What do you think are the largest issues facing the Veteran community?

all vets should receive dental. only 100 % disabled vets receive this benefit.totally wrong

Not being able to access dental care unless 100% disabled. Oral care plays a major roll in immune support, the digestive system, and more. It’s not just an esthetic need.
Veterans even well deserving veterans live in fear of scrutiny or saying wrong words in exams which could drop disability ratings.
The long wait times and backlogs for benefit decisions and the non personal manner in which decisions are reached.
Organizations or firms targeting veterans for percentages of their disability pay.
After submitting pertinent evidence, nexus letters, etc. a veteran with the use of a VSO can still be denied disability by using “incorrect “ terminology. Thus, causing undo stress to the veteran as they enter the appeals process which can effect a veterans immediate needs and also costs the VA funds in time, resources, and legal costs.
The difficulty of finding like minded outlets or places to reintegrate with a sense of commoradery.

Looking specifically at the "recent" veteran community (last 15 years or so), I think the biggest problem is the lack of diversity. We check all of the "standard" diversity blocks (race, religion, gender, etc.), but we do not exist in meaningful numbers across all of society.

Previous generations of veterans, ESPECIALLY the greatest generation, but largely true in the Boomers, too, had people from across ALL of society serving. This was in large part due to the draft, especially for the Boomers and Vietnam, I am aware. But as we moved to an all-volunteer force, the military has become increasingly isolated from civilians, as have veterans.

As millennials become veterans, we are not seeing veterans represented across all of America. And definitely not proportionally. Very few vets exist within the "elites" (upper class, political class, and top tier academia). Very few vets exist within the inner cities - or come from them, either.

As we move further and further into a "military class" that is separated from the rest of the population, the rest of the population not only doesn't understand veteran's (and currently serving military) issues they don't care, either.

When vets are woven throughout all of society, all of society has a face and a name that they can put on the title of "veteran." No longer is it asking Congress to take care of some random people over there, now it is asking Congress to take care of Bob Smith and George Jones and Betty Bloom. And all three of them are stand-up folks, so why WOULDN'T we ask Congress to take care of them?

The fact that we have entirely too many homeless vets on the streets. This is in part largely due to the fact that we ostracize mental deficits. We have this idea that shoving pills down their throats will cure them. The change that happens causes them to relapse into old mental states the second they can’t access them, find them, they lose them, etc. we need to look into alternative therapies to cure mental disease, ptsd, and others.

The veteran has a lot of issues that they face.
1. A veteran is denied a claim for disability that happened to them while on active duty when the medical record has multiple entries showing the veteran receiving treatment while on active duty and the injury/disability is still present and has gotten worse since exiting active duty.
2. A veteran cannot get a medical appointment with the VA in a timely manner for a disability and becomes frustrated with the appointment red tape and gives up with begging for an appointment for a disability that is clearly a result from military service.
3. There are thousands of veterans that have applied for The Camp Lejeune Water Contamination and The Burn Pit Bill. Veterans and their family have and still are suffering now but the VA along with Congress continue kicking the can down the road.

I myself was turned down at the VA because they said I made too much money. I don’t know how you can make too much money on social security. My answer to the question is that veterans aren’t treated equal. If you’ve served it shouldn’t make a difference. I support all veterans who served in a war zone or not

The lack of veterans in Congress.

I think if you are forced out of the military for medical reasons acceptance by the VA should be automatic. The other thing is VA math does nothing but hurt the vet and his family. Dealing with the VA is extremely difficult. There is an entire industry feeding off the vet just helping the vet get through the VA minefield.

Veteran suicide.