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Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, however, are reserved only for those with a fully honorable discharge.

Those low tuition costs and high earnings — along with his GI Bill benefits and a federal Pell Grant — will enable Roa to graduate debt free and transform the future of his family.

Rao, for one, could not afford to go straight to college from high school and did not want to go into debt, so he enlisted in the Navy — in part to qualify for the GI Bill benefits that would pay for his education.

In mining country, a coal miner was like a decorated GI.

But afterwards, having not enjoyed his post-war work as an office clerk, he joined his sister and her American GI husband in New York, where he attended a theatre school.