Comments on: VBA Getting New Director, Marines Getting Lousy Care for PTSD. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/11/21/vba-getting-new-director-marines-getting-lousy-care-for-ptsd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vba-getting-new-director-marines-getting-lousy-care-for-ptsd Military Veterans and Foreign Affairs Journal - VA - Veterans Administration Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:54:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Moreland http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/11/21/vba-getting-new-director-marines-getting-lousy-care-for-ptsd/comment-page-1/#comment-31761 Gary Moreland Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:45:46 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=9474#comment-31761 Shame on our government for wanting to give the Blue Water vets a rediculously hard time just because we served on board ship. I wonder how some of them would have reacted if they had heard "Gentlemen, you're now in the war zone". What would have gone through their mind everytime darkness became light from fire fights all night long as you did missions on the coastline? Would they so readily accept that agent orange couldn't possibly have drifted past the shoreline? After witnessing first hand VA's snails pace and lack of decency in treatment of "all vets", I have to say I'm no closer to trusting them than I was 39 years ago. God bless our troops and our vets. Shame on our government for wanting to give the Blue Water vets a rediculously hard time just because we served on board ship. I wonder how some of them would have reacted if they had heard “Gentlemen, you’re now in the war zone”. What would have gone through their mind everytime darkness became light from fire fights all night long as you did missions on the coastline? Would they so readily accept that agent orange couldn’t possibly have drifted past the shoreline? After witnessing first hand VA’s snails pace and lack of decency in treatment of “all vets”, I have to say I’m no closer to trusting them than I was 39 years ago. God bless our troops and our vets.

]]> By: John Evans http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/11/21/vba-getting-new-director-marines-getting-lousy-care-for-ptsd/comment-page-1/#comment-31708 John Evans Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:59:09 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=9474#comment-31708 Things have change and we Veterans must fight back. www.mistreatedvets.com Things have change and we Veterans must fight back.

http://www.mistreatedvets.com

]]> By: Alton http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/11/21/vba-getting-new-director-marines-getting-lousy-care-for-ptsd/comment-page-1/#comment-31701 Alton Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:44:54 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=9474#comment-31701 Yeah, I remember a lonng time ago when I was evaluated for my PTSD (still refused BTW). The counselor took me to the VA's dining hall and inside they were banging on pats and pans and this was an indicator of, if the noise did not bother me then I didn't have PTSD. He didn't understand that Aircraft Carriers have very large dining halls (called mess decks) and the noise there is much louder than what I heard. But even so I have never heard of a pot attacking me, but I have known of an airplane that had my name in mind. I remember one time in the middle of the afternoon, the whole ship stopped launching and recovering A/Cs, nothing was moved, no traffic, no radio noise nothing, AND I woke up, listened for any noise and thought to myself "hmmm, wonder if I'm in hell? but uhh, if I am why did I take the carrier with me"? So I got up and walked around the ship till I saw someone else (who didn't look 'spiritual) and then I went back to bed. Told my guys about it and they thought was crazy. Yeah, I remember a lonng time ago when I was evaluated for my PTSD (still refused BTW). The counselor took me to the VA’s dining hall and inside they were banging on pats and pans and this was an indicator of, if the noise did not bother me then I didn’t have PTSD.
He didn’t understand that Aircraft Carriers have very large dining halls (called mess decks) and the noise there is much louder than what I heard. But even so I have never heard of a pot attacking me, but I have known of an airplane that had my name in mind. I remember one time in the middle of the afternoon, the whole ship stopped launching and recovering A/Cs, nothing was moved, no traffic, no radio noise nothing, AND I woke up, listened for any noise and thought to myself “hmmm, wonder if I’m in hell? but uhh, if I am why did I take the carrier with me”? So I got up and walked around the ship till I saw someone else (who didn’t look ‘spiritual) and then I went back to bed. Told my guys about it and they thought was crazy.

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