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Show Education and Training for Veterans Of Korean War; Who Is Eligible (Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles on Education Educa-tion and Training for Korean veterans vet-erans under the Korean GI Bill). More than 2,000,000 servicemen and women, with service since the start of the Korean conflict, have now been discharged to civilian ci-vilian life and have become "Korean "Ko-rean Veterans." Another 70 to 80 thousand are being seperated from the services each month. Many of these Korean veterans veter-ans also had service in World War II, but the large majority had not had military service prior to the beginning of the Korean conflict June 27, 1950. These veterans are eligible for education and training under the Korean (II Kill. Those Korean veterans, with World War II service ser-vice also, may bo eligible under remaining entitlement through the World War II '.! Bill, or may be eligible under the Korean JI Bill. Althoiii'li it 1 '.-!! become known as the K . ' Bill, the benefits bene-fits are not limited to those who saw action in the fighting front in Korea. Veterans who served anv ! lace in the world after June 27." 1 !).-)(!. may be eligible, if he meets the following requirements: require-ments: 1. Has other th. n a dishonorable dishonor-able discharge; 2. Had at least W davs total active service after June 27. l'Jol), unless discharged sooner for an actual service-incurred disability. A veteran is allowed one and one-half clays training for each day spent in service on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to the end of the present emergency. The maximum is 3G months. The Korean veteran who also had entitlement from his service in World War II must subtract the period of training he already had from 48 months. His entitlement entitle-ment under the Korean GI Bill may not exceed this difference. Also, it must come within the 36-month limit, and may not ex-ceed ex-ceed his entitlement based on his services. For flight trainees, entitlen.ent will be used up at the rate of one day for each $1.25 paid them as training allowances. A veteran discharged before Aug. 20. 1952, must begin training train-ing before Aug. 10, 1951. Those discharged after Aug. 20. 1952. have two years from date of discharge dis-charge or separation in which to begin. The veteran should first divide upon a specific goal either educational, edu-cational, professional or vocational voca-tional choose the type of train ing to help him reach that nal, and then select a school (,r training train-ing establishment that offers the type of training he will need His educational goal might be a diploma, degree or certificate. certifi-cate. A professional goal might be law. medicine or some other profession. A vocational goal would be tlie job the training leads to, such as steamfitter or machinist, or in any trade. Such courses as bartending, dancing or personality development develop-ment are prohibited by law. However, How-ever, other "so-called avocation-al avocation-al or recreational" courses may be approved if the veteran submits sub-mits justification to VA that the course will be of use in his present pres-ent or future business. VA approval ap-proval should be obtained before starting the course. (Next week: Applying training, train-ing, and payments to Veterans.). |