Many career military people feel there should be two ties of veterans, with the top tier being those who spent an entire career in the military. Those who served a few years and got out would be entitled to fewer, less generous benefits regarding home loans, education, etc. In other words, "I'm a real veteran and you're not!" Where have we heard this before. You guessed it, from John McCain, when he refused to support an expanded GI Bill for vets who served after he did. People like this give me heartburn because I went to college on the old GI Bill, and I see no reason we should not offer similar benefits to today's veterans. Particularly when you consider the way we send them all over the world to fight phony, unnecessary wars.

but got shot at or dodged IEDs, etc? Don't they deserve better consideration than a 20 year vet who rode a desk or received flying lessons so they could move cargo from Fort Hood to Fort Benning, then get a commercial pilot's job?

Way too much hair splitting and cowardice. Politicians are freaking cowards who won't ask the wealthy (who had more assets protected by the military) to ante up for the promised benefits.

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Vets don't deserve any more education benefits than anyone else. Military service has nothing to do with higher education. Make it available and affordable for everyone.

I'd say that they deserve them.