Well put Red, and thank you for your service.
New Prospective,
I have seen this problem for a number of years. Those that need, can’t get And my own world of the military is no different. The world of political correctness is just a tool to accomplish a goal, in this case financial.
I am assigned to a joint base for my followup work and like most bases/posts in the CONUS, we have a commissary. Now military people have a greater amount of disabled in percentage than the outside world. However, our person in charge of parking setups for the facility has determined that he/she should take out disabled parking and add pregnant women slots. And even when they did have disabled slots, they are further away from the door they the women’s slots. So in other words, they are giving slots to pregnant women that wanted to get that way, while punishing disabled vets that were handed what they got. Of course this is the same person that establish a Medal of Honor slot, of which I understand we have 10 of those brave people in the area, but co-assigned it to a general officer also. And with our tradition and our respect of people like this, no officer worth anything would park there to take away the slot if it was needed. So that slot sits vacant most of the time.
And it perturbs me fully when people that didn’t have to face the things some did, and still do, can sit around in their little world and say things like having a bean counter say who is sick and who isn’t thus creating a priority (peck order). And I warn you, that same possibility is written into the healthcare law and can be utilized if it isn’t already.
BTW, thanks for the thought but I chose to serve the military. It was an honorable profession when I joined. It’s got too many rules about how to fight now that I’m glad I am not hamstrung with. I wouldn’t be here if I followed all them.
You have a safe day,
red