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LTC Jeff Shearer
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Charlie that would be very cool. I have a few stories about "the system" being broken when it comes to our disabled vets. I met a kid, I guess he was not a kid he was man but a young man. He had lost both legs, one was a high amputation the other was just above the knee. He had expensive prosthetics but fell every time he would walk with them. I thought he just got them, no he had them for a while. I ask him about physical therapy after he got them. He said the physical therapy was the day they arrived they showed him how to put them on and take them off then sent him on his way. I blew a gasket. That is not what I do for a living but I am smart enough to know that is not right. Hell I got my physical therapy for overeating at the buffet.

Sorry I got way off track with that one. Whatever the President can do for disabled vets good.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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LTC Jeff Shearer off the post topic but timely. Too much handing veterans things (prosthetics, pills, braces) and then checking them off as "done"
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LTC Jeff Shearer
LTC Jeff Shearer
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Charlie/Shirley I guess this is round 2 I will try not to kick to many faces but here we go... I dont care what the issue prosthetics, pills, braces etc... these men and women got up every morning put a uniform on and worked inside the US or somewhere abroad, many in a war zone. People dont get how serious this is but it is dead serious. I went and visited a Special Forces SR NCO at Walter Reed after he hit an IED in Iraq. He almost bled to death on the side of the road. His team slowed the bleeding as well as possible on the side of the road. He was sent to Water Reed. I looked like not only was he going to live but he was going to walk again. Then as he began to recover things changed, that nasty shit from the side of the road that was now in his blood stream turned bad and they amputated both legs. He maintained a great SF attitude but what double fuck. He is getting better and they have to amputate his legs. I can only imagine the potential issues with the care from now on. This is an American hero that will require something for the rest of his life. Okay yall I am going to tap out for a while before I start punching the walls
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Sounds like a win-win deal.
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Sgt Randy Wilber
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Thanks for sharing Lt Col Charlie Brown sounds good to me.
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