of those unemployed veterans are those older ones. it is a horrible economy. they come back and say i served my country in the first persian gulf, i am now jobless, what can i do to get myself back in there? as we sit here and look at this, as we look at today s problems we have to realize today s problems also deal with previous war periods, and we can t forget those who previously served and service them while we are trying to take care of the new veterans because those are the ones that we need to overall impact. why are young vets not signing up for the va, do you think? i think the va has a serious outreach problem. only 47% of iraq and afghanistan veterans are enrolled in the va. the average age of our member is 28 years old. i think the va has to realign their entire business model, find these veterans where they are and use social media, facebook and twitter more aggressively than they are right now and advertise their products. most people aren t aware of the gi bene
because those are the ones that we need to overall impact. why are young vets not signing up for the va, do you think? i think the va has a serious outreach problem. only 47% of iraq an afghanistan veterans are enrolled in the va. the average age of our member is 28 years old. i think the va has to realign their entire business model, find these veterans where they are and use social media, facebook and twitter more aggressively than they are right now and advertise their products. most people aren t aware of the gi benefits, they don t know about va home loan opportunities. va has great products and services to offer but they have a really hard time finding them. that s why they need to partner more aggressively with groups like ours and other organizations at the local level to push out their resources and connect with those vets. how do you think the va is doing at this point in terms of getting benefits in some reasonable time to those who have signed up? horribly. they re