re: A 50% increase in military spending. Not fiscally sound but some possible positives

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And yet collects a check for life @ 100% disabled.

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I can tell you crazier stuff than that. One of my favorites was a woman I know, a 1 star now, who did 6 years active duty then joined the reserves. Coming off active she had a disability of 50% because of a hysterectomy; that was just a standard percentage back then. In her ensuing career in the reserves she did several deployments on active duty. During those 6 months or whatever they were, her disability was halted because you can't get a disability AND active duty pay because that's illogical. When her deployments were over the disability pay resumed and weren't affected by her pay for being in the reserves.

And for every screwed up story like that there are people with legit problems and the VA fights them every step of the way. It's insane.