Posted on 04/02/2016 5:21:26 PM PDT by huldah1776
Any other vets targeted or is this accepted practice through directives?
Another article:
Veteran who was denied VA benefits has died
don’t know why preview didn’t come up as usual...
“PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
There has been a devastating development in a story we first reported a month ago.
Army veteran John Marshall was fighting terminal cancer while at the same time, fighting the Phoenix VA for service-related benefits for his time served. Sadly, Marshall died this week. He was only 31 years old.
[READ: Army veteran dying of cancer fights for VA benefits]
Marshall left his hospital bed to share one of his dying wishes back in late February. “I just want the benefits for my family and for the kids and that’s why I’m doing this so it’s very tough,” he said.
Sadly, the husband and father of two young children lost his battle with soft tissue sarcoma on Tuesday night. He was still waiting to be granted benefits from the VA healthcare system.
Little Riley and her brother Colt don’t know their dad died yet. His wife Ashley doesn’t know how she’s going to take care of them now. “I’m a teacher and you don’t make a lot of money doing that, and that’s something I always wanted to do,” she said.
Marshall was a decorated combat veteran who tied his cancer to hours spent over burn pits in Iraq. The VA said it was a developmental defect. “When it came through and he was denied everything, it was very much a shock to him and to us,” she said.”
Posted: Mar 31, 2016 7:57 PM EST
Updated: Apr 01, 2016 3:47 PM EST
By Ashleigh Barry
Obama is taking that money to give to muslim “refugees” inside America.
30 plus years of service and 100% disability plus regular employment? He should be able to afford to pay his own bills.
One of my sons is a disabled vet. Obama sure has done nothing to fix the VA. My son has to travel over an hour one way to see the doctors he is assigned to see.
My family had to fight them for my sister in law , father in law and grandfather . You just have to keep fighting them when they turn you down like this .
I hope your comment is sarcasm.
Now Moochelle is REALLY proud of this country.
“He should be able to afford his own bills “
Really? The guy serves 28 year, then gets called to active duty, is severely wounded, permanently. The VA takes a way a benefit he is entitled to and that is your response? I hope the govt. takes away some of your benefits some day. What a nice guy you are.
Paging Donald Trump.
E-9 with over 30 years? Probably around $50,000 a year. 100 percent disability on top of that because he’s unable to work (no offset under CRSC). Same job he had pre-injury on top of that because he is able to work.
Lots of blind folks functioning on their own without those resources.
You don’t know what his retirement benefit is. Apparently, some of his service was in the Reserve Component and some was on Individual Ready Reserve. Your assumptions are flying out of your butt.
Try doing the math. Served with distinction from 1975. Went on IRR in 2003. 28 years. Active duty 2005. Injured 2006. Retired 2010. So roughly 33 years. I rounded down to ‘over 30’. Retired as a sergeant major (E-9). If he retired now, it would be over $60k. I was making a generous adjustment down because it was 6 years ago, and not allowing anything for COLA.
We have the same situation. And benefits denied for an ER visit to a non-VA facility, due to it was determined that his status was not serious enough.
You’ve missed one piece. In what component or components did he serve between 1975 and 2001? The could have been Regular Army, National Guard (either Title 10 or Title 32 or normal drill status) or Army Reserve with their many permutations. This article doesn’t tell what credit he had for retirement purposes. No doubt he was retired for military disability, but that doesn’t answer the question of what his retirement check looks like.
His VA with 100% and S rate for the 70% disability puts him at over 3200 from the VA alone. He has over 100K most likely combined. I recall my Col from Vietnam before he died he was an LTC (30) plus 100 % VA. He had over 10k a month. I do recall when the NCO’s I had got very little as I recall MSG’s over 20 with 1300 something and his VA was offset. Later he did well.
Pretty impressive if he made E-9 and served with distinction as a weekend warrior. Don’t have the numbers for 2010, but in 2013 there were only 3,687 E-9s (well less than 1%) in the entire US Army.
Thanks. That’s the aspect where I didn’t have any information.
So Called “Weekend warriors” can be found at all ranks from Private to General. The higher the rank, the more likely that they are an M-Day soldier as the full time positions tend to be lower grades. Of course, to make E-9 you are not just showing up on drill days.
Your number is for Active Duty only. Add 2102 for the Army National Guard and 1476 for the Army Reserve.
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