Wouded And Waiting - Political Forum

CHUQ · 02-18-2007, 05:42 AM

I was going to hi-lite some of this story, but could decide which part. Please read.

Wounded and waiting

A slow medical evaluation process leaves many injured troops in limbo

Wounded and waiting - Military News, Marine Corps News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Marine Corps Times

These types of stories should be in the news. The US sent these people, they got hurt, The US is responsible for their care. PERIOD!

Tumbleweed · 02-18-2007, 08:16 AM

Good article CHUQ.

It's a national embarrassment how we treat our veterans.IMO.

george.d · 02-18-2007, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by CHUQ

I was going to hi-lite some of this story, but could decide which part. Please read.

Wounded and waiting

A slow medical evaluation process leaves many injured troops in limbo

Wounded and waiting - Military News, Marine Corps News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Marine Corps Times

These types of stories should be in the news. The US sent these people, they got hurt, The US is responsible for their care. PERIOD!

Another result of anything not directly associated with implementation of dominating foreign policy getting the short end of the stick. We can spend money we don't have ferrying cluster bombs to Israel for their destruction of Lebanese, troop escalation in Iraq, holding troops beyond their rotation in Afghanistan, setting up more foreign military bases and anything else that gets headlines, but in the US people including wounded military are no longer considered a government priority.

They actually drug test mutilated soldiers? What a joke we've become.

CHUQ · 02-19-2007, 05:56 AM

It appears the only time the US has any use for the troops is when they send them to war and after they are dead. Arlington makes a good photo op. I do not understand building monuments to the dead raise money, since the govt cannot do it, and provide assistance to the injured.

CHUQ · 02-19-2007, 06:10 AM

Troops race a weath of probs when they return.

The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard. The maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs next to a pond, watching goldfish turn lazily through the water.

But the wounded of Mologne House are still soldiers -- Hooah! -- so their lives are ruled by platoon sergeants. Each morning they must rise at dawn for formation, though many are half-snowed on pain meds and sleeping pills.

In Room 323 the alarm goes off at 5 a.m., but Cpl. Dell McLeod slumbers on. His wife, Annette, gets up and fixes him a bowl of instant oatmeal before going over to the massive figure curled in the bed. An Army counselor taught her that a soldier back from war can wake up swinging, so she approaches from behind.

The Hotel Aftermath - washingtonpost.com

CHUQ · 02-23-2007, 05:01 AM

Sad that a thread about some chick showing her tits, is more popular than the crap the US is putting vets through.

CHUQ · 02-23-2007, 05:04 AM

Army underrates injuries.......

The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans’ advocates, lawyers and service members.

“These people are being systematically underrated,” said Ron Smith, deputy general counsel for Disabled American Veterans. “It’s a bureaucratic game to preserve the budget, and it’s having an adverse affect on service members.”

The numbers of people approved for permanent or temporary disability retirement in the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have stayed relatively stable since 2001.

Army is holding back on rating troops’ disabilities to hold down costs, critics say - Military News, Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times

CHUQ · 02-23-2007, 05:06 AM

I get angry about this stuff--I would bet that all the cheerleaders of war, fly an American and/or have some yellow ribbon somewhere. I guess that is easier than actually caring.

Tumbleweed · 02-23-2007, 10:15 AM

It must be quite frustrating from a vets point of view CHUQ, knowing you guys did your part in serving our country only to be let down by they same people who sent you there.
Having had a son serve in Iraq, I can relate to the frustration with this issue. He is dealing with a few issues as well with the VA.

CHUQ · 02-24-2007, 05:03 AM

I feel for you and I hipe your son will be ok. My biggest bitch is all these so-called "patriots", I use the term with disdain, think that buying a $3 magnet is somehow supporting the troops, is pathetic. All they are doing is supporting some company and its profit margin

I think that the bulk of the American people are pathetic dicks, they have no prob with wooping up and lying about the support they give the troops, but once the vets have outlived their usegfullness they brushed aside and forgotten.

It has happened in the past and I hate that it is happening now. There is absolutely nothing that is more important in our country, right now, than to give the returning vets the help they need. NOTHING! Too bad that all these "patriots" worry about what Chavez is doing or whoever and totally ignore the abuse of American vets.