As long as political hacks, like Michael Michuad, the Maine Congressman that came out publicly as a sodomite while running for Governor and lost, can get these soft comfy no work VA appointments when they not longer have an elected job, nothing will change.
I will defend Michael Michaud in that his questions to the DoD records folks caused the Army to admit that its records collection system is broken and no unit records were being collected for posterity for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Please note that the Army did NOT loose individual soldier 201 personnel files or individual medical records. But the records, that normally go to NARA for preservation are used to verify individual soldier claims.
He sent specific questions to the Army based upon investigative reporter Peter Sleeth’s Stars and Stripes article :
https://www.propublica.org/article/army-says-war-records-gap-is-real-launches-recovery-effort
initial article at: http://www.propublica.org/article/congressmen-to-hagel-where-are-the-missing-war-records