As the Aug. 1 launch date nears for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, more people are realizing they won’t be able to share education benefits with their families. One of the requirements to transfer benefits to a spouse or children is that the service member must still be in the military Aug. 1 — bad news for people about to separate or who have already separated. Air Force Lt. Col. Lisa Henry-Hamilton, dean of academics at the Defense Language Institute’s Foreign Language Center, will miss the Aug. 1 date because she has a previously approved July 1 retirement date that it is too late to change. Already on terminal leave while awaiting the end of her 23-year career, Henry-Hamilton feels cheated. “I might have changed my date if I had known this,” she said in response to the Pentagon’s announcement last week of how transfer rights will work.

Wasn't the Post 9/11 bill named that for a reason? Or was this whole bill just another way for the government to mess with those who give the most? Up till last week it was wide spread knowledge that you could transfer rights to your children to use your GI bill. Now you must jump through three flamming hoops standing on one foot while looking to the nortwest on a full moon. do you find the new restrictions to be fair?

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