Jedi-Tanker

@Odinsraven66 @SimplySatiracal @ebrockwayink And cleaning your weapons by the supply room on the floor could be considered a desk as well. Guess it’s all down to experiences.

@Odinsraven66 @SimplySatiracal @ebrockwayink Depends on the rank and unit I guess.

The heart of the VA “disability” debate isn’t policy, it’s the word itself. Disability is a term loaded with misunderstanding and stigma. Uninformed veterans and civilians negatively react to the idea of compensation for someone who appears physically “able.” That reaction is conditioned by decades of Hollywood cultural imagery that includes disfigurement, prosthetics, and World War I–style shell shock. In that frame disability is limited to something visible and severe. But that’s not what the VA system is built around. What veterans leave service with are limitations. Some immediate, others latent but predictable based on exposure, wear, and mathematical and science-based risk. These are measurable, actuarial realities. The system isn’t designed for public adjudication based on anecdotes or subjective thresholds of “hurt enough.” Yet many people implicitly treat VA disability like workers’ compensation, which invites a kind of vigilantism and an eagerness to identify fraud. It mirrors the logic of true crime culture: find the bad actor and expose the scam! In practice, that instinct often targets legitimately suffering veterans, turning them into suspects and criminals rather than beneficiaries. What’s missing from the conversation is the underlying purpose: the VA Disability program is, functionally, a quality-of-life compensation model. It acknowledges that service imposes lasting costs, not just on the individual, but often on their family and long-term well-being. But of course the current terminology obscures that reality. “Disability” narrows the public’s understanding to visible impairment, when the system is actually compensating for diminished lifetime capacity and risk exposure. If the goal is clarity and legitimacy in the public mind, the VA should reconsider the term itself. The whole damn thing… its language, framing, and branding. Because as long as we rely on a misunderstood word, we’ll keep having the wrong debate. And veterans will lose.

@Odinsraven66 @SimplySatiracal @ebrockwayink No, we go to shoot houses, ranges: rifle, pistol, (mounted vehicle tables for crew qualification) go in the woods at our home base training areas conducting force on force training. NTC rotations. Then we repeat the process till deployment.

@SimplySatiracal @ebrockwayink Buddy what do you think infantry do in garrison? They sit behind desks

We’ve reached a point where so few people know a veteran or active service member that that there is zero desire to understand what real sacrifice looks like. Everytime a financial podcast drops with a veteran on it, people rush to scream “fraud.” But, according to the VA Office of the Inspector General, the fraud rate with disability claims is less than 1%. There are a multitude of conditions that are not physically visible: Traumatic Brain Injury, burn pit exposure, PTSD, gastrointestinal issues, etc that veterans deal with every day. America just came out of the longest war in our history. Medical testing has gotten better. Documentation of medical issues has gotten better. You can’t ask America’s sons and daughters to go to war, and then turn your back on them when it’s time to take care of them.

My 3rd deployment Soldiers doing Soldier Stuff youtu.be/ffJAoOm1_2M?si… via @YouTube

@TerryLewisJr2 This baseball cap has more combat experience than 99%

I’m seeing a ton of people who didnt have the balls to join the military and serve this country are now military “experts”. None of these pansies would last a two weeks eating MREs twice a day

⚠️ BREAKING: Virus With No Treatment or Cure Detected in the U.S. Map Shows Where It May Be Spreading A virus with no treatment or cure is spreading rapidly in the US although officials have urged people not to panic yet

@ThePatriotOasis @johnrobertsFox

🔥🚨 JUST IN — MIC DROP MOMENT by @JohnRobertsFox "The battle for Okinawa, one island, took 86 days and 250,000 casualties." "So, for gas prices to go up a little bit and raising so much concern—think of how much worse it was in World War II than what we’re facing now!"

@nicksortor Fake news

@LttleGel @KeezNuts @Polymarket @Uber Same. Crazy times

@_Skeletors_Bone @KeezNuts @Polymarket @Uber Yes, that is a concern for me too.

JUST IN: Women driving for Uber can now opt-out of picking up male passengers.

@LttleGel @KeezNuts @Polymarket @Uber What if the driver just identified as a woman?

@KeezNuts @Polymarket @Uber No, it's to protect women against rape. Works for riders too.

@itsme_urstruly Drink a cold glass of water

You wake up and it's 1990. No wifi. No mobile phones. No social media. No doom scrolling. What do you do first?

Gunther Eagleman has got to be the stupidest motherfucker on this platform..

Paint it Black - Vietnam War

@ConceptualJames Telling an American to go to a foreign country to protest his tax dollars being used to fund a foreign war is not making the point you thought you were making.

Good morning, fam 😊💕

Gaslighting Veterans is not a good idea. We’re waking up.