Posted on Dec 27, 2017
Should Veterans feel bad about being awarded and receiving VA disability compensation for non-combat related injuries?
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No. I was hurt during a joint military FTX and I remained on active duty until I was told I had to receive a medical discharge due to a back injury which the military doctors could not perform surgery. As of March 22, 2018 I received my long awaited surgery from a Choice Program doctor and I can finally walk after 14 years.
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74 USMC non- war injury in Tunisia .One injury was a gas manifold explosion.My pretty face didn't get hurt. Was rushed to the ship & I was confined in tank deck for a week in darkness.There was another .Both were documented only on the other injury was my back.When getting out 1977 the doc said I did qualify for 15% however if I did I could not be a cop or fireman .I didn't take.Yes you know it never did either.VA has declined me saying records are not found.Now about 20 years ago I realized my left eye is 70% blind.I should have jumped on it in 1977
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MSgt Scott Gaston
Injuries get worse over time. Mine was originally occurred in 1975 at the Ripe Old Age of 18. The picture is me last January at 61.. Go to he DAV office and appoint them as your representative. Find people who you served with and ask them to write letters about it, write your congressman and senator. injuries get worse over time. I just had my right shoulder completely reverse replaced. It was the result of being run down by two buddies playing full contact football (without any pads) and my worsening arthritis Of course the emergency room at the base hospital said it was just a strain and lined me up with Physical Therapy. After 2 weeks of painful therapy and pain even without being at therapy. A Doctor asked me to jump up on a bed and asked me to sit perfectly still. All of a sudden he cupped his hand and slammed it into my arm/shoulder. Then he proceeded to tell me I had been walking around for 2 (two) weeks with a separated shoulder! Anyway don't give up my Brother in Arms! You deserve to be taken care of. Right now since they can finally fire those VA who don't do their jobs, let the DAV Have a go at helping you.
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No not if it was somewhat related to what you did in the military. I wish they would have given me something I have a really bad heart condition and sleep apena.
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Absolutely Not!
All Veterans signed on the dotted line blank check for ALL periods of military service.
All Veterans signed on the dotted line blank check for ALL periods of military service.
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NO! When you are on active duty in the military, in most cases you are doing the same exact job, day in and day out, that you would be doing if you were in a combat area. I am retired Navy, I worked on the flight deck on aircraft carriers my entire career, operating the Launch and Recovery Equipment. That flight deck was as dangerous when we were launching aircraft during the Viet Nam war, as it was during normal peacetime operations. The aircraft on deck didn't care if it was wartime or not, they could still kill, or injure you just as quick! In my 20 years on active duty, besides my own injuries, I lost 2 sailors who worked for me to aircraft accidents and had several more injured. So you see in most cases there is no difference between operations during training or combat. Also, you only have a small number of people that are involved in actual combat, what about the support people who make his/her job possible. Remember we train to be ready for combat.
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Cpl John Jaklich
thanks...I was on a helicopter MAG with the frequent, run of the mill, "incoming" during TET of '67-'68; which blew apart plenty of hooches, blew apart my buildings several times. We had threats of being overrun. I was an almost at least once...the guys running out of the hooch behind me turned and ran the other way thinking I was hit by a rocket going off in just in front of us...good thing I wasn't in the outhouse. it was quite an impressive blast when running toward it. Rockets always happened so fast, we would never had time to grab the cigarettes and beer on our way to the bunker. Mortars were walked in so it was less threatening. The hut behind us got blown away and a bunker two doors back was blown away. I regretted coming back to the states to face inspections and ridiculous disciplines...although I skated plenty of them, anyway.
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