Military service members, veterans, and certain dependents and survivors can receive financial support for postsecondary education and technical training. Veterans' educational benefits can include tuition and fees, housing allowances, and stipends for books and supplies (Radford 2011; Radford et al. 2016). Veterans' education benefits are provided primarily through two programs, the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (also known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill). The number of veterans who receive veterans' education benefits increased after the Post-9/11 GI Bill went into effect. The total number of veterans' education beneficiaries--including active duty service members, veterans, and their families--grew by 93 percent between 2009 and 2013 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2017). However since 2013, the number of beneficiaries has declined from a high of 1,091,044 to 893,725 in 2018 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2017, 2019). The purpose of this Statistics in Brief is to compare and contrast the characteristics of military students who receive federal veterans' education not benefits and military students who do receive such benefits. This descriptive analysis adds to the existing literature on military students and the use of veterans' education by using data from the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16).