Every video, with what it says written out
College Tool is a free-to-start app that shows a military family how the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Chapter 35 DEA, the Fry Scholarship and the Yellow Ribbon Program fit into one plan, and what the order of use changes.
College Tool: A GI Bill® App for Military Families That Shows Its Work
College Tool shows a student what their GI Bill® benefits actually become before they pick a school.
We Got You 1776: Plan Around Your Education Benefits
We Got You 1776, LLC is a Veteran-founded education-technology company that builds tools helping military families plan their education benefits.
College Tool App Tour: Benefits, School Search, Overseas, Cost of Living and the Printed Plan
The tour shows how a family's VA education benefits fit into one plan and the order to use them.
College Tool Privacy: No Account. No Tracking.
No account. No tracking. What you type stays on your phone unless you share it.
Where College Tool Came From
College Tool started with a military family doing this math by hand at the kitchen table. The phase approach came from there, and so did tying the figures to their sources, because the family doing the math had to check the sources themselves.
The Order Matters: A Plain-Language Guide to VA Education Benefits, October 2026 Edition
The Order Matters is a plain-language guide to VA education benefits for military families, free to read and free to download.
The order a family uses its VA education benefits in can change the total. College Tool is free to start, with no account, and a one-time purchase unlocks the full phase approach.
Each video has its own page carrying the full description and, where one exists, the complete transcript, written out so anyone and anything reading this site can find what was actually said.
We Got You 1776 is independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense, and nothing it publishes is financial, legal, tax or benefits advice.
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