont be able to get out completly with an honorable discharge. If he were to switch to another branch (very difficult to do, you should contact your local recruiting station) his time would restart and he would end up staying in the armed forces longer.
982800
There a few classes of Dishcharges  listed in order from best to worst\n\n1. Honorable\n2. General\n3. Other than Honorable\n4. Dishornorable.\n\nThe first two are basically the same except for the fact the General throws up flags for employers and they might want to know why. Other than Honorable is usually what they give your for getting in trouble for minor stuff (failed urinalysis, failure to follow instructions or being AWOL.) A Dishonorable is pretty bad its a Felony Conviction and will haunt you for the rest of your life. As far as benefits go, im not really sure, but at the time of your seperation for Other than Honorable you can negotiate your benefits, as far as medical and disablity type issues but no GI bill.
522784
Apply for a hardship discharge.
661539
If you are convicted of going AWOL/deserting and the punishment for that offence includes discharge from the service then yes I think the discharge would be dishonourable.\n\nHowever it is possible that the sentence would not include discharge. If this was the case then you would continue in the service, after serving whatever punishment was administered, and your subsequent discharge would not necessarily be dishonourable.
327892
Don't know anything about the Navy... But I've done 15 years in the Army now... And when I have a soldier that is getting out I make him write down all the reasons he's getting out... then I tell them to put it in their wallet and before they go back into a recruiters office... pull it out and read it... If they still come back... good for them... if not then good for them...  \n\nAny way... \n\nI say if it's so hard a decision for you... then don't make it... stay where you are... You've done your bit for God and Country... nothin wrong with being a civilian... just make sure you get something out of it... USE YOUR GI BILL!! get some edu-macation!!! Get that job that you swore you could get that paid you a lot more than you made 'swabbin the decks' in the Navy!!! \n\nBottom Line: \n\nGOOD LUCK, GOD BLESS, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE \n\nNEXT!!!!
603914
that service has probably been paying your bills lately!\nHe took an oath and has to go unless he declares himself a conscientious objector in which case he will be discharged.  He will be out of a job and thus out of a paycheck for you (too).  So, unless you are independently wealthy and can afford that lack of money, he should be going.  Believe me, there are few companies who hire objectors because he will be believed to leave any other job just as fast when the going get rough.
530233
No.  You have to pay into the GI Bill for one (1) year before it is paid off.  That's active duty time. \n\nIf you are active duty, you have to complete your first term of enlistment before you can access your GI Bill.\n\nIf you are National Guard, or Reserve, then there will be some time line to complete before you can access it, but I don't know what the time line is. \n\nBottom line:  No, you will not be able to access the GI bill immediately after Basic.\n\nIf you are talking about SIGNING up for the GI Bill after Basic, then again, the answer is NO.  There may be a program in the future that you could sign up for retroactively, but if you want the college money, sign up for it immediately.
1040683
So you are going to refuse a medically-necessary medical procedure in an attempt to get a medical discharge.\n\nWhat you are going to do is wind up with a permanent injury to your arm and a 'non-service-connected' rating from the VA.  \n\nAfter your surgery your doctor will give you a profile.  This will say what you can and cannot do. Give a copy of the profile to your 1SG and talk to him about it.  This way, if somebody tries to make you violate your profile you can go to top and get him to straighten things out.
1117007
Try this site, I know with my Veteran's Grant (separate from GI BILL for veterans of Illinois) we had only 10 years from our discharge to use it, but I'm not sure about the GI Bill, but this is the GI Bill homepage below