[river rat]

Let me see if I have this right....

All those Blue Water Flag Officers - who came ashore to visit the whore houses of South Vietnam are therefore eligible to be Vietnam War Veterans since their feet and other body parts touched South Vietnamese “property” ——— but the Marine/Navy Carrier Pilots who overflew our positions and attacked forces opposed to us are merely “Vietnam Era Veterans”!!! Is there no depth to which the freaking imbeciles in Washington won’t stoop to?

Recent events involving Murtha, Reid, Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy, Delahunt, Durbin and then Obama’s selection by the DNC to run for President -— makes a very convincing argument that a lot of folks in our Government are Fxxking Insane.

[itsahoot]

All those Blue Water Flag Officers - who came ashore to visit the whore houses of South Vietnam are therefore eligible to be Vietnam War Veterans since their feet and other body parts touched South Vietnamese “property”

RHIP don'tca know.

[BIGLOOK]

What is this....shades of Nationalized Health Care? Just a little discrepancy to deny VA services to Navy and Marine aviators? Sailors and Fleet Marines?

While I was in DaNang, USN and USMC aviators off carriers landed there (in country) regularly for various reasons. They also landed at Cam Ranh; don't know about Tan Son Nhut in Saigon but it wouldn't surprise me.

Viet Nam vets served in country, in the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea and in the air over South and North VN. Their pay was tax free, postage free, they drew combat pay and flight pay for serving in a war zone. These were the Bennies to compensate putting up with the bullets, mortars and missiles.

I suppose the Bureaucracy of the VA is in a cost cutting mode while at the same time congress is pushing for increased funding for veterans of the current conflicts. Then again the VA hasn't been generous with timely treatments of vets of previous conflicts, especially those who served in Viet Nam. Hasn't the VA and the government stiffed us enough?