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Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:08 pm to Vacherie
I have no problem with combat vets getting anything they need, but I do think there needs to be tiers and levels of support for veterans.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:08 pm to SuperSaint
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SuperSaint
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trashy and sad
:yep:
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:19 pm to Ozarkshillbilly
quote:Amen!
FWIW, I don't mind the vets getting more money. To me, it's way better than the illegals or folks who've drawn money and never gave our country anything back.
I'll never talk trash on a veteran. I appreciate their service.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:19 pm to Vacherie
I know a 100% that is also an active green jeans. It's really a scam but support war and whatnot.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:25 pm to SouthernInsanity
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Because dickhead... when you use the term, VET, you're referring to ALL of them. And unless you've been there and done that... just sit down. If you have and you're getting VA COMPENSATION, because it's not a VA Disability... then great. If you're not, have not and never plan to... then just sit down.
You sound like someone who is getting 100% disability and feeling pretty insecure about it.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:28 pm to Vacherie
That’s a lot
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:29 pm to RT1941
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I'll never talk trash on a veteran
Tim Walz?
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:29 pm to Winterbush
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Got full benefits including VA home loan for a house with just a $5,000 downpayment
Well, that makes no sense. VA loans don’t require ANY downpayment, only a funding fee which is rolled into your loan.
Furthermore, a vet with a VA rating pays NO funding fee.
If you’re going to spew jealousy, at least get the facts right.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:29 pm to Vacherie
Yes I have an uncle who receives a check for around 5k a month for his time in the navy during Vietnam but he was enlisted in the early 70’s when the war was almost done. He didn’t even touch land in Vietnam. He gets out and has struggled with heroin addiction his whole life. Somehow he goes to the VA in L.A. a few years ago and got this sweet deal for the rest of his life. I think he blamed the navy for his drug addiction and now is set for life…
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:39 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:quote:Tim Walz?
I'll never talk trash on a veteran
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:51 pm to Vacherie
I know one that’s getting a VA disability check, not sure what percentage, but he’s in law enforcement full time and is in the gym daily.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 5:57 pm to Sam Quint
Amazing the number of people that don't know the difference between disability and compensation.
And hey sam quint... if you're 100%, what's there to be ensure about? It's my own tax money so why worry about it.
And hey sam quint... if you're 100%, what's there to be ensure about? It's my own tax money so why worry about it.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:02 pm to LNCHBOX
How can you complete 2 careers while “disabled”? “Disability” doesn’t work that way for anyone else but veterans. If you claim social security disability you can’t earn more than like $1650 a month or you will lose your disability benefits. BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DISABLED!
Disability is SUPPOSED to make up for lost wages due to an inability to earn a living. Servicemembers can serve for TWENTY YEARS in the MILITARY while supposedly disabled, then get out and get an another FULL TIME JOB for another 20 years, while 100% disabled.
Meanwhile actual disabled people live in abject poverty, VA hospitals are understaffed and facilities are old and decrepit.
Disability is SUPPOSED to make up for lost wages due to an inability to earn a living. Servicemembers can serve for TWENTY YEARS in the MILITARY while supposedly disabled, then get out and get an another FULL TIME JOB for another 20 years, while 100% disabled.
Meanwhile actual disabled people live in abject poverty, VA hospitals are understaffed and facilities are old and decrepit.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:12 pm to SouthernInsanity
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Some of you act like a military "retirement" is all that great. You gotta have a lot of active duty years and rank to make anything over $3k a month... which is taxable. And again, the VA is compensation... not disability!!!!
You’re the one who doesn’t know what they are talking about. It’s compensation for being DISABLED. It’s in the damn name! It’s not retirement.
Heres the web address, notice the last word?!?
LINK
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:12 pm to SouthernInsanity
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Amazing the number of people that don't know the difference between disability and compensation
Amazing how many people play word games to justify their sense of entitlement.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:15 pm to gdzgft28
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They can serve 20 years, retire with a military pension AND 100% disability, then go work for the federal government for 20 years and retire with social security AND a federal pension
You make itt sound like anyone can do 40 years at such a level standing on their head.
Flip the script:
Enlist in the US Army at 18 right out of high school. Go into combat arms MOS, get deployed to Afghanistan and get shot at, blown up and subjected to repeated concussions and TBI breaching, building and destroying…all before you can legally drink a beer,
Fast forward body wear tear training courses like Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault and Sapper Course and “morale building” ruck marches and constant training by time you’re on 2nd enlistment and another deployment now to Iraq where you’re now in charge of 8-15 other humans amped up on Monster, Skoal and hormones.
All of this as your high school classmates haven’t even finished their grad school drinking lattes and chasing skirts back home while you’re beginning to deal with constant back pain from humping 60-80 lbs of gear and constant mental drain of hypervigilance.
I could go on and on about the deployments, PCS moves, family struggles, more physical and mental pain over the next 12 years to get to 20 to be able to “retire” at 38 with 50% of base pay. If you’re unable to make it to 20 and Uncle Sam forces you out, that’s another conundrum.
So with your 38 year old body that feels like it’s 50, you get the “privilege” to make a run at another career. This of course will be easy to do as your physical and mental challenges sustained from 20 years of deployments/combat/train ups/moves definitely will not affect your new career…not.
Instead of crapping on such a person - like me and others who are thankful for the real privilege to have served and now trying to make our new way on “the outside” - how about just say thank you and be thankful that others did so you didnt have to.
This post was edited on 5/21/25 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:18 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
I had a coworker whom needed just a few little bumps to make it to 100%. Last thing she claimed was hemorrhoids that she got while pregnant in the service.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:21 pm to WildernessTraveler7
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WildernessTraveler7
Posted on 5/21/25 at 6:30 pm to Vacherie
There’s 2 types of maximum disability, 100% and 100T&P (Total and Permanent). The T&P s self explanatory. I think the ones you are seeing at work won’t be 100% forever.
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