For real injuries this is very disgraceful. I just want to make sure they don’t open a door for some to pull Jahn Kerries, i.e. enlist for a $20,000 bonus and then “get hurt”, take the money and run. No mental type disabilities should be allowed, only bona-fide REAL injuries.
Rieckoff and the IAVA loathe you right now.
You know how many guys did a couple months and are going for 100% and life pay with them? That’s their whole ‘purpose’ PTSD... oh, and getting out of Iraq. The Pubs offered them over double what they asked for tricare/more for PTSD vets... they turned it down, because it wouldn’t end the war.
Mental illness (if so diagnosed by a physician) IS a real disability, just as wounds and other physical diseases are. Sorry, but you are mistaken on this. John Kerry, as I understand it, used a loophole to leave Vietnam (3 Purple Hearts and bye-bye). It looks as if he either put himself in for the awards or used minor, self-inflicted wounds to justify them. A soldier that develops a psychosis in Iraq is not comparable to Kerry's alleged fakery, and I resent the comparison.