@@backscratches5926 Nightmares from what? My guess is that you are one of the thousands and thousands of people gaming the system. Give us your MO and tell us where you’ were stationed. Statistically you are likely one of those “in the rear with the gear.”

@@user-user-user-user.tbh I wouldn’t call my dreams nightmares…but I do dream that I’m deployed still and I been out 10yrs

same lmao. ive cleared my own house before with my firearm

Write them a personal statement that way they will have it with the paperwork.

This happens a lot even with private doctors. Sickening

I always write a message to my va doctor so it automatically uploads to my medical records.

I use a screen recorder on my Mac they whole video session records

The only help unemployed vets also. If you earn 10 bucks an hour you ain't worth their time

Hill and Pontin don’t know anything about AA and caregiver claims or SMC. They will only help on easy claims. I know more about va claims than they do

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Kinda makes sense… but I see a lot of holes in your logic. For instance… what do you tell the female or male 42A that was sexually assaulted at an off post party? What about the 88M that was hit by an IED? What about the 15T crew Chief that watch his buddies bird go down because of mechanical failure? Everyone has a story to tell… just keep that in mind. 11’s and 12’s put in work… but they’re sure not the only ones that make the war machine move. If you got out honorable, go get your benefits!

@@reed510 You are listing the anomalies and exceptions. Of course people who witness or are in close proximity to tragedies deserve counseling and support. What I’m talking about are the tens of thousands of spurious claims. If you dig down, you’ll find veterans designated with PTSD, just because they could *hear* enemy mortars, or because they saw someone wounded in the infirmary, or because they worked a checkpoint for a few days. In fact you will find entire KZfaq channels (and Discord severs) dedicated to guiding people on how to game the system. If you worked in a forward area whether you slung a weapon or not, you undoubtedly experienced some level of stress and discomfort. To those vets I say “thank you for your service.” However the idea that someone should receive partial of full disability for life because they maintained communication equipment or fixed HVAC systems or stacked boxes of Snickers at the PX is ridiculous. And unfortunately that is exactly the type of people who are sucking up the money. When you think about the numbers floating around (70+%) you are talking about billions of $. Because our culture and our society has been hardwired since the end of Vietnam to never again turn our backs on vets (a good thing) while simultaneously celebrating victimhood, we now have the mess we are in and the people who need help aren’t always getting it. Final thought -a study was done in the 70’s that countered the popular image of Vietnam vets being damaged (or homeless). Combat vets in Vietnam, post service, were less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol, were less likely to become homeless, were less likely to be arrested for domestic violence and were more likely to own their own business than their non combat counterparts and indeed the larger society. Contemplate that.

I maintained communications equipment and I have PTSD. You're being extremely ignorant and biased. Every person in the military primary job is infantry and secondary is your MOS. And does your Vietnam veterans study take into account all the black veterans that were discriminated against and screwed out of any benefits?

@@marcusbennette8454 You maintained communications equipment…and you have PTSD? Thank you for your service but by your logic literally everyone who serves in the military would have PTSD. Let me pose this question to you, do you think it’s fair, as someone not even in operational communications (assigned to a combat unit) but someone who maintained equipment (“in the rear with the gear”) you should take money from veterans who saw combat? Should you take money from someone active duty involved in an accident with military equipment? Because that is exactly what you are doing. The problem is that in the 80’s the VA redesigned its disability compensation guidelines and this blew the door wide open for anyone serving, under any conditions to claim PTSD. I met a former Navy JAG lawyer, now in private practice, explain to me how he was retiring from his law firm early to collect VA benefits because he had PTSD…from prosecuting military cases.! In what other arena would this be acceptable? If the VA were a private company it would have run itself into the ground decades ago. Instead of pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps people are not only playing the sympathy card, they are trying to get paid while they do it (and the statistics confirm this). Ironically the African American vets who served in combat units in Vietnam were less likely to abuse drugs or go to prison post service than than non combat white veterans. The notion of homeless, disturbed and perpetually shell shocked Vietnam Vets is mythology. People think this is all a joke but anthropologists have been documenting and researching this for decades. Your own claim of PTSD from fixing radios shows just how far we have sunk as a nation. The Chinese and Russians are building solders who are disciplined and willing to sacrifice. We’re building soldiers looking for a shoulder to cry on.

@@user-user-user-user. Where did I say I have PTSD from fixing radios? I said I maintained communications equipment. And by my logic, and every branch of the United States of America's military, your primary job IS infantry...Which is why you go to Basic Training before anything else. Everyone that has ever been in the military knows this. And since you didn't know that, then I'm guessing you were never in. I'll also guess that you're no psychologist or psychiatrist either, let alone ever even picked up a Psychology book seeing as how you think you should only get PTSD one way. The arrogance of you "red-blooded American" types and your go-to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" line. You're talking about people with PTSD. What makes you think it's so easy for them to do so? You must work for the VA.