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by Hal Donahue @ January 2nd, 2011 RSS Link

Question:

I’m working at a distribution center for a national retail firm. I received my Army discharge 18 months ago. My buddies, who got out around the same time, are either in college or college-bound using their GI Bill benefits. Am I missing something? What is veteran experience with the GI Bill? Thank you, Teddy.

Answer:

Teddy, you are in luck. Detailed answers to your question are coming in. You do appear to be missing a wildly popular benefit. More than 500,000 veterans signed up to use the GI Bill. A new report out clearly shows that the new and improved Post 9-11 GI Bill is influencing not just going to school but also, which schools GI’s are elect to attend.

Your GI Bill benefits are a tremendous advantage worth a significant amount of money. Once, I thought that a college and university education were not for everyone. As correct as I was then, I am wrong now. Further education is for nearly everyone. For three reasons:

1. Changing World

As long as man is writing and probably much longer, a constant complaint is the rapidly changing world. The information taught in primary and secondary schools is being overcome by events. The health care field is a classic example where a medical professional is no longer qualified to practice without continuing education. But it isn’t just the professional. That distribution center where you are working no longer even resembles the humble warehouse that was its origin. If you cannot keep abreast, you may become obsolete quickly.

2. Changing Education

College education is changing rapidly. Schools that used to teach technical careers still teach for the same careers. However, more and more, the level of work required rises to the college level and degrees are awarded to students. You may not realize it but more than likely many of your tasks at work involve college level education. Layout, inventory control and scheduling of deliveries and shipments come immediately to mind.

3. Personal Independence

Our society is changing rapidly and while education is no guarantee of employment, the individual with the ability to learn is at an advantage when seeking employment. The ability to read and to write well seem to be the seeds from which success grows. Having reviewed thousands of resumes, business proposals and plans in my life, I can tell you that reading and writing are major indicators of success. If you do nothing else with your GI Bill benefits, enroll in liberal arts courses which should develop both skills. Most veterans prefer not to be at the whim of an employer and the economy. By developing real skills, employers are more likely to want to hire or retain you.

Many veterans retain unpleasant memories of their high school experience. Do not confuse college education with primary or secondary education. If there is any doubt visit, your local college or university and ask to sit in a few classrooms to observe classes or look at online education. You are a valuable commodity, a fully funded student. Many colleges want you. Enroll to take classes that interest you. An incredible array of classes and degree programs exist; something might arouse your curiosity.

Don’t waste your GI Bill benefits. Use them to learn and to enrich your life. You may enjoy your present situation. A degree is an option opening many pathways to the future if your current satisfaction changes.

Breech grooms Henry; Henry brooms Breech.(Ford 100)

Automotive News June 15, 2003 Byline: Jeff Mortimer Rumors had been in the wind for years. More and more, it was Robert S. McNamara rather than Ernest Breech who had Henry Ford II’s ear.

More and more, Hank the Deuce countermanded Breech’s orders and upstaged him at meetings, most famously at a senior management retreat at the Greenbriar in West Virginia in 1958 when he followed Breech’s remarks with his own – and significantly different – vision for the company’s future, a vision he had discussed with his board chairman in advance. “I am the captain of the ship,” he concluded, “and I intend to remain captain as long as my name is on the bow.” Henry Ford II even took away Breech’s Detroit Lions tickets. The tandem that had steered Ford Motor Co.’s reinvention as a modern corporation was coming apart, and only one of the men was named Ford. On July 13, 1960, the one who wasn’t resigned.

Henry II had been 28 and president for less than a year when he had hounded Breech, 21 years his senior, into coming to work for him. But that was 14 years earlier, and he was finding the relationship increasingly irritating, especially after Breech was elevated from executive vice president to board chairman in 1955. That meant it was Breech, not Henry, who acted as company spokesman at the shareholders’ annual meeting. this web site detroit lions tickets go to web site detroit lions tickets

`Almost a father’ Henry Ford II toppled the man he later described to one Ford chronicler as “almost a father” to him – the man who, it was generally understood, had run the company, even as he schooled Henry II in how to do it himself. “My job was to teach Henry,” Breech said, “and he was a good learner.” The degree of sensitivity with which the deed was done – and even the question of whether Breech fell on his sword – continues to be debated by historians. The company line always has been that Henry II ended the suspense one day by saying, “Ernie, I’ve graduated.” Others say Hank the Deuce couldn’t bring himself to do it, and it was Breech who said: “Henry, now you’ve come of age. You want to take over, and I want to step aside.” Henry was The Man In any event, Henry Ford II was ready. The story about Breech’s exit on the front page of Automotive News noted that his departure was “unexpected” and was generally upbeat. It focused on his achievements and his continuing role with the company. The finance committee was invented largely to give Breech its chairmanship. But it also was clear that Hank the Deuce was now The Man – president and chairman.

He held both jobs for less than four months before naming McNamara president, but the latter was in office even more briefly before becoming secretary of defense for President John Kennedy.

Flummoxed by this turn of events, Henry II tried to lure back his old mentor. Breech politely declined, saying he was happily retired. A few weeks later, he joined Trans World Airlines.

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Ernest Breech, left, said of Henry Ford II: “My job was to teach Henry, and he was a good learner.”

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