Senator To Va:

[broncovet]

http://kidzexplore.com/article/20120301/NEWS01/703019890

This is the reason a leading Vets advocate recommends not calling the VA:

It wont do you any good, they wont give you reliable information, and they wont solve your problem.

Is this the treatment Vets deserve? I dont know why we put up with this, and I dont know how the VA gets away with it.

[autumn]

Is this the treatment Vets deserve? I dont know why we put up with this, and I dont know how the VA gets away with it. As far as the VA is concerned it is exactly what we deserve. We put up with because we are not organized. Oh! sure we have the VFW, DAV, VVA and a few other organizations that appear before congress but, hell they can't even get together on a common goal. The VA gets away with it because congress lets them. When you have a do nothing congress you will have a do nothing VA.

would it be a stretch to think that some of these service orgs have lost their way and are just a bit too "conflicted of interest" with the VA? expose & depose so the younger veterans do not have to go through years of what some of us have/are going through.

[autumn]

I wish Congress would stop the Smoke and Mirrors of the ILP. I haven't got anything out of them and I don't have any fight left in me. David

many of us who are injured and/or with illness are losing that fight in us. with age, years of fighting, the physical/psych stress from it, the crazy lies from the VA/VARO, etc.... we'll have to pick each other up a bit to carry on.

aren't they're any whistle blower's in VA and VARO?? surely there are some there that can see and smell the sh!t there. i'm talking of the bad ones not lumping in the few good ones.

[john999]

A very small percentage of the US population uses the VA system. That percentage is gettting smaller every day as the Vietnam Era vets begin to die off. Only .01% of the population is active duty military today. There is no draft. Unless there is a big war soon the vet population will continue to shrink as will our clout. The time when vets had the most clout was right after WWII. I cannot see why anyone would join the military today if they have any other options. Not many other career options where you get left by the side of the road as road kill after ten years.

John999

[Pete53]

John999

Many forget that there are many young patriots in this country and when Al Quaida attacked us many joined to fight for US. It's always been like that and always will.

There are many reasons young people join; in my day a lot had a choice. Go to jail or join the Army.

[john999]

Thinking of what you are saying it is true that there are guys and gals that for no good reason I can think of will go dow to the recruiter's office and join up to be warriors because they like it. More power to them and we need them there in place to train the country's future draftees and reluctant volunteers who just want to survive the experience. I will be the first to admit I did not like the army. I thought the forts I was at were just slums. The pay was bad and the time in history to serve was probably one of the worst. I do still feel that injured lower ranking soldiers are most liable to just be boarded out and left to deal with a life time of disability. I know conditions now are much better from what I hear, but back to back combat deployments really suck.

I feel our nation has no gratitude except a small paycheck and some education help if you are able to use it at the time. Pete, in our day we did have the draft breathing down our necks so that was an inducement to join the Navy, AF or even the Marines (???) rather that wait for the army and the possible 11bravo MOS AIT assignment. Now thousands of young men join up asking for 11B. The guy who went crazy and killed those people in Afghanistan was an 11B and had 3-4 combat tours in Iraq and they sent him back for number 5 11B tour to Afghanistan before he cracked I guess. That is more than what most guys in WWII suffered and what guys in Vietnam suffered.

John