This won’t be popular, but serious question for the Vets on disability
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If you strip down naked, tuck your wiener, and flop around like a retard in a Chuck-E-Cheese ball pit on the floor of a mental institution... You might get close to that.
I got free PGA Hope golf lessons! First fucking thing in 30 years I've gotten for free, and it has zero to do with your tax dollars.
At my Legion Post there is a VA officer who researches and finds out how to get more out of uncle stupid for the members. It's like a fucking union, and they will go after anything that's offered. I don't particularly like it, but I'm also not going to tell the survivors of all those meat grinders they aren't owed either. On my list of ills the government perpetuates against us this one is very low, but it is a valid point. Plenty of people game the system.
At my Legion Post there is a VA officer who researches and finds out how to get more out of uncle stupid for the members. It's like a fucking union, and they will go after anything that's offered. I don't particularly like it, but I'm also not going to tell the survivors of all those meat grinders they aren't owed either. On my list of ills the government perpetuates against us this one is very low, but it is a valid point. Plenty of people game the system.
This is about where I am at. I don't like it but it is so low on my list of problems that I will put off worrying about it.
I tried a few different VSOs. The ones at my county courthouse were/are absolutely incompetent. I went to another county's VAC and the VSO told me to start lying about having headaches and start seeing a doctor for migraine meds to up my tinnitus rating...
So, I filed shit myself via help of some Youtube help and AI app. 80% in 1.5 months. Still working on 100% but I don't have to lie about a fucking thing. Then there is 100%, 100% P&T, and 100% TDIU. (Lower than 100% but still unemployable)
Really, I just needed help filing the right forms. 100% of this is presenting evidence in a clear manner and articulating your situation.
So, I filed shit myself via help of some Youtube help and AI app. 80% in 1.5 months. Still working on 100% but I don't have to lie about a fucking thing. Then there is 100%, 100% P&T, and 100% TDIU. (Lower than 100% but still unemployable)
Really, I just needed help filing the right forms. 100% of this is presenting evidence in a clear manner and articulating your situation.
They love to fuck up the effective date and intent to file also.
The best way to file is online. It's instant on record.
I have talked to a guy that is 100% disabled from Airforce. Yet is fit and abled enough to be work fulltime as FBI special agent.
Its all a game and a scam.
Really screws the guys who really need it. Also met a double leg amputee marine who became an airline pilot. 0% disabled. Because somehow stepping on an ied is not service related? My friend is not one to take handouts so as a civie i cant say if he ever pursued it. He never said, ive never asked. But damn he can fly a plane!
Your drunk pilot. Travel is not advised!!!
Corsairpilot
Its all a game and a scam.
Really screws the guys who really need it. Also met a double leg amputee marine who became an airline pilot. 0% disabled. Because somehow stepping on an ied is not service related? My friend is not one to take handouts so as a civie i cant say if he ever pursued it. He never said, ive never asked. But damn he can fly a plane!
Your drunk pilot. Travel is not advised!!!
Corsairpilot
Sounds like the Marine friend is a stand-up guy (pun intended). Hope he has many more good years in him.
Losing legs in the OIF/OEF era would normally get you a pretty decent TSGLI payment, plus disability. I've got a good friend who got $125K after his vehicle was hit by an RPG, and then immediately by a friendly fire Maverick from an A-10. He got the back of both legs blown off and burned pretty bad, but he kept his legs.
One of my boys that survived an IED to the face also got the $125K payout. He still has all of his limbs and functions, but he'll always look a bit like a haunted house actor.
Ironically, both dudes purchased new cars with that payout. A Mitsubishi Evo and Infinity G35 IIRC, not that it matters at all (just jogging my memory).
I'll gladly pay taxes to support stuff like that... it's the PTSD because 'a rocket hit my FOB once' dudes and dudettes that irritate me.
*** Again, I know nothing about the process or am going to pretend like I do. I was just around in a time when a lot of dudes got jacked up, and am recalling their experience.
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