Originally Posted by
Hilltopper89
Maybe it's just me but when I retired I refused to claim any disability at all. As a matter of fact I skipped those sessions in TAP. I think it's a total sham that so many are clawing to get it for the extra $$. Some things happen when you get old: hearing goes, vision goes, backs get bad. I refuse to blame the military for any of that just so I can get the bucks. I'll let people who really are disabled get their share.
I didn't claim any VA disability either, but I did it for a different reason. I don't trust the bureaucracy and the FAA. This has been beat to death, so I won't rehash here, but for me, it wasn't worth $50/mo or so. Unless you pass the 50% threshold for concurrent receipt, it really doesn't amount to much money...
Originally Posted by
Hilltopper89
Just sit in a TAP class and listen to how everybody is scheming to get it. It's a sham for some. Not all, but some.
Many are.
Originally Posted by
thurberm
I'm with him. We're both ex-SOF with a lotta time staring through those things. I've been evaluated and got no disability related to that. I've never even heard of it.
Gonna haveta go with myth: busted.
Don't know about myth, I have heard anecdotal stories of guys getting it in the past. What their situation was is unknown to me and was the actual NVG use determined to be causal? Who knows?
That said, eyes start to go as we age. Is it exacerbated by staring at those little green TV tubes? Don't know...I do know they always used to tell me not to sit too close to the TV when I was a kid because it would ruin my eyes!
