Exactly. The goal of the regulation isn't to prevent veterans from learning to code, it's to prevent them for being preyed upon. The OP has an unexamined prem

Exactly. The goal of the regulation isn't to prevent veterans from learning to code, it's to prevent them for being preyed upon. The OP has an unexamined premise: that the "code camps" described are an effective entry point for a programming career. As the readers on Hacker News are well aware, that's a pretty shaky premise.