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.
He truly is! And i’ll tell him, he’ll get a laugh out of it. Sad to say it happened while i was in middle school. He is a great mentor on being a pilot and how to lead. Folks like that. Id gladly write a personal check to help.
Its the “ i never depolyed overseas but got 100% disability because ‘i fueled the drone that killed a guy’ then got hired on by the fbi as a gs15” type of folks that piss me off.
Ok so you served 10 years as a drone service tech. cool. Then gi bill to cover college, cool. You earned it. But then to go full time fbi agent at a gs15!!?? whilst (my understanding) collecting airforce retirement and 100% disability!!! No good mi amigo!!
Well, “they” set up the system and determine the payout. So it’s on “them” if they pay out. It’s not like it’s easy getting them to do so.
I hate when people who shouldn't get it do. No need for it. My disability is because of seizures. I had 16 yrs in when I got medically retired. I didn't have to go to any YT guru to get my 100 rating. My seizures rated me at 100.
The people that have to go to these people are a scam. If they didn't give you a rating because you didn't have anything wrong with you then that's fraud.
I also didn't try for anything. The VA has me go to 3 different exams when I was going through my med board. They looked at my medical records and rated me off of that. All I did was go to my exams.
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What? Are you and Mauser diaper shitting faggot lovers.Haven’t you been warned about getting @Maser hot…..
Piss off fucker
Add the forbidden word in this, "contractor."
I worked in Iraq/Kurdistan from 2006-2009 doing the security contractor gig. My job had me moving around the region frequently.
Fast forward to 2020. I get sick. Nobody can figure it out. I'm throwing up 10-12 times a day, and I had the hiccups for 9 months. I was life flighted twice over the shit. 6 lumbar punctures and 4 or 5 MRIs later and still no answers. I could not keep food down. Over that time period, I lost about 60lbs. I would go to the ER a few times a week to get a bag as it helped with dehydration.
One day the ER doc looks at me and gives me the "WTF speech/questionnaire." I answer what I can, and he disappears into his office to exercise his Google-Foo. A length of time goes by and he comes back out with, "I think you have this: Neuromyelitis Optica." I later bounce this off the neurologist, and she looks at me like a dick is growing from my face.
If only she'd listened. The ER doc nailed it. It's a disease similar to MS, only the plaque lesions grow on the brain instead of the spinal column. There are 4 versions of this disease. 3 can be found with a simple blood antibody test. #4 is a bit more evasive about detection. That is the one I have. Untreated, you lose your eyesight. (the optica part) There is no cure. Only management. I get an infusion 2x a year. It's some kind of immunosuppressant drug.
The interesting part: Prior to 20 years ago, this disease was virtually unheard of. It began to show up in the early 2,000s. Now, less than 20,000 people annually are diagnosed with the disease. The highest concentration is in Iraq. Oddly coincidental.
When you "contract," you fall under the US Dept of labor. You have 3 years from the date of departure to file for a medical issue. My symptoms showed up over a decade later.
FERKED is how that gets spelled...
I worked in Iraq/Kurdistan from 2006-2009 doing the security contractor gig. My job had me moving around the region frequently.
Fast forward to 2020. I get sick. Nobody can figure it out. I'm throwing up 10-12 times a day, and I had the hiccups for 9 months. I was life flighted twice over the shit. 6 lumbar punctures and 4 or 5 MRIs later and still no answers. I could not keep food down. Over that time period, I lost about 60lbs. I would go to the ER a few times a week to get a bag as it helped with dehydration.
One day the ER doc looks at me and gives me the "WTF speech/questionnaire." I answer what I can, and he disappears into his office to exercise his Google-Foo. A length of time goes by and he comes back out with, "I think you have this: Neuromyelitis Optica." I later bounce this off the neurologist, and she looks at me like a dick is growing from my face.
If only she'd listened. The ER doc nailed it. It's a disease similar to MS, only the plaque lesions grow on the brain instead of the spinal column. There are 4 versions of this disease. 3 can be found with a simple blood antibody test. #4 is a bit more evasive about detection. That is the one I have. Untreated, you lose your eyesight. (the optica part) There is no cure. Only management. I get an infusion 2x a year. It's some kind of immunosuppressant drug.
The interesting part: Prior to 20 years ago, this disease was virtually unheard of. It began to show up in the early 2,000s. Now, less than 20,000 people annually are diagnosed with the disease. The highest concentration is in Iraq. Oddly coincidental.
When you "contract," you fall under the US Dept of labor. You have 3 years from the date of departure to file for a medical issue. My symptoms showed up over a decade later.
FERKED is how that gets spelled...
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