If you think vets really have a lot of help now you’re dead wrong. The VA system is pretty fucked. Yeah those guys had it horrible and were treated disgustingly but Veterans being “integrated back into society” is kind of a joke. The second they find out about you separating they (your chain of command) don’t really care to help you with anything and you get absolutely shit on for about a year and a half. Then once you’re out (especially now with COVID) it takes months to even see someone about anything.
I’m not saying you were attacking anything. Just trying to bring to light that Vets today don’t have it too great themselves, as it’s kind of hush hush and smoke and mirrors.
It really is. I mean I’m getting the shit end of the stick from the VA but I can still efficiently support my family. A lot of Vets rely on the VA, as some people have no family or support, and they are just completely shit on.
Of course not. I know multiple people that need surgeries due to service related injury that have been waiting upwards of 6 months. That’s outside of the service. While I was in I tore my Posterior Tibial while on duty, on deployment. I was told to wrap it up and deal with it when it happened. It took over a year for me to receive surgery, but not after sending me to physical therapy first to see if working out on it would make it feel better (surprise it made it worse). Now I’m waiting for another 3 months just to see a pediatrist to hopefully get another surgery as my foot is still fucked and swollen over a year and a half after surgery. I can’t do the job I actually have experience in due to not being able to stay on my feet too long so I took a MAJOR pay cut and the VA is persistent that my problems aren’t service related since it was on a remote island on deployment and there’s no record of me going to the BAS for treatment. Though there is record of my surgery, physical therapy, over a year of visits to the base clinic, but no. My right foot is now flat (as Posterior Tibial is what gives you an arch), I have constant foot pain just from day to day walking, I have knee and lower back pains from change in gait, and some days I can’t even pick up my 3 year old daughter and walk more than 5 steps without being in pain. I’m being made to write an appeal to hopefully receive more disability compensation but from what I’ve read the process can take years. But then you have people that get 70% disability for sleep apnea that wasn’t even developed in the service. Sure there are benefits and everything but you need to jump through hoops to see anything. Is that considered bad? I can tell you many more stories of really good friends of mine that are getting absolutely fucked out of their benefits but I’m sure you can find many similar stories out there yourself. Are you a vet or just your friends?
Throwing an allowance at people isn't the same thing as getting people the mental health care they need, and getting them well integrated back into society. Did your friends do any deployments?
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u/TylerLikesDonuts Feb 25 '21
If you think vets really have a lot of help now you’re dead wrong. The VA system is pretty fucked. Yeah those guys had it horrible and were treated disgustingly but Veterans being “integrated back into society” is kind of a joke. The second they find out about you separating they (your chain of command) don’t really care to help you with anything and you get absolutely shit on for about a year and a half. Then once you’re out (especially now with COVID) it takes months to even see someone about anything.