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This one is toughie for me--my hubby is a 22-year (Air Force) vet, 30% disabled...and "double-dip" (tax-free) money sure would be nice...BUT...his main disability is a knee-injury, sustained when he played on the base soccer team. He can still work full-time, and getting disability just seems so greedy !

But there are vets who saw combat and who lost limbs or were maimed while fighting for our freedoms, and they're struggling to make it on a pretty pitiful check (non-officer retiree pay is pretty slim), if they cannot work...those guys deserve to be taken care of.

>>This one is toughie for me--my hubby is a 22-year (Air Force) vet, 30% disabled...and "double-dip" (tax-free) money sure would be nice...BUT...his main disability is a knee-injury, sustained when he played on the base soccer team. He can still work full-time, and getting disability just seems so greedy !

That is the problem isn't it...provide a tremendous financial incentive for military to retire with a disability...and you know what? a whole lot more military are going to start retirng with carpal tunnel, soccer knees, hurt backs from playing football etc....now maybe if there could be put in place a system to differentiate between pure-combat related diabilities and all the other normal things that people can get hurt by.

I agree, retire from the service witha soccer injury really shouldn't be a reason to get two checks a month from the gov't...