Posted on Dec 27, 2017
Should Veterans feel bad about being awarded and receiving VA disability compensation for non-combat related injuries?
436K
7.82K
1.64K
928
928
0
Disabled Veterans
Compensation
Disability
Combat
Injuries
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 886
23
23
0
Veterans should NOT Feel BAD about being AWARDED ANY VA Disability Rating! Unless the Injury was inflicted while NOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY! Come On, the Military is a 24 hour a day, 365 Day a Year Obligation. So if the Veteran was "IN THE LINE OF DUTY" and Injury is an INJURY. Not worth a Question is my opinon.
(23)
(0)
23
23
0
If you work a civilian job and God Bless USA, sking and brake your back your insurance takes care of it, if you're in the service same thing happens VA is only choice you have. So no I don't think ppl should feel bad.
(23)
(0)
22
22
0
I had an American Legion rep explain the VA disability to me. He said that when we went in, we were strong and healthy. Part of the government’s promise was to restore us to society in the same health we were in when our time of service was up. Sadly, the needs of the service took its toll on us and we have been damaged. No one should feel bad that they have a disability rating from the VA. My years of sea duty would have been just as rough had it been in war or peace.
I think what I object to is the concurrent receipt issue of lowering retirement pay on non combat related injuries below a 50% rating. There should be no distinction.
I think what I object to is the concurrent receipt issue of lowering retirement pay on non combat related injuries below a 50% rating. There should be no distinction.
(22)
(0)
(2)
(0)
CPO Bernie Penkin
I wasn’t comparing it to real combat and understand the difference. We all served even those who watched and waited. I am against concurrent receipt. As far as disability is concerned, retirement pay should not be reduced based on where a person sustained the injury.
(2)
(0)
22
22
0
So if PVT Snuffy is in a track, and it overturns and he breaks his neck in Fort Lost in the middle of Nowhere training area, he doesn't deserve healthcare for this? Kind of a raw deal don't you think. If 2LT Smith is cripple from jumping off the tower at Fort Benning during Airborne Training, and is paralyzed for life, because it wasn't in the face of armed combatants they don't deserve Healthcare and VA Benefits? The guys on a sub who are exposed to high levels of radiation through no fault of their own don't deserve healthcare? Or the Grunt who is road marched with that excessive load every Friday for "training" has his discs go south for life doesn't deserve care?
(22)
(0)
22
22
0
No, if service related, but I would hope that those conditions are not as a result of their own careless acts or bad personal choices.
(22)
(0)
SPC Woody Bullard
Excellent comment and very true. Bad personal choices happen too often.
I witnessed those bad choices made by some of my brother soldiers.
I witnessed those bad choices made by some of my brother soldiers.
(6)
(0)
CPT Earl George
Had a PFC in my platoon ,who drunker than a skunk ,run and did a swan dive out a second floor window of the billets one night. He screwed himself up so he was not able to do his normal job for 6 months. I completed a line of duty investigation on him the next day.
(5)
(0)
SGT (Join to see) No. If Veterans are submitting valid claims, they should not feel bad about it.
(21)
(0)
19
19
0
Hell no! Some of us never saw combat or served during peacetime and we, as veterans, get hurt on the job and deserve whatever the VA has available to us!
(19)
(0)
18
18
0
Absolutely not...wherever you are completing the mission assigned to you is considered vital, so whether you have tinnitus from being around loud noises such as a flight line, had a pallet fall on you in a supply hanger or depot, or developed high blood pressure from the day-to-day stress of protecting our great country you have done your duty. If doing your duty, again, no matter what it was, resulted in compensation then it is definitely deserved.
(18)
(0)
18
18
0
I receive a service connection for PTSD. I get mocked & ridiculed by fellow veterans, I get confused civilians that can’t figure out how or why I even have PTSD if I never served in combat. It’s not my place to explain myself, nobody knows what I went thru in my career, however brief it was. I do feel guilty, because of the way people make me feel, like I have no right collecting ANY kind of compensation for what I struggle with every single day of my life. Sometimes that compensation is my only saving grace because it’s so hard to stay with any particular job for any length of time because it’s hard for me to deal with people or be in public places more than I care to be. I can’t medicate to help ease the symptoms of my condition because every medication tried makes me sicker than a dog. All the years in the VA system in therapy hasn’t done anything to help either. You get to feel so lost in the world & people making you feel worse about yourself, that you’re less of a person for “supposedly” having PTSD, doesn’t help either. People are so quick to judge when they don’t know you or your story so yeah, I feel guilt, when I shouldn’t be put in a position to feel guilty for something I had no control over.
(18)
(0)
SGT Wanda Shepherd
I'm surprised by the lack of empathy for those with PTSD. Once diagnosed, why should anyone have to explain why they have PTSD. This is apalling and you should be treated with respect.
(2)
(0)
SPC Vonnie Jones
Look we do what we need to keep from going of the edge. Don't feel bad, nobody knows your story except you. When you went in you didn't have PTSD. If you had a civilian job and broke your back you would get workers comp or disability. Just because nobody attacked the US when you were in y our greens doesn't mean things (awful things) didn't happen while you were defending the nation. I was a medic things happen during peace time all the times that caused painful memories. Don't worry how others feel, people that never serve will never understand the sacrifice of a soldier (wartime or peacetime or on the brink). Get better
(1)
(0)
SPC Vonnie Jones
SrA Nicole Dedick request another therapist, you have to feel comfortable enough to open up, so ask for another therapist. Also there is a veterans crisis hot line. Sometimes we have to be our own advocates to get the better care that we need. Use the veterans crisis hot line if you need to, also ask for another therapist. Remember the pen is mighty write veterans affairs. Best regards
(0)
(0)
CPL Tanya Otey
young lady stop feeling bad because of what people say they did not experience what u went through and probably wouldnt be able to handle it, do u and live your life to the best of your ability and the hell with the haters!!!
(0)
(0)
17
17
0
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google