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  1. Thank you sooo much Informed Consent. This is a topic that I’ve been waiting for on this blog. I have a few good friends who served during the Vietnam and Desert Storm “campaigns”. I will pass this info onto them. Your description of situations mirrors those that I’ve heard my fellow veteran friends speak of. Again, thank you and may all our spirits be renewed with the hope of reformation in this matter. God bless you and all who have served and sacrificed to protect our brothers and sisters.

    1. Ohio Guy,
      Unusually kind words of encouragement! Thank you for caring about your veteran friends. I’m sure they appreciate you for that!

  2. Informed Consent, many thanks for taking the time and effort to write and present this article. I think it best to walk a mile in the “other man’s shoes” before criticizing or condemning. I pray that opportunity passes me by and is removed from those with that burden. Each time I go to the VA it is a stark reminder for me that “there but by the grace of God go I”. The VA is not perfect. Thank God they are there. The VA can do better….much better. God bless brother. I hope someone from the VA is reading this and takes it upon them self to take a deep look into this issue and do the right thing.

  3. I remember the burial mounds (underground storage). I went through CDTF (nerve agent chamber). We trained with Radiac EQ using a real radioactive source. All chemical corp and MP corp soldiers trained at Ft McClellan prior to 99. The polygraph institute was a trip for the trainee guinea pigs. An Iranian dude made his suicidal thoughts known on the grenade range making for super happy drill sergeants. That’s all I recall about that time that was neat or pertinent.
    I am writing this blerb in case it helps any sickened vets. I was not injured to terribly from MY time there that I know of.
    AIRBORNE!!!!!!!!!! ! !(All the Way!!!)
    /\

  4. 1. VA is “Single Payer”. Be afraid, be very afraid.
    2. There are also cases where after 8 years in Iraq, after having been severely injured in the head, veterans end up signing something and they are said to have had some problem where they would not have been eligible to serve, so lose benefits.
    There are lots of trumped up “less than honorable discharge” veterans, but you need years, cash, and lawyers to even attempt to fix this.
    3. This is a promise we must keep because Veterans earned it.

  5. I know a very fine attorney who represents veterans in cases regarding their benefits. He is a Navy veteran and a kind man. OPSEC restrains me from offering his name. Ask Grandpa Google (or your chosen recon device) to find you a fierce and devoted to justice attorney in your area.

  6. I think it would’ve been far more economical, efficient, and effective if the military would’ve just paid for insurance to cover vets. Given the amount of money they spend annually for the worst service imaginable, had they gone private sector they would be money ahead right now, and those who need it would have far better service than they have received so far.

    1. As a veteran, I have had the same thoughts/questions that you bring up ever since I started using the VA healthcare system. Choice and competition for the consumer (in this case the veteran) almost always brings about lower costs and better treatment. Why can’t anyone in government see the advantages that private sector insurance/treatment would provide? I suspect that much of that has to do with the nature of government itself. Once a government program is started, it is extremely difficult or impossible to shut it down. We must always remember that it is in the nature of all governments to constantly expand their power, control, and influence over their citizenry. To give veterans a “choice” in determining their medical treatment runs contrary to that goal!

      1. On that note. My health care provider, a local hospital clinic, sent out flyers that they could take veterans who were waiting on the VA. I don’t use the VA and probably never would so I didn’t pay much attention to it. That has been a year or so I think it was the result of the recent VA scandal. But if my hospital is taking them I have to assume other civilian health care providers are too.

  7. An additional “resource” is to hie thee hither and read
    thisainthell dot us
    A blog site run by vets, for vets, commentated by vets. Others can join in the fray as well, it’s not exclusive.
    The consensus there is that the VA system is broken due to the mid and upper level GS bureaucracy.
    Most of the doctors and lower level staff (nurses, aides, etc) do the best they can for the troops, with what they’re given. It’s the ones who decide who gets what treatment, the ones who make the schedules, and the ones who DON’T bother to vett the vets (phony and altered DD214s, Stolen Valor) are what make the VA system so “broke” and broken.
    That, and the usual Gubberment union “rules and regulations” (not laws) that prevents the firing of the lazy and incompetent.

  8. Those unwilling to fight for freedom don’t deserve it.

    We owe our vets the best care we are capable of giving. That’s what they did for us. They deserve our best – they gave us their best! Payback is NOT hell, when it comes to veterans!!!!! Rather, its the right thing to do. The VA should step-up and do the right thing, but if they can’t, giving the Vet the option of being treated in the civilian economy is the best answer. Competition isn’t bad; its good for vets.

    My management philosophy has always been “lop the top!”

  9. I am retired from uncle sams confused group and as such I have USFHP, a TRICARE alternative. I Also have a 20% disiblilty so I have access to the VA. Finally I’m a paramedic and I’ve picked up many a vet and carried them to and from the va. I needed a sleep study done and I checked at the va to get it done. The wait time was TWO YEARS! I went to my private dr using my USFHP insurance, and had it done within 2 weeks. The care I’ve seen at the VA was the argument that I used against obummer care. If you can’t take good care of a few million vets, what makes you think you can do better with 300+million Americans? As a group I’ve found vets to be by far the worse case patients. My real peeve was the government employee nurses. Getting the info on the patient that I was transporting was like pulling teeth. I usually left hoping karma bit them in the butt.

  10. Appreciate all of your thoughtful feedback!

    Hope these articles helped to shed some light on the core issue of what causes VA nightmares.

    Moreover, I hope that the resources shared here and feedback is helpful to those who are downtrodden.

  11. All vets are NOT equal! I have noticed that the Veterans of World War I and II and Vietnam are far more humble and respectful and certainly worthy of being supported as in “service connected” so they can get the help they deserve from the corrupt VA, however, unfortunately, nowdays you see so-called younger vets running off at the mouth, not humble and serving only a few years then building a rap sheet with Primary Care (VA) Physician for the intentional purpose of getting 100% service connected. What does that mean you ask? Well, it means that Mikey or Shirley can enlist and come out after 3 or 4 years and whine and complain to a physician about this or that until they get 100% service connected which means you and every other working American will be paying their monthly government paycheck of $2k to 3k for the rest of their lives.

    INJUSTICE!! and a CORRUPT VA!!

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