If you are able, available, and looking for full-time (over 30 hours) work, and have had no work in the last 4 weeks, you are officially unemployed, whether or not you filed for or are eligible for unemployment compensation. If you served on Federal duty for 180 days other than for training, you are a veteran, whether you were regular military, reserves, or national guard. If you didn't, you aren't, just like George W. Bush, whose Air National Guard duty didn't include any mobilization for active duty. If you are a veteran, you are entitled to veteran's benefits; see my above post for the link to the details. If you were injured on active duty, you are a CASUALTY, entitled to medical care for your service-connected medical issues (many people think casualty means death, but any personnel injured in the line of duty are casualties). The official Iraq casualty figures are here (note this is Iraq and does not include Afghanistan or other theatres). http://www.icasualties.org/oif/ Most veterans do not have service-connected medical issues, are not retired or disabled military, and are not low-income; these are the priority service categories for VA medical care, not the guys (and gals) who served a hitch and came home safely. I grew up in a military family (my father put in a full career in the Air Force) and then was an Army wife (my ex put in a full career and is now retired) and I work at unemployment; these are areas I'm very familiar with.
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Date: 2007-01-06 07:52 pm (UTC)If you served on Federal duty for 180 days other than for training, you are a veteran, whether you were regular military, reserves, or national guard. If you didn't, you aren't, just like George W. Bush, whose Air National Guard duty didn't include any mobilization for active duty. If you are a veteran, you are entitled to veteran's benefits; see my above post for the link to the details. If you were injured on active duty, you are a CASUALTY, entitled to medical care for your service-connected medical issues (many people think casualty means death, but any personnel injured in the line of duty are casualties). The official Iraq casualty figures are here (note this is Iraq and does not include Afghanistan or other theatres). http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
Most veterans do not have service-connected medical issues, are not retired or disabled military, and are not low-income; these are the priority service categories for VA medical care, not the guys (and gals) who served a hitch and came home safely. I grew up in a military family (my father put in a full career in the Air Force) and then was an Army wife (my ex put in a full career and is now retired) and I work at unemployment; these are areas I'm very familiar with.