Post details: Team 4: War Vets Fighting Govt. For Disability Benefits
Team 4: War Vets Fighting Govt. For Disability Benefits
More than 23,000 American soldiers have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 1,000 have lost a limb, and amazingly, a Team 4 Investigation found many of those injured veterans are now fighting the U.S. government for disability benefits.
Team 4's Paul Van Osdol has more on the story.
It all comes down to this: The Veterans Administration is clogged with hundreds of thousands of claims, and that logjam is forcing some of our wounded soldiers to wait more than a full year to get the benefits due them.
Roadside bombs, snipers, mortars, death and injury stalk American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sgt. Doug Gindlesperger of the U.S. Army National Guard led security patrols in Iraq knowing at any moment that he could be in immediate danger.
In 2005 he was flown out of Iraq, suffering from post-traumatic stress.
Years later, driving down country roads near his Somerset County home, Gindlesperger said he still has flashbacks.
"They used a lot of animals for explosive devices over there and being in Somerset County, being a deer hunter, seeing a road kill, it gives you that flash, know what I mean?" said Gindlesperger.
But 18 months after coming home, Gindlesperger is still fighting the Veterans Administration over his disability claim....
Comment: And in the meantime, our goverment officials pay out Billions for the illegal aliens scum suckers invading our country.
