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

Servicevdisabilities of all sorts should be compensated. If they were not service connected no.
Tyey would probably not have that wound or any other'

Never. Never feel bad for SERVICE CONNECTED INJURIES. Not e very solider, sailor or airman do combat, and injuries happen everyday , everywhere, not just combat related

Hail No!!
Those Non-combat injuries, ( my rotator cuff) compound my combat injuries ( broken back T-11 /L-1) .
When I get out of bed, and reach out to the wall to steady myself, will my shoulder hold me steady?
Tell me I am not worthy of my compensation. Yeah RIGHT.
AATW
Tim

No, if you volunteer to give up your life it’s the least the government can do to say thank you.

As a disabled Coast Guardsman I was very secretive about my service connected disability. I broke my back and was temporarily paralyzed. And lost 5 friends during a heavy weather rescue mission. But as most Coasties know 99% of our missions are non-combat yet we suffer from injuries just the same. And we die during these non-combat mission. I feel if I were a soldier, sailor, marine,or airmen injured during a mission, the process of putting in for a service related clam would have been a bit easier. I took me more then 10 years to get rated and my PTSD was denied because it was not in combat. So yes I feel very sad about the whole process.

Well, did you feel bad being awarded a Meritorious Service Medal, or Comendation Medal? Being awarded disability took some getting used to, but you shouldn't feel bad, nor, be made to feel bad.

I don't think anyone should feel bad about getting compensation. I put in for it for my hearing loss and tinitus. But they didn't think 20 months in a twin 5 inch 38 had any affect on me.. The worst part is a lot of my friends have gotten hearing aids and a 10% disability and most of them hardly shot a gun... I spent a lot of time on the gun line in Viet Nam on a destroyer, sometimes 6 hrs on and 6hrs. off...

I wouldn't say I should feel bad for being a 100% SERVICE connected Vet. But i 100% do. And wish it wasn't like this. Now there is Service connected and Non-Service connected disability. Should that be the question? Should a vet feel bad for receiving non-service connected disability? And knowing a lot of vets with both since I'm down at the Philadelphia VA at least once a week i think no one should feel bad. If you need it take it. If you don't then don't. Thats how a vet explained it to me once. I said "oh your a combat vet why don't you receive Any benefits?" He said "i work and don't need any and thank God i don't. Thats for the vets that need it. I don't need it". I thought that was a great way to put it. Now a little bit about my story is Combat Vet, Iraq, PTSD D&A, was homeless at one time 2012, Now on a road to recovery. And i will say with out the money and benefits of the VA i would be in a bad spot. Bottom line i wish i didn't need them bit do. Should i feel bad for using them no. Do i feel like a smacked ass when people ask oh and what do you do for work? And i have to say "well i do a lot of volunteering and this that but im a disabled vet". Feel like shit every time. But i can say "im not homeless! Im not living in my car! Im not sleeping on the bus to stay warm, i have my family in my life, didn't get my fiancé back Or my old life back, but i did get a life worth living!" And i love waking up every day to my love Annie." Annies my beautiful Pit. Never give up. God Bless America. God Bless the Marines

No matter where it's done, when its done, neglecting a PLF and landing flat side ways is never a good thing.

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