[Mr. Freeze]

In no way BTDT as an SF Medic, just to preface this...

After I got out and job prospects didn't pan out, I started school and worked at my college VA office making sure GI Bill/VEAP or dependent benefits for other vets went as smooth as possible.

Anyway, an OKC LEO came in and wanted his AARTS and 214 eval'd for credit. MOS was 91B, late 80's-early 90's service. He wasn't pissed how little he would get, but just like anyone else who put in time, he was disappointed. So he said, "Well, look up 18D." Ignorant of the significance of that, I did. We looked, and they'll still look, up MOS or AFSC or rating in service-specific manuals, or ACE books, that list everything you can get advanced standing (credit) for depending on your military education. While it was significantly greater than 91B, I don't remember it being 84 hours. However, this could have been due to changes in licensure or curriculum. IIRC, it was more like 30. But I do distinctly remember 18D's getting 2 hours for "Emergency Veterinary Medicine", which I figured is an academic way to say "edited, and I better not see these words again.-TR"...

So you can probably access the current edition of the manual at a local college VA office, and see what the most accurate numbers are. Be aware that even if the book says you get 'em, if the school doesn't have a program that fits well, they get lumped in as electives. Which still saves you money, but shorts you because you can't count them all; a lot of programs are going to have upper-division req's for electives, which cost more, so they don't want to let you out of those as easy.

Something I have always wondered about though, does the pipeline show up on a 214? It sounded reasonable enough, but he said his 214 as a 91B essentially ended when he went SF; everything post-qual was kept at the JFK Center. It sounded fishy enough to make me wonder later, but just feasible enough to have been another esoteric aspect of SF.

Pulling back to Lurkerville,
Freeze