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At the start of the spring semester in January at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a dozen military veterans waited for their GI Bill student benefit checks to show up.

Steve Woolford, a resource counselor for GI Rights Hotline, a nonprofit group that provides free, confidential information to service members, said calls from troops had gone down dramatically over the last month.

The daughter of an American GI, Williams was raised in a children's home and with a foster family in Tonyrefail, her brother said.

The construction boom, fueled by the GI Bill, quickly ends the epidemic in homelessness.

But she adds, other vets had "cross-trained" while in the service from other roles such as artillery or logistics, while others still used their GI Benefits to study security formally.