“The problem is, other people get it without being near those sorts of fires.”
This is quite true. The same goes for just about any other disease a person can get in a war zone. My understanding with regard to service members, is there needs to be scientific evidence a particular wartime scenario causes a disease, then they compare the number of war veterans with the disease percapita to those veterans that never went overseas. If the war vets get the disease at a much higher rate, then it’s considered service connected.
How much money a person makes is not the issue, it’s compensation for serving their country coupled with coming home with a disease they never had any idea they’d ever get.
With many veteran compensation and/or medical is highly contested. Maybe the best way to solve the issue is to just shut down the army, navy and AF.
I agree with that preponderance of cases theory.
I’m certainly not against people being compensated for just reasons.