Have they considered not sending a bunch of kids to get maimed in proxy wars on the other side of the Earth?
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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Don’t worry, they’re now sending them to the other side of the earth to a place called Los Angeles.
But how is the military industrial complex supposed to keep up its obscene profit margins then? Checkmate libruls!
I make significantly less at 100% rating than I would if I had been able to stay in my career since I was medically separated or if I was able to do the same thing as a civilian (easily over 6 figures). It's still much more than poverty level, but the $46k I'll get this year just can not compete with what I could have had.
I know that much of the value in my benefits is free medical though, and that adds up fast when you suddenly have pronounced weakness in half your body and doctors can't figure out why
The American tax payer has no obligation to support a foreign nation; it has a responsibility to support those who guarded its walls.
Fuck whoever drew that cartoon.
And Israel, fuck it too.
The cartoon is being sarcastic.
What's the context? It would be good to know who's saying this (random poster? clickbait headline? Influencer?)
The VA system has an absurd level of abuse and fraud. One can find a lot of former members that are "100% disabled" that are easily holding full time jobs without issues, and screwed up vets that couldn't get a rating at all.
I have no clue how it could be fixed, and I want people to get the support they need, but the amount of abuse of the system is staggering.
I think part of it is the culture of some MOS to document every little thing, and combat MOS culture of never reporting anything medical
I know someone who is 100% disabled and works a full time job. That job sucks, frankly. People look down on him for working in customer service, but his body is too broken to enter the trades, and his mental health is too poor to attend college (even though it would be free through the GI bill). I don't even think he needs the money, he just wants to be "normal" and he doesn't mind the work. He and his wife do not live lives of luxury and their kids seem happy.
He would not be able to support his family on this low-paid job he has. His wife also works.
Perhaps the problem isn't disabled vets getting paid, maybe the problem is that we keep sending them out to die for oil. Maybe the problem is that life in America is hard for anyone who isn't in the top 10%.
I do not think that you realize how difficult it is for veterans to receive benefits from the VA. All the hoops they need to jump through only to be declined. I work with two vets. Yes in a full time job. One has serious issues with his knees that after 3 years is still trying to get benefits from those service related injuries. The other was medically discharged due to his body getting fucked up from multiple combat missions. The kicker? He was originally denied benefits for the exact same thing he was discharged for. These men and women signed up with the military and were 8 times out of 10 sent into some some sort of combat situation where they received some sort of physical damage or "saw some shit" that fucked them up mentally...you know nightmares, freaking out from sudden noises, etc. So how are these men and women "abusing the system" when it damn near takes an act of god to get these benefits? You seriously need to get your facts straight.
Fr. My cousins’ dad just got declared like 80% and it took forever. The only reason he did it was because his ex wife (cousins’ mom) insisted on him sticking with it. He’s able to hold down his job for now, but nobody expects him to make it to the end of the year before he has to retire
I'm more concerned with the folks not getting aid because they think the process is so dreadful. It's complicated and tedious, but doable, and the determinations are generally pretty strict. I got a high rating without combat experience, but I also can't lift anything heavy and expect to move the next day without cry-in-the-car back pain. Like, I moved a table the other day and couldn't stand up the next day. I also know people with exposure to toxic waste, with fucking tumors, who refuse to seek help because it would seem weak or the process is too daunting. It's not weak to need help and it's not justifiable the damage we're asked to do to ourselves.
However, I have also seen people get 100% rating and have no apparent difficulty functioning, but they had enough little things add up to maximize their rating. So probably part of it is the calculation, but impact to quality of life and function is difficult to quantify fairly.
That being said, a lot (I mean a LOT) of waste could be cut from the contract process. I've seen tens of millions go to waste simply because the government didn't agree to a contract that couldn't be provided by anyone else by the close out date, and during renegotiation the company doubled the price for work that was already done.
Man, if more people were to understand the MEB/VA disability rating system they would know better. Service in any branch is HARD work and they do not make it easy to understand or get through the ridiculous process that it is to even get on the disabled roster.
In the VA disability rating system 1+1=0.6. To the point, you are given a rating of a percentage of your ability to continue serving your contract. So if youre considered 50% disabled for your primary complaint, any other disability complaint is not added directly to that value. It is considered another percentage of the portion left after the previous complaint so; 50% + 50% = 75%
Getting 100% disabled from the VA is a huge pain in the ass, because if you know anything about percentages it would technically be impossible to attain 100%
Facts. Also a lot of people that exit the military do not understand how dreadfully fucked their body and mind is until about 55 when their shit falls apart and their non-military buddies are running marathons because they need a new challenge, but they’re struggling moving at all.
And to your point - the VA distance from 90% disabled to 100% disabled is another 90%. People that are getting 100% for multiple cumulative issues are truly jacked.
I scolded my squad leader at one point for not getting seen. He stopped during a hike to stretch his back because his legs were going numb. He still didn't go to medical lol.
Most of the people I know getting high amounts of disability are retiring after 20+ years and have many physical and mental issues. It's becoming more common due to accessibility of medical care, including mental health services.
My father, a Vietnam vet, has been 100% service connected disabled since 1996 for hearing loss in one ear attributed to his position as a gunner on a tank. He isn't deaf and has played in country bands for most of his life. I once researched the amounts he'd receive from 1996 to now with near yearly increases. A man that bought his home and paid for it for at $600 in 1974 has received nearly a million dollars since 96.
Per VA regs and compensation charts, unilateral hearing loss maxes out at 30%. A 100% rating requires bilateral total deafness or additional factors (like other combined conditions or unemployability).