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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I have disability for my hearing, but I sometimes feel badly when I hear hear about combat vets and the problems they have getting a rating. LCDR Gordon Brown
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LCDR Gordon Brown
SGT (Join to see) - If you received the injury After you signed that blank check then you DESERVE the disability rating and you should never feel bad. All of the chemicals including asbestos, carbon tet and Agent Orange we Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans were exposed to is slowly killing the remaining 900,000 Vietnam Vets still alive and we receive nothing.
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LCDR Gordon Brown - My uncle was a Marine in Vietnam who died from Agent Orange. He did not get disability until near the end of his life. I really feel badly about those guys not getting their due.
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Well...I think it depends. I know people that have retired from active duty to be hired doing the exact same job as civilian employees. Some have disabilitiy ratings of 60% and more. Sleep apnea and stuff like that. I will say that the military did promise life long medical care through the va and Tricare. So it makes sense to document all of your problems when retiring and if that rates you disability than good for you.
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It's just like any other job provided medical disability. If the military caused you damage, they should fix you or compensate you for the permanent disability or disfigurement it caused or made worse. Whether it was getting blown up by an IED, or a steel plate in the head because the transmission went out on the M113 causing it to lose steering and braking so you were thrwon from it when it crashed into a concrete wall (this happened to someone I know in Baghdad, but it would just as easily have been Germany or stateside).
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People like to focus their hero worship (thanks to Hollywood, etc) on the pointy end of the stick, the heroes on the very front line, but the strongest/biggest part of the spear is the staff that holds it up and sends it out. Neither end of this 'weapon' is much good without the other. Service is service.
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Disabilities received outside of combat occur to a much greater extent than during combat! I do not feel bad or lesser earned at all. What I feel I have issues about is being a solder, trained to perform a mission of protecting my country and working side by side with fellow brothers in combat, but never allowed the chance. Not being tested or charging a chance to actually fight for our shared belief. Guess some type of weird survivors guilt! Does this make sense?
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Absolutely not!Example is agent orange,how many handle this product that were not involved in combat operations?How many Veterans have died from this?
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PO3 Mickey Mishra
I have seen to many people with life long issues from Agent Orange. Man, its something that I'm pretty sure he died from due to complications. God bless his wife for sticking with him till the end.
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BS Question. I was in a combat zone for 365 days I survived two Sapper Attacks and several 122 rocket attacks. I sustained injuries and infections there. The injuries were non combat related. 46 years later I'm diagnosed with 70% PTSD. 49 years later I'm 100% permanent and total and compensated for House bound. Directly related to the injures documented including 43 surgical procedures while in service and now my total procedures amount to 54. No I don't feel band because I didn't take a bullet or shrapnel. I kept my PTSD symptoms to myself on VA assessments for those 46 years I got careless on one physical and the doc caught me and put it in the record and the nightmare began for a year and a half. That's behind me now.
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You dam straight... I lost some of hearing do to listening ECM gear on a Westpac deployment. I also lost part of the vision in my left do to an altercation. Lastly I went thru the Atomic tests at Johnston Island.
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PO3 Mickey Mishra
You know whats crazy? People actually believe today that atomic bombs are fake and don't exist! Crazy how things are today.
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