Posted on May 31, 2016
Is it appropriate for a non-combat veteran to use the Vet Center and/or VA?
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So because I got hurt on active duty messed up my back in an accident and was discharged and was never deployed in a combat or support role I should not be compensated or have medical care from the VA after volunteering for the military and not being able to continue a career I wanted to pursue just like most of my family? That's messed up.
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There are a lot more ways to get fucked up in the military than enemy action. I'll even go way out on a limb gere abd say that people who are seriously maimed already get superb care compared to vets with more subtle problems. Vets who agve lost eyes and limbs get the 5 star treatment from the VA (as they should). It's the vets who have less visible problems, like hearing loss, migrains, bad knees, bad backs, etc. who have to pull teeth to get any compensation. And I think that's pure ass-covering on the part of the VA. They're terrified at the idea of the homeless vet in a wheelchair with both his legs missing having to panhandle to feed himself. That would look incredibly bad for them surging around Twitter.
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Sgt Carol Grisham
Yup. It took me 14 years, with the final 3 spent calling the Regional Office every business day to ask about my claim, to finally get my service-connection approved. My knee and back were blown while I was in and I finally went to the Ortho at Seattle and demanded that they just amputate the darn leg since it was as useless as a stick of wood as it was. Amazing how fast they jump to to find out what's wrong (botched surgery while I was in) when you make that kind of demand.
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Everyone earned that and more when they took the oath. No one should be penalized for government decisions on when and where you serve.
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I'm not sure why you asked this question. Regardless of whether or not a vet going to war, soldiers go through traumatic experiences due to anything. This is probably one of the most stupid question I've read. It's call the Vet center for a reason not "combat only Vets".
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SGT (Join to see)
I know Jinger. She's posting because a *lot* of fellow veterans have given her a ration of crap on a continuous basis because *they* went to combat, and *she* didn't. She served honorably and no one has any business giving her crap. Like the rest of us, she's earned her stripes. Leave her be. The question wasn't stupid. It was written in exasperation from treatment she's received at the hands of people that are *supposed* to be her Brothers and Sisters in Arms. People she's supposed to be able to trust have her back, in or out of uniform.
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I'm a non combat veteran, I happened to serve in between Nam and every other mess that's come our way to date. I went to school after my active duty and I bought a house using VA benefits. I don't feel I need to get shot at to earn that right, it's Vet benefits not Combst Vet benefits.
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Those two letters " VA" means Veterans Administration for all that served in the USA military. Some were ordered to a Combat Area of operation and others assigned elsewhere by headquarters. So yes, none Combat Veterans should be allowed to utilize the Veterans Administration.
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Who the F are you to cheapen ones service because they didn't experience combat? They signed the same line you did!
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