Bin Laden's shooter gets no pension or protection

Seems to me like the guy is an awfull good soldier. He may need some help in the private secture. We all know someone like this guy. Starts out to make a carrier out of the Armed Service and then something happens and they are out on their ear. With Obama as pres. I don't see him being offered any help from the government. But I am very sure that someone in the private secture would be only to willing to give this guy a personal body gaurd job.

THis guy had PLENTY of other options. If he didn't want to deploy, there are plenty of Administrative positions/instructor​s positions in the SEAL teams that he could have transferred into WITHOUT leaving the service. I'm retired military and I can tell you, he KNEW exactly what would happen if he ETS'd early. He doesn't get a whole lot of sympathy from me. You get at LEAST 1 year of transition counseling unless you're chaptered out for medical or disciplinary reasons, so he had no excuse.

P.T.S.D can be proved by a brain scan. and it is a disorder of the brain, and you are not knowing and willing @ that point and is a disability that comes from war. the fact opted out has  to do with his disability, if he has it. he as the right to disability as a defender of this nation      

What a ridiculously slanted article

THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE 9/11 ATTACKS
Official sources have TOLD US that there is NOTHING connecting Osama to the 9/11 attacks, this is all pointless ****. Everybody in the American military should quit that would fix all your country's stupid problems!

I find a lot of the comments about the individual leaving the service and having made a concious decision to do so to be pretty much without merit or insight to reality. Having spent over 42 years in both the Army and the Navy I can say most do not have a clue as to the PTSD issues involved in a service member with a background such as this, nor do they have a clue as to the peer pressure to suck it up no matter what that still exists in elite fighting units. My point being, it is highly likely that the service member made a bad decision involving his career while unduly influenced by psycological issues that impacted his decision making abilities, to add to the question of his situation, without yet having read the article, I have to wonder why his maladies did not qualify him for a medical retirement, Is it not odd, that in the cumlative rating of disabilities, an individual can take his retirement physical from the Armed Forces to the VA and have them in essence add up to a 220% total of disabilities, but not be medically retired? Of course the government (at the VA) has a formula to downgrade many of those to the governments advantage on payout, but be that as it may our service men and women are being screwed over royally by the Medical Departments of the services, with one exception, those in the Medical Corps of the respective branches, they know how to work the system and work it well. The recent refusal by the Army to release it's findings to the Tacoma News Tribune on the investigation and recommendation of the PTSD mess at Madigan Army Medical Center is but the tip of the ice berg on the total and scandalous lack of quality care our service members are getting since the GWOT began. I and several other LNO's  for the returning Brigades could write a book on the incompetency and shear meaness of petty civil service workers towards the service members left in medical hold following their return from theater, as well as the bungeling of the Army Reserve Drill Instructor units that missmanaged the Reserve Component soldiers left in the oblivion of Medical Hold. Here is reality, the treatment of our troops is broken, not said out of spite, but from very recent and current observation. 

It may take the DVA an unreasonable amount of time to decide any veteran's claim.
To add insult to injury, the first VA claim decision has at least a 30% chance of being summarily denied, regardless of the merits. The DVA appeals process can take about five years, and there also is a significant error rate.

If the veteran has significant medical problems, in theory, the military is obligated to show them on a discharge physical. Unfortunately, the military is reluctant to "do the right thing" in cases like this.  Without this "proof", the DVA's claims process becomes more difficult.

The military and the DVA have extremely deficient processes that in practice, just don't work.
 

 

   The vast majority of comments on this topic of which the largest majority were from past members of the military retired or not shows that the understanding of the contract with the armed services REQUIRES that one serve 20 years before long term benefits are granted.  Those that don't understand this very simple REQUIREMENT should probably continue to consume their "pringles" and agree with the whiner that violated Rule 1 as mentioned previously.  Nough said! 

It was a Military Team effort ! No reason to retire early ! Millions of people do a great job every day of their lives, Everyone in the military is a hero!!!  They joined to serve their country. Get back in and serve your twenty years. We all have our aches and pains.

what ever happened to not running a story until all facts were checked?  I long for the journalism standards of the past. This story is half fact and half hype.