Most vets do not have student loan debt loads like the free loaders. They have GI bills that pay for college.
What we are talking about are people who joined the military with a bunch of student loan debt and now are claiming to be disabled. But as has been noted by others here you have to jump through some hoops and apparently only those who retired with 100% disability are going to get it... at least to begin with until the sharp attorneys start loosening the strings.
I am very familiar with the educational benefits provided by the military. We have several family members taking advantage of them right now. Our niece who spent a year in Qatar doing administrative work on the big airbase there is currently going to school and getting paid because she claims she has PTSD from her military service. Her mother who also did administrative work stateside retired on a 100% disability as an E-8 Senior Master Sergeant is getting both her normal retirement plus an amount from the military for being 100% disabled along with a disability benefit from Social Security which she paid into very briefly before joining the military. I don't even know what is suppose to be wrong with her other than she is in her 50s, drinks and smokes too much, is obese and takes a lot of medications.
I ran a family lumber mill business before I became a firefighter. One time I hired this guy for some part time work who was in his mid 20s to help a lumber grader who was in his 80s sort through a bunch of 8ft. 2x4s and put a stud stamp on them.
I didn't expect them to be fireballs at it. They were keeping up a pace that was way less than half what the output of one of our machines if we were ripping them in half or surfacing rough lumber and grading them. Since it was more of a re-stacking exercise and our old lumber grader wasn't much of a conversationalist it was probably not a lot of fun for the guy. So after a couple of days the guy didn't show up for work and I couldn't get in touch with him. I didn't think too much about it because this is what you deal with when you hire transient labor. Our 80 year old lumber grader said the kid was just slowing him down anyway.
So a month later I got a call from a State Industrial Insurance inspector who wanted to come into our place and investigate “the mishap” that caused the 25 year old to become 100% disabled. We were all incredulous, but at least back then they investigated this type of nonsense. I was told this still might raise our industrial insurance rates which were already a sizable percentage of what we paid our workers. So the inspector came in and tried to verify what had happened and the kid had some type of back doctor and attorney on board, but of course it was all nonsense. So after his claim ran into trouble he came by with some sob story and then I got a threatening letter and call from his attorney. But they all gave up shortly afterward, but if I had played along that lazy kid would probably still be collecting money for nothing to this day.
And as I alluded to previously firefighters are famous for this kind of nonsense. My next door neighbor's son worked a long time getting his back disability from the Air Force, after a couple years he finally got the big payoff. But he now wants to become a fire fighter and he doesn't understand why even the volunteer departments won't touch him. I tried to explain to him that if you are claiming to have a back disability which was the PTSD disability of previous generations, no fire department in the world is going to take you, and your disability benefit is probably going to go away also.