Military Recruitment Lie: Pentagon's Education Pitch is a Scam

By Aaron Glantz, The Nation
Posted on November 29, 2007, Printed on December 7, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/69200/

"Join the military and go to college." That's what the recruiters say.

But the deal that today's servicemen and servicewomen get is a far cry from what their fathers and grandfathers got. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill into law in the waning days of World War II, he saw it as part of his New Deal program. The law, officially called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, promised returning veterans that the government would pay the full cost of tuition and books at any public or private college or job-training program. It also provided unemployment insurance and loans to buy homes and start businesses.