Almost Half Of New Vets Seek Disability

[Philip Rogers]

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-almost-half-vets-seek-disability-160656481.html

Interesting.

pr

[john999]

I think vets today have the internet and are much smarter than other generations. They know to go looking on the internet for information. However, these multiple deployments are like dropping a cluster bomb on a marriage. Let's say a young marine enlists for 4 years. If he has to spend almost three years in combat zone that is just too much. Why would anyone want to re-enlist knowing they may be going back? Your luck is going to run out and you will be getting hurt or driven crazy, so maybe that is why there are more vets seeking disability. I don't think these wars are less violent than Vietnam, Korea or WWII. My father got disability for skin disease because he had to wear the same uniform for weeks/months living in dirt.

John