Posted on Mar 8, 2017
Should the VA provide mental health treatment for separated veterans with 'bad paper' (OTH) discharges?
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The VA announced they will allow mental health treatment for service members with OTH discharges in an effort to combat suicides among our veteran population.
Is this something we should do or if one is separated under any OTH circumstances, whatever they may be, should one lose their VA benefits?
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/bad-paper-va-extending-mental-health-services
Is this something we should do or if one is separated under any OTH circumstances, whatever they may be, should one lose their VA benefits?
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/bad-paper-va-extending-mental-health-services
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Benefits
Mental Health
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Depends on what the bad paper was for. Was it for PTSD related stuff? Then yes. Is it because they were just a bad egg? Probably not.
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MSG (Join to see) - i am experiencing an issue like this at work: simply pushing numbers so it's someone else's problem.
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MSG (Join to see) - damn right, sir. I feel they are being more stringent checking me to get back in then they were when i first enlisted.
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SGT Ben Keen - had same thing. Went thru tech school with this kid. He had washed into my flight from 2 other attempted to pass. We both end up at Minot, me on the missile side and he with the bomb wing.
I remember working the armory and hearing him come over the radio: sir? Thus is airman...I see a dragon.
Mind you, he was a 60 gunner manning the weapons bay.
He should've been discovered long before, but they needed warm bodies. Member mind that distant, cold look inn his eyes.
I remember working the armory and hearing him come over the radio: sir? Thus is airman...I see a dragon.
Mind you, he was a 60 gunner manning the weapons bay.
He should've been discovered long before, but they needed warm bodies. Member mind that distant, cold look inn his eyes.
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SGT Ben Keen - had same thing. Went thru tech school with this kid. He had washed into my flight from 2 other attempted to pass. We both end up at Minot, me on the missile side and he with the bomb wing.
I remember working the armory and hearing him come over the radio: sir? Thus is airman...I see a dragon.
Mind you, he was a 60 gunner manning the weapons bay.
He should've been discovered long before, but they needed warm bodies. Member mind that distant, cold look inn his eyes.
I remember working the armory and hearing him come over the radio: sir? Thus is airman...I see a dragon.
Mind you, he was a 60 gunner manning the weapons bay.
He should've been discovered long before, but they needed warm bodies. Member mind that distant, cold look inn his eyes.
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this is One That Needs to be Dealt with On a case by case basis...
there are some Washouts who never did a thing or went anywhere...
where others hare suffering from their Deployments and the bad paper is a result of those Deployments...
So over all... the VA Does Needs to review the BCD's and They Need to keep the Damn Politics and "Non Medical People" out of the Decisions...
there are some Washouts who never did a thing or went anywhere...
where others hare suffering from their Deployments and the bad paper is a result of those Deployments...
So over all... the VA Does Needs to review the BCD's and They Need to keep the Damn Politics and "Non Medical People" out of the Decisions...
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I don't have a problem with this, especially if it helps reduce the suicide rate among veterans. The problem lies in whether or not this change would impact other veterans. If the VA simply expands the number of people eligible for these services, without any new resources, it may very well reduce access for all veterans (increase in demand, no increase in supply). That would be problematic. If the VA gets additional resources to handle this new workload, the existing veterans shouldn't run into problems getting access to care. The former is problematic; the latter is acceptable (in my opinion).
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