re: Veterans Claiming 100% Disability

I know a couple shite bag privates who have gotten out with disability for doing nothing. They'll get $400 a month for the rest of their life that they didn't earn so whatever. Tonight I had a conversation with my neighbor who's a retired Smoke. He missed the Gulf War because he was a drill sergeant at Fort Sill and retired before Iraq/Afghanistan. Pretty sure he's a 100 percent DAV and I'm far as I'm concerned he earned it. Anybody who disagrees can go spend 20 years in a triple 7 battery and tell me how they feel.

I was on the other end of those Triple 7's. I went with the infantry, I was their support when the SHTF. I spent 18 years in with 6 deployments to Afghanistan and 1 to Iraq. I was in northern Afghanistan where the terrain is rugged and brutal. My back is shot, I get an epidural every few months for pain management, I can't stop the ringing in my ears, my knees sound like rice crispy's, I was blown up in Iraq but it was before they started with the baseline testing so no ratings for a TBI, I forget shite all the time. My notes app is full of random crap for reminders, my vision in my left eye is almost gone but it's not "service related" and I can't hear shite. I just nod and hope it wasn't a question.

I am one of those that suffer in silence, I go to the gym every few days, I work in a physically demanding career. But when I get home I can't move, I wake up and I need to oil my joints to work. But everyone in this thread go ahead and judge the book by the cover. We learned while serving that we can't show weakness and we live it even after we get out. We suffer in silence and appear normal to the world.

Oh Memorial Day Suck arse. Don't tell a vet thank you, instead ask him for a story about someone who's no longer with us.

Same. My broken back got me 50% at retirement and a bunch of service connected 0’s that eventually added up to a 100% P&T with 10% of that being for tinnitus.

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I was on the other end of those Triple 7's. I went with the infantry, I was their support when the SHTF. I spent 18 years in with 6 deployments to Afghanistan and 1 to Iraq. I was in northern Afghanistan where the terrain is rugged and brutal. My back is shot, I get an epidural every few months for pain management, I can't stop the ringing in my ears, my knees sound like rice crispy's, I was blown up in Iraq but it was before they started with the baseline testing so no ratings for a TBI, I forget shite all the time. My notes app is full of random crap for reminders, my vision in my left eye is almost gone but it's not "service related" and I can't hear shite. I just nod and hope it wasn't a question.

I am one of those that suffer in silence, I go to the gym every few days, I work in a physically demanding career. But when I get home I can't move, I wake up and I need to oil my joints to work. But everyone in this thread go ahead and judge the book by the cover. We learned while serving that we can't show weakness and we live it even after we get out. We suffer in silence and appear normal to the world.

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ok well if all that is true, then we arent talking about you.

also, you sound like Eeyore. good grief, man.