One Job For Veterans Administration To Do. One Job

 

 

No matter your view on the military agenda, I know you all agree that aging veterans deserve some VA love for their service.

 

If you’ve got a DD214 you’re in the program.

 

Better yet, if you have orders proving you were where you say you were during Vietnam, you’re in the program.

 

You’re Navy with the same Agent Orange symptoms as ground pounders? In the program.

 

What program?

 

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Administration, the VA, the people in the federal government wing administering to veterans as they age.

 

They exist to assist?

 

 

The VA is the part of the Cabinet of the United States responsible for helping veterans.

 

Cabinet?

 

The Cabinet of the United States is part of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. The Cabinet’s role, inferred from the language of the Opinion Clause (Article II, Section 2, Clause 1) of the Constitution is to serve as an advisory body to the President of the United States. Additionally, the Twenty-fifth Amendment authorizes the Vice President, together with a majority of certain members of the Cabinet, to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.

 

That comes from wiki so you know the head of the VA is a big guy with a big job nominated by Mr. Trump.

 

Wilkie does not have the health care experience his predecessor had. David Shulkin, whom Trump fired in a tweet in March, is a doctor and longtime hospital executive. But Wilkie said he believes the greatest problems facing the agency are “administrative and bureaucratic,” rather than medical.

He has the benefit of serving as acting secretary of the VA after Shulkin was fired until Trump nominated him to take the job.

 

As a Cabinet Secretary Mr. Wilkie is an extension of Mr. Trump. They share the same feelings for veterans.

 

At the VA, which serves some 9 million veterans at more than 1,200 medical facilities, Wilkie said his top priorities will be improving the culture and providing top-notch “customer service” – in health care and benefit claims.

 

 

“When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to him to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes,” he said. “It is up to VA to get the veteran to yes, and that is customer service.”

 

This veteran bedpan jockey isn’t feeling it so much with the Trump Cabinet. Their general relationship to science doesn’t seem very scientific, so I have doubts when Mr. Wilkie asks policy people to ‘consider the scientific evidence.’

 

If it’s the same science behind undoing environmental controls, the same science unable to solve the Flint Michigan water problem, or understand what ‘rising seawater’ means, there’s gonna be a problem.

 

I consider my DD214 my master’s degree during most educational 1970’s. What I’ve learned from my service is to believe in veterans. The science part of VA customer service needs to do the same.

 

If a Navy veteran comes in with the same stuff eating their guts up as an Army or Marine Agent Orange guy, sign them up.

 

They deserve to be in the program. They’ve earned it.