Lawmakers are taking another look at updating the veterans education assistance bill, with an eye toward equality for reservists. “The Montgomery GI Bill, as good as it is, does not reflect the realities facing today’s servicemembers, especially in the Guard and Reserve,” said Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Buyer added, “We must modernize the GI bill.” At a committee budget hearing earlier this month, he cited the efforts of a group of veterans organizations, jointly called the Partnership for Veterans Education. The partnership plan—Total Force MGIB—would, among other things, consolidate active and reserve programs under the VA.
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the Army War College last week, he mentioned changes to the way the military buys software alongside Golden Dome and the F-47 as key to his goal of “rebuilding the military.” And Lt. Gen. Luke C.G. Cropsey, who heads the Air Force’s most consequential…