As a veteran or active duty service member do you feel that your issues are being addressed?

Yes, vets who are legitimately injured and can prove service connection should be compensated, what troubles me is the generation of servicemembers gaming the system for disability, and there are LOTS. Where do we draw the line and say, "you're gonna have to suck it up and go earn for yourself". My family is full of vets who served in wartime, came home, and went to work. My grandfather ran a cattle farm with one arm. An awful lot of these "I can't work anymore" claims are laughable, but I see VA getting pressured into paying. I can name names of guys medically retired for PTSD related to working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier plus a few fabricated physical claims. I work for VA now, and I see crap like this daily. If anything, I think VA needs to tighten up the whole disability system. You're not entitled to retirement at 25 just because you were in the service, but a lot of post 9/11 guys seem to think that having been in uniform makes you some kind of victim. Our idiot pop culture reinforced this notion for 10+ years before we were forgotten by Obama hysteria. It sends a bad message and sets guys up for failure in life. I see drug addiction, suicide attempts. Yeah, they aren't happy because they aren't achieving anything in life. What kind of existence is smoking pot, playing Call of Duty, and waiting for the mail? Its become almost an epidemic for a certain demographic of vets.

You are reducing the military to a Social Service Agency. Can you accomplish your mission or are they babysitting you