I hate to set a time in stone. When the veteran is ready to make that transition to vocational rehab, I think that needs to be the biggest factor. Because if you are not ready to go to school, you're not going to succeed. It's a whole different world out there. The military is much like school, but it is a much more rigid, different, and difficult school. It sets you up very well to be a student because the military has a set of protocols in place to ensure that you will learn and that you will take your education seriously, however, to get through those steps.
I remember it was quite difficult to transition to my initial phase in school. I had this wild and crazy experience in my young adult years that people around me did not have, so I feel there needs to be a decision. Whatever that time frame is, it needs to be lengthened, and it needs to be when the veteran is ready.
Who makes that determination? I don't want to say the veterans themselves, but I don't know how you would go about doing that.