---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.3042"
title: "38"
number: "21.3042"
heading: "Service with Armed Forces."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.3042"
---

# §21.3042. Service with Armed Forces.

- (a) No educational assistance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 35 may be provided an otherwise eligible person during any period he or she is on duty with the Armed Forces. See § [21.3021 (e)](/cfr/38/21.3021.md?p=e) and [(f)](/cfr/38/21.3021.md?p=f). This does not apply to brief periods of active duty for training. See [§ 21.3135(f)](/cfr/38/21.3135.md?p=f).
- (b) If the eligible person served with the Armed Forces, his or her discharge or release from each period of service must have been under conditions other than dishonorable.

## Notes

### Amendments

[30 FR 15633, Dec. 18, 1965, as amended at 34 FR 842, Jan. 18, 1969; 36 FR 2508, Feb. 5, 1971; 41 FR 42929, Nov. 1, 1976; 61 FR 26109, May 24, 1996; 73 FR 30491, May 28, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), 512, 3500-3566, and as noted in specific sections.

### Amendments

[30 FR 15633, Dec. 18, 1965, as amended at 34 FR 842, Jan. 18, 1969; 36 FR 2508, Feb. 5, 1971; 41 FR 42929, Nov. 1, 1976; 61 FR 26109, May 24, 1996; 73 FR 30491, May 28, 2008]