louierodriguez wrote:You'll be 23 when you finish. You could easily save 45k cash and have about 120k in GI Bill money. That's including housing stipend of about 60k and tuition money at 60k.
You will have served your country and will have learned lessons you can't learn elsewhere.
If I were you this is what I would do. 30 years from now you'll look back and wish you had done something like this.
and not for the money... just for the basic notion of having served your country
OP, if this is something you're interested in at all, the educational benefits are certainly awesome. When I signed up for the GI Bill twenty years ago, it was a good deal, but with the Post-9/11 GI Bill it's gotten exponentially better. More than half of the T30 schools (and more than half of the T14) are essentially free with the GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program. Can you imagine going to NYU or Columbia, having your tuition & fees 100% covered, AND getting a $30k/year housing allowance?
