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The Gunny
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The VA has been aware of my problems for over a year and still nothing! The VA system is a joke!
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10-12-2012, 06:05 PM
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The VA has been aware of my problems for over a year and still nothing!
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The VA is totally overwhelmed. 45 percent of folks getting off active duty file for disability.
In May, 2011 i asked for a re-evaluation. Got the results back end of August, 2012. Now in goes the appeal because they eliminated my rating for tinnitus. My ears still ring like the liberty bell as they have for the past 35 years. They screwed up some other stuff too.
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10-12-2012, 07:26 PM
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The Gunny
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The VA is totally overwhelmed. 45 percent of folks getting off active duty file for disability.
In May, 2011 i asked for a re-evaluation. Got the results back end of August, 2012. Now in goes the appeal because they eliminated my rating for tinnitus. My ears still ring like the liberty bell as they have for the past 35 years. They screwed up some other stuff too.
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Yeah I was still in when I filed all my paperwork and was told under the Benefits Delivery at Discharge (it's suppose to be the fast program) would take 3-6 months. I had a follow up last week and when I get to the hospital (about an hour away) it was because they wanted more info on stuff they already had. The lady apologized as she didn't see the previous doctor's notes 
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10-12-2012, 07:37 PM
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"Support for the troops" is mostly a myth: Despite the rhetoric, few Americans really care about the troops. Americans do support the wars.
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Yeah. I am going to have to disagree with you there.
Being involved with WWP has shown me that a TON of people have been touched by these wars and they ALL support the troops, regardless of how they feel about the war and the cause.
I don't support the work we are doing in Northern Africa right now, again, because no one is talking about it.
I don't support still being in Iraq in any sense, but I support putting Saddam and those two bastard kids in the ground. Let the country fight out how they want to rule and get the f*ck out.
Afghanistan should have been a glass valley where nothing would grow for the next 10,000 years many moons ago.
I am never for a war that doesn't untie the hands of the troops fighting it.
JD
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10-12-2012, 07:40 PM
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Sometimes you are better off if you don't get treatment at the VA. I had (yes, had) a friend who was a retired Colonel, who had a bleeding stomach ulcer. He went to the VA hospital. They gave him an anti-coagulant. He died (bled to death) a couple of hours later.
I had another friend who needed a kidney transplant. He waited a year and a half, finally the VA brought him in for the operation. They removed his good kidney. He died. I have known of some guys who had PTSD that they used electro-shock "therapy" on, and turned them into vegetables.
I won't go to the VA. I end up paying plenty, but at least I'm still functional.
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10-12-2012, 08:09 PM
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"Support for the troops" is mostly a myth: Despite the rhetoric, few Americans really care about the troops. Americans do support the wars.
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Oh Americans don't specifically support the wars,
or on a social level, even approve of them. But
they all want the benefits a wartime economy brings... 
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10-12-2012, 08:24 PM
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The Gunny
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Oh Americans don't specifically support the wars,
or on a social level, even approve of them. But
they all want the benefits a wartime economy brings... |
What have been the benefits to the economy in the last 10 years? 
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10-12-2012, 08:24 PM
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the benefits a wartime economy brings... |
Um? Bro?
We have been "at war" for most of the past decade and the economy is in the crapper. When do the "benefits" start kicking in??
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10-13-2012, 12:09 AM
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Now with even more win
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Um? Bro?
We have been "at war" for most of the past decade and the economy is in the crapper. When do the "benefits" start kicking in?? |
Should of been a bumper sticker and other platitude prover manufacturer.
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Last edited by Ubergopher; 10-13-2012 at 12:11 AM.
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10-13-2012, 12:24 AM
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Crazy as an outhouse Rat!
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Originally Posted by Dillinger
Yeah. I am going to have to disagree with you there.
Being involved with WWP has shown me that a TON of people have been touched by these wars and they ALL support the troops, regardless of how they feel about the war and the cause.
I don't support the work we are doing in Northern Africa right now, again, because no one is talking about it.
I don't support still being in Iraq in any sense, but I support putting Saddam and those two bastard kids in the ground. Let the country fight out how they want to rule and get the f*ck out.
Afghanistan should have been a glass valley where nothing would grow for the next 10,000 years many moons ago.
I am never for a war that doesn't untie the hands of the troops fighting it.
JD
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i may not agree or support the conflict or the administration behind it, but i will always support the troops deployed there. they go where they are told and are not asked for their opinion of the deployment.
i also believe that if you decide to deploy troops into a conflict, let them do their job, get the job done and let them get the hell out of there.
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