New Requirements to Acquire VA Disability for PTSD

11/25/2025 | Ducttape45

[KitJ]

I admit there’s fraud. No doubt. I think the VA does a tremendous amount of screening in recent years to filter that out.

I knew a LTC who, for his three last years on active duty was on sick call or at appointments nearly every workday. He printed out all of his documentation after each appointment. By the time he retired, his medical file was a measured 13” tall, stacked. I think he had one short deployment early in Iraq. His main issue was arthritis, otherwise generally healthy. He pored through the VA disability manuals one by one and made claims for darn near everything in the book short of traumatic amputations. 100%.

On the other hand, I worked with a dozen or so Soldiers, especially NCOs, who had limbs blown off in combat, burns, missing eyes, missing ears, who declined medical discharge and continued to serve in non-deployment roles in the rear. There was a special Army program Around ‘08 to allow wounded troops to continue to serve. Don’t know if that’s still around or if other services had same? High honor for those Patriots!