No Joke I tried 3 or 4 ways to educate myself and succeed in America
Since 18 1994 enlisting in a Navy SAM Program that promised to send me to college and graduate by 22 which would turn into a commissioning. I got some kind of issue where I dropped out of college unable to concentrate.
They put me on SSDI in 2014 approximately which stated I could go to VOCREHAB.
I had wanted to pursue working on houses as I had learned rehab and building techniques when I would rent trade barter over the years to stay off the streets after the Navy.
VOCREHAB botched it created a deboical. A simple request to improve my life the way I saw fit with a place of education I thought I would be intrigued by was met with so much oddity. I lost interest. My health had really hit a wall.
At the Same time California and the United States in general has a boat load of money and resources in State and Federal Aid for people who jump the border looking for a better life.
Look at how much money they were scared to spend on me.
The California VOCREHAB actually did not do the fundamental 90 day processing of my claim. It took years to get a admission that this 90 day thing is on their own paper.
Look I am asking for support man trying to go to music school and need a damn tutor. I was put on probation. I am using my va money to pay my own way. But man the VA money is not that much.
The VA denied me any action to recoup a new GI Bill I could not utilize properly the first time around before I got screwed up on that ship they put me on when I was 18.
One shot and no second chances if they put you in extreme peril and derail your initial education and service plan, not the fault of your own.
I applied as the son of a Combat Veteran Vietnam 66-68 for DEA Dependent Education Assistance. But I was told in paper that there was a statute of limitations I missed by literally 1 year. I had to apply before my 26th birthday. My dad was under a bridge or something and not in va care until I was 28 just 2 years after my Navy career was terminated EOS honorably.
I had literally a lot of hopes for education fitting in gettin my life all together from a early age
Then you get put in some odd military experiences as a son of a combat vet or your own service and wonder why they wont now actually understand the reality and pick me up where I am and help me get to a goal.
If you spend decades just trying to rely on a system that says it cares but then somehow screws up, you might find yourself some how a bit off
I even applied for VOCREHAB and was led on a wild goose chase that lasted a year until I met a counselor that would not approve what I wanted to do which was go to music school
Music Therapy was on my mind. Denied