Hey man, first of all, thank you for serving.

Well here is a little story for you and I hope it helps you out.

I've been in the military 9 years now, I'm also a grad from ERAU, but i didn't learned how to fly there. I did my courses thru erau at the military campus. Most of my time I was overseas. Well I'm in the army reserves right now, I currently hold a MOS of 11 bang bang, but I'm in a Drill SGT Unit.

I always wanted to fly and well I didn't do my reserch in the merilitary and went infantry, so a few years ago I decided to go ahead and start training no matter what. So I went down to Flight Safety Academy, great school, and great people there, well I got my pvt, instrument and multi there, and I used the GI BILL, It was not a bad gig, right now I'm in debt about 12k that's it. Well I decided to switch school to personal reasons and I'm at ATP in daytona right now, I enrolled in the new GI BILL Prog post 911, In order for me to go all the way to CFII I'm only going to need about 5k and everything is will be reimburst by the va, including examiners fee. So what I'm trying to tell you here is that is flying is what you want to do, go ahead and do it, follow your dreams and we do get a big reward for serving our country. The VA can be diffifcult most of the time, but they sure pay off.

Good Luck with everything. Keep us post it.