The VR&E Field Manual

You served your country. Now learn how to navigate the system designed to help you build your future.

Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E), also known as Chapter 31, can offer life-changing opportunities for eligible veterans with service-connected disabilities. But understanding how to apply, establish entitlement, develop an approved vocational plan, secure funding, and challenge an unfavorable decision can be overwhelming.

The VR&E Field Manual is a practical, veteran-to-veteran guide written by U.S. Army combat veteran Joey Prince, drawing on firsthand experience navigating the program.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Navigate VR&E applications, evaluations, and entitlement decisions.
• Build a comprehensive vocational rehabilitation and training packet.
• Understand employment handicap and vocational feasibility.
• Prepare education, equipment, technology, and funding requests.
• Understand subsistence allowances and GI Bill coordination.
• Navigate counselor communications, approvals, delays, and denials.
• Use Title 38 regulations and VA's M28C guidance.
• Organize evidence and prepare for available review and appeal procedures.

With 24 chapters, 18 practical worksheets, worked examples, and regulatory reference appendices, this field manual goes beyond explaining the program. It shows you how to prepare, document, and advocate for your vocational goals.

Same Mission. Different Battlefield.

Know the regulations. Build the evidence. Document the process. Protect your future.

An independent educational publication. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.