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Agreed, you will not believe how many guys are going in there and crying and getting 100% disability.

My husband married me 7 years ago. Prior to that for years he bounced from place to place and job to job, no one ever lived with him long. Why? He would not complain if he had a nail sticking out of his head. He had nightmares every night for years. I won't go into the whole thing, but I will say that I got him the help and he is much better, but it burns me up that these posers in many cases are getting 100%.

To me it's not the money. The Army sent him back damaged, they should have fixed him. Course had they fixed him, he would not have been available to meet me most likely. But I know some of this 100% is BS, from an inside source.

But I know some of this 100% is BS, from an inside source.
I've known it's BS for decades. A former fellow Marine I worked with was an engineer (not a grunt) and brought home an NVA helmet he found in 1969.
Twenty years later he's at the VA whining he can't stop thinking about the guy who wore it. Oooooh, woe is me, PTSD, where's my money?

Two weeks ago I had lunch with a guy I went to HS with. He was Air Farce at Cam Rahn Bay ... i.e., in the rear with the gear.
During lunch he announces he's going to the VA because when TET Offensive broke out (45 years ago!), they made him put on a helmet and gave him a rifle, just in case.
His complaint? He was AF and never trained to fight and now he has nightmares. Oooooh, woe is me, PTSD, where's my money?