“I suppose that the many thousands of other vets who go through this purposeful maze should just suck it up? Quit their whining and be glad that they’re getting something at all?”
Exactly!
He’s able-bodied. He’s doing the ‘my S wouldn’t be this bad if I hadn’t joined the military’ compensation filing to get VA medical care $$$ vs Tricare plus the tax deduction. Complete BS. Intending to sponge off injured veterans’ benefits. It’s worse than the PV2 that gets VA disability for falling out the latrine window when he’s drunk.
I could care less what points his letter makes, his reasoning is all “me, me, me, me, me”. So good rationale is wasted on self-centered intent. WTF makes his claim more important than the outstanding claims of Line of Duty injured and incapacitated vets? His sense of self importance, entitlement and dependency?
He’s not speaking for injured Veterans going through the VA process. He’s speaking for himself, hoping for a VA rating to supplement his retirement. Is he injured? Is he on a Cat-3 profile? Was he medically boarded? Does he even have a VA rating? No to all! He’s not speaking for injured vets, he’s mooching off them!
His self-centeredness is well known to me. It’s typical of marginal Privates and risk-averse REMFs. That attitude is POISON when it gets into a platoon. It breaks cohesion, morale and jeopardizes missions. I’ve listened to it time-and-time again from malcontents and misfits. What’s next, a diatribe on the palatability of MREs and the burden of camo netting?
IMO a just outcome would be a 15-6 on his A followed by a court martial, no settlement, and enough BS for him to write about for the next 20 years as he wanders around complaining about how “the military did it to me man”.
Court martial his A if for no other reason than to save all the injured veterans the distress of having to listen to his S in the VA hospital waiting rooms.
I say this as a Line of Duty injured VA patient who post-ETS navigated the VA system and waited my turn while totally incapacitated and disabled.
Whew! For a minute there, I figured the MSgt. was just applying for benefits he actually qualified for.
Never would of thought someone here on FR actually served with the man and knows everything about him and that he's just a REMF milking the system and robbing you of yours.