Brad R. Torgersen on X: "Yesterday I saw someone object to VA as a vet entitlement, saying, "Why do vets get free stuff when none of the rest of us get free stuff?!" That's an honest question. From the outside looking in it can seem like vets do indeed get a lot of money, and also explicitly vet-focused" / X

Death and serious harm are, unfortunately, "business as usual" in a lot of military stuff. You don't have to be shot or blown up to be seriously hurt, or even killed

Indeed. Was at serious risk of death at least three time in the military, and in danger far more often than that. And I was never in combat. Not unusual at all. Luckily, I never received a really debilitating injury.

Also, we don’t just “get” those things. They are part of the signed contractual compensation.