To any staffer or policy maker, Chief of Staff (MM), please share with President Trump.

Veterans Benefits should NEVER expire, but they still do. Many US military veterans have life circumstances that prevent them from using their benefits immediately out of military service. I’m imploring to POTUS to continue fighting for us.

On Aug 16, 2017 President Trump signed the “Forever Post 9/11 GI Bill” creating lifetime benefits for only SOME veterans. These benefits should apply to ALL of our nations hero’s and never EXPIRE. If Nancy Pelosi and Chuckie Schumer can bail out failed Democratic states and the airlines, if Obama can bail out the crooked banks, the greatest nation on earth should be able to stand behind their heroes and ensure they get the benefits they earned!

When President Trump signed the bill in 2017, these crooked lawmakers KNEW any veterans that still had remaining benefits from their service, would find them expired by using Jan 1, 2013 as an expiration date and Sept 11, 2001 as a qualified service date. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn Chair of House Committee on Veterans Affairs falsely claimed “This legislation will enable veterans to use the education benefits they’ve earned through the GI Bill when and how it suits them best, setting them up for future success in whatever career they pursue.” What he meant was “SOME” veterans. You may have been serving your country on 9-11 and find yourself without any benefits, while those who served after you enjoy a lifetime benefit.

MY STORY: I along with the crew of USS Princeton (CG-59) deployed April 3, 2001 to support the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group which included flight operations over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. We were sitting of the coast of Pakistan, approximately 12nm from their border when we saw the towers come down on the video screens inside Combat Information Center. I stood watch with sailors who saw their families die in real time. I along with my crew of more than 325 personnel then conducted sustained flight operations and delivering tomahawk justice over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. For those of us who returned home after our enlistment, we find ourselves cut out of the Post 9/11 GI BILL 10 years and then 3 years later.

We should not be putting a time limit on benefits (period). If your service ended before Jan 1, 2013, your Post 9-11 GIB Bill benefits now expire 15 years after your separation date. They used to expire at 10 years, and then they added a measly 3 years. How convenient they expire around the same time a dependent becomes an adult, meaning once an empty nester and having sacrificed yourself for your children, you discover you can no longer use your VA benefits. Pardon me as I digress.

I’ll take this one step further, we should not be qualifying ANY benefit to when a service member served (period). That includes our heroes from Vietnam, Korea, etc. Dividing us up into identity groups is the left’s tactics of control. Do not let them get away with it with our veterans. If we can print money and hand it over to big banks, we can at least thank our veterans for their service.

(not mine-but signed) https://www.petition2congress.com/ctas/veteran-gi-bill-education-benefits-should-not-expire-after-10-yea

https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/post-9-11/