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Most Americans can agree that veterans should have more education benefits (the existing G.I. Bill provides a significant range of benefits). But Sen. Jim Webb's proposed expansion of the G.I. Bill would provide the full range of benefits after only three years, thus eliminating one of the most valuable incentives to troop retention. Under current law, the full benefits vest only after six years, which means that soldiers who have served three years and are facing a second deployment--the most valuable soldiers in the military--have an incentive to stay through that deployment in order to get their college tuition ...