Coming home from the military

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My nephew is a counselor for veterans ( he ex-military himself) at a college. Part of his job is to get them to use their GI benefits to enrol in the school and the main part is to hold their hands and get them through their classes. He is very frustrated. These are guys who did not necessarily get their brains scrambled by an IED. They may well have spent 4 years on a carrier steaming around the middle of the Pacific but they get out of the military and find that the skills which they had or learned are damn near useless in the civilian sector. The myth he is running into is that they have the discipline to buckle down and succeed, but they drop out or flunk out in droves. For far too many of them they never had the academic background to make it in college - that's why they ended up in the military in the first place. It is a major national problem.