On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:35:08 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Truthfully, I always thought you had to have a major service related
disability or be a retired "lifer" in order to qualify for VA health
care. Apparently for many years that was true. However the policy
changed when the VA/TriCare system was reorganized many years ago. The
VA now encourages vets to apply.

This is just an example of government empire building. Bureaucrats
keep score by how much they can expand their patch. The bigger your
budget, the more money you can make because you swing a bigger
political stick.
I tend to agree with Harry on this. Traditionally these benefits were
for people who were impacted by their service, either from injury or
simply that fact that this was their career and it is part of their
pension benefit.
It is getting ridiculous at a time when the government is drowning in
debt and most of this is entitlements, we need to look a little harder
at who we are giving the money to.
Now I hear they are talking about expanding VA benefits to bad paper
discharges.

The second reason was because I knew it would **** you off.

I guess that makes it all worthwhile ;-)