Thank you Grimace, the VA has done great with me.. the doctors and other medical professionals have all been really good. so far it's been the unelected and unaccountable burecrats that have caused the problems... they where the ones that caused my dad and uncle from getting the care they earned by saying that there would have been signs of Agent Orange expsoure much sooner than what was happening.. even though the doctors and lab techs were saying that all the markers had been proven that they were indeed suffering from illneses related to that exposure. so the burecrats kept doing everything they could to keep from officially stating that was indeed what was happening. trying to pull every trick out to keep from having to give the 100% C&P for Agent Orange exposure and PTSD.
Heck, don't get me started on the MST i've been fighting with getting dealt with (yes, the evidence is missing from the NCIS archives and the bean-counters won't just take the ship's logs about the manhunt that was undertaken while we were out to sea and the Master-at-Arms cought wind that someone was stalking and threatening to rape me if he found me isolated somewhere on the ship so i was kept in the NIS agent aloat's office/quarters for six hours while they hunted for this asshole... but they can't find the NIS Agent Afloat's official reports. So it never happened. even with the ship's records showing what happened).
One of the best things that came out of the Bush 43 Admin was the reforms to the VA... the refurbishment of older facilities, the construction of new facilities, the streamlining the proceedures to get benefits, the modernization of the records system, ect. but the best in my oppinion, was allowing a veteran to get civilian lawyers (and other advocate groups like the DAV & VFW) to help them in their appeals instead of just relying upon the American Legion for that represtation.
it takes a while to get into the cue... but once you get in, and you have found the right primary care physician... you have a way to get treatment and get support. you just have to watch out for the burecrats screwing things up. but that's how anything goes now adays i guess.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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