Should Veterans feel bad about being awarded and receiving VA disability compensation for non-combat related injuries?

The repetitive stress disorder I got while serving 30 years ago still affects me. So vets should get whatever is owed to them. Unfortunately for me my RSI started 5 months before my discharge, I never went to sick bay and it's not recorded my permanat record

Veterans should NEVER feel bad about accepting VA compensation for a service-connected disability!Does the rest of the country "feel bad" about our pay scale, or the rest of what might be considered "compensation" for our services? If so, them why are the first five enlisted pay grades dang near poverty level? When I was an E-4 (1979) with two infant sons, if my wife hadn't worked a job outside of the home, we would have qualified for food stamps and welfare in Maryland (Ft Meade)
I can hear all the hard**ses saying "If the Army wanted you to have a wife (& kids) they would have issued you one" yeah, yeah, yeah - stuff it in your ditty bag right next to that bucket of muzzle velocity you sent me after in Basic!!! I VOLUNTEERED for service, and proudly served for seven years, made all kinds of sacrifices and a hardship tour - I paid my dues even if I never went to combat!! I am damn proud of my service and my country - but don't think I should "feel bad" about accepting my service-connected disability (10% hearing loss). It's non-compensable, but I still get health care at the VA medical center - dammit I EARNED that!

I am deeply offended by this question. my plane crash in Vietnam was not considered combat because we were on takeoff had not reach the combat zone. the plane crash because it’s a hard-working American in Texas made a mistake. the doctor spent five years putting me back together. yes I receive disability compensation. yes I think I deserve it. yes I am offended that anybody would ask. I signed the letter just like everybody else did. to go were they told me, and do what they do what needed to be done Somewhere in that letter there was a clause about they’ll take care of me if something happens. I lived up to my oath and they have lived up there

An Anthrax vaccine is combat related in my opinion. We preach Integrity, when will the truth come out?

I did feel.... almost ashamed, to finally, after 28 years, make a VA claim for my disability. I blew out my knee in A.I.T. and shredded my lateral meniscus. The Army Surgeon just removed all of it. Many years later, after several additional surgeries on my work insurance, I was in a position of not having any insurance, and that damn knee was acting up again. (It finally got to the point where I now have a TKR.) Anyway, I went to the DAV and it was a no brainer. Service connected and into the system I went. I was even chastised for not coming in sooner. You see, I was a Cold War Era Soldier, and in my my mind all those guys that served from WWII through Vietnam, and those that stepped up since 9/11, (BTW thank you, post 9/11 guys, for taking the battle to the enemy. As a native NYer, and of course, American, I really appreciate what you have done.) had WAY more right to those services than I did. I struggled with it, and even the current trend of thanking me for my service for a long time. At some level I still do. Yes, I am proud of my service. I just know in my heart that so many have given so much more than I ever did.

I wasn't in combat but I do receive service related disability compensation. I have MST/PTSD (Military Sexual Trauma). Which I went through with my chain of command overseas. At first, I didn't get the help I needed and my family suffered for it, along with my addictions. I felt guilty for using the VA resources until my uncle (he was a Air Force veteran also) told me that I earned it. I started getting the help I needed in 2010. I thank God every day for that help. Because without it, I would have been another veteran suicide. So thank you again to the VA for helping me.

YES!!! Ashamed would be less politically correct, but if it fits, wear it. But you say non-combat related. I know of a Marine that was "given" 100% disability and is in better shape and more active than me. One young lad that I know, was awarded 70% disability for being injured while playing basketball and he got his shoulder injured. Service related? Combat related? NO WAY. Many of us are not even told that we could apply for service/combat related injuries. Tinnitus is one that I lived with for over 30 years and did not know that it was a combat injury, duh! Being informed is what has been withheld for tool long!!

No

I'm on the fence with this. I received a very serious hearing injury in active duty in the mid 1980s when someone started an M60A3 while I had the grills open. They did hearing testing and everything and told me not to worry, it will come back.
It never did, and I never have any thought to a disability. It's been a pain going thru life like this, but hasn't adversely affected my ability to support myself.

Sp4 Byron Skinner…This is an absurd question. I don't know what the RH requirements are now but you actually has to have been wounded while in contact with the enemy. Every REMF with an ingrown toenail who convinced a VA claims clerk that he had to walt to much while in service because the Mess Hall and PX were to far from his/her quarters…Personally since those in the military now pay into Social Security now that all non-combat injures could be handled through Social Security. Lets face it 40% of the Army doesn't deploy out of CONUS the only difference between the military and a 9-5 on the outside is that the soldier doesn't have to decide what to wear to work and the get a free lunch every. By the DoD's won estimate only .9% 0f 1% of Soldiers are nor engaged in combats part of their job. They doe not go outside the wire and are expected to kill everybody the encounter. It perfect ally naturally that these people don't like seeing Americans and make it a point to kill them before they get killed. That 1% of soldiers is of the whole Army and 40% of them can expect to be killed or sustain a life changing wound.The other 99% of soldiers have a lower death an injury rate the many civilian occupations such as Coal Mining or working on the electrical grid. There is absolutely no reason why these soldiers should get the same consideration for disability pay out as the 19 year old that volunteer to go out find the enemy and engage him. With the 11B MOS now open to females the Gender excuse has disappeared, women have the same chance as males of voluntary getting themselves killed.