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Harshness in training is one thing. Harshness for injured soldiers recently discharged from medical hospitals and waiting for medical retirement/discharge processing in medical hold is another.

Ever been in medical hold? I have. I nearly had my head blown clean off in a shipboard explosion. Medical boards and medical hold can go on forever.

The Military treats you until you are well enough to be discharged from the hospital, and then they send you to a hellhole like this to wait for the medical boards and the eventual medical retirement.

Part of the reason they do this is to get you to take the first offer they give you for pension, and therefore they save money.

It also aggravates the problems you have, and many are probably going to have to be re-hospitalized because of the conditions while they wait in the unsanitary hellhole barracks they are assigned to.

I have direct knowledge from my family that injured veterans were bitching about the same thing in WWII, Korea, and the Vietnam era, post Vietnam era, and modern times.

Its a "fine old tradition" that needs to end. These guys deserve to be treated with respect. They definitely arent "soft" because they were injured fighting a war.