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

No, if the were incurred in the line of duty or through no fault or negligence of the veteran.

What a stupid question! Not when you spend time training. People get injured training for combat. I myself was hurt while on an Airborne Training exercise. Pilot missed the drop zone and I landed in the trees. It wasn’t a combat mission, but I was training for it. And I still think it’s a stupid question!

Heck no! I was a photographer. I saw stuff that still gives me nightmares and all the walking, bending, jumping, running and contorting myself to get a "shot". My body started breaking down at age 30 because of all that.

Only in a group such as this one, populated by people who spent years pushing themselves and others to strive for perfection of deed and character, can a question like this be asked without laughter.

It has a simple answer. No. No veteran should hesitate or think poorly of their ability to receive a VA disability. Veterans of any conflict, branch, MOS or era who meet the requirements for disability compensation are entitled to it. Does a chess player feel badly that their rook can move so many spaces while a pawn is limited? No, because the action is prescribed by the rules of the game.

Disability benefits are certainly a more serious than any game of chess, but so much more the reason why we shouldn't make artificial exclusions beyond what are in the existing rules.

Get the rating and care that you need. Encourage and support others to do the same. Pay attention to the matters of Congress and the Executive Branch that pertain to your care and other rights - and engage in that process as you see fit. Look after your fellow veterans with a compassionate heart - they have earned that.

My wounds have nothing to do with combat, and I have no regrets about receiving a disability rating. We swore an oath to serve our country when we enlisted, and everyone is entitled to the same benefits if they are warranted. Soldiers, Marines—we are all brothers and sisters. Assist your fellow veteran in obtaining the benefits he or she justly deserves.

No way! A disability is a disability rather on the battlefield or injured in a non-combat role.

Hell no. Those injuries can be devastating. Anyone who tries to put someone down for receiving VA disability compensation is a fucking asshole.

Disability Compensation is hard enough to get when you have physical injuries. Let alone the Stress of Combat Tours with your life in danger constantly. But just as many claims for disability can come out of Combat Zones as from in them!

Stress is natural from just being in the Military Service and the reality is your life can be in just as much danger out of your control as in a Combat Zone! Yes we deserve Disability Compensation for injuries that can't be seen like scars, missing limbs etc!

No. I became I'll with meningitis and cross infected with Llhasa fever.
No I don't feel bad at all about it.
I fought the system for 21 years to get compensated. Like as usual the VA isn't charitable. Despite now developing COPD on top of the asthma, the VA ( of course) won't increase my disability.
Especially these days after Bidenski instructed the VA to minimize additional expenditures for his proxy war in Ukraine

No!