Don't you start you :) -- Timothy Heald Senior Developer/Architect HR/EX/SDD, SA-1, H808F Desk: 202-663-2752 Fax: 202-261-8299 Cell: 703-300-3911
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Is anyone else as disapointed as me with the Army? you're working for CACI? On 3/1/07, Heald, Timothy J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are covering the kids and the wife without any problems. Doesn't > matter I'll be on CACIs insurance in a couple of days :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:36 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Is anyone else as disapointed as me with the Army? > > why even bother to have insurance then? Just wondering... > > On 3/1/07, Heald, Timothy J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something I forgot to mention, the reason I was using the VA at all, > my > > insurance (BC/BS Carefirst) as decided that ANYTHING that gets > submitted > > with my name attached to it is a previously existing condition that is > > the Army's fault, and so they won't pay for anything I have to be seen > > for. > > > > Great people. > > > > I hate insurance. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Heald, Timothy J > > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:03 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Is anyone else as disapointed as me with the Army? > > > > I've got a good buddy in Walter Reed right now. That place is a mess, > > but I think it's a bit presumptuous to blame administrators for that. > > It's very simple, neither the Army nor the VA have the funds to > provide > > for the returning wounded, not to mention all the mental health > > requirements they are finding they have. > > > > I can tell you I walked out of the VA hospital rather than be seen > > there, after several trips and a short stay there, just this week. We > > (vets) have to basically run a gauntlet in order to even be seen, and > > after you do all the paper work your level of service is far less than > > what I had come to expect when I was on active duty, much less as a > > civilian. > > > > I've paid hundreds of dollars a month for insurance since I returned, > > because I know how overworked the VA system is. I figured (while I > > could) that the VA should be left for wounded and disabled soldiers. > I > > went in to be treated for a service connected illness, and walked out > > because they couldn't help me. > > > > I think it probably also has something to do with the fact that the > Army > > is closing down Walter Reed. Soon all the patients seen at Walter > Reed > > are going to be spread out between Bethesda Naval and Ft. Belvoir. I > > can't even begin to imagine what that's going to do to the medical > > services at those establishments. While I was in Afghanistan my > family > > was being treated through Ft. Belvoir. My wife was never able to get > my > > son into a child psychiatrist or psychologist (he has some issues and > is > > on some meds). At that point she took him into a private doctor, cost > > us 300 a month, while I was making the least amount of money I had > made > > in 5 or 6 years (look up an E-4s pay sometimes, I have a wife and two > > kids). > > > > Basically it boils down to another generation of soldiers being left > > behind. We'll have the whole stigma of being a war on terror soldier > as > > did the Vietnam vets. > > > > They want us to kill and die, but they don't want to pay the price for > > it. > > > > I mean, if you look at how the various programs (medical, educational) > > are set up and administered it's near impossible for vets to actually > > use many of their benefits. You have to jump through so many hoops > that > > a lot of vets just give up. I tried to sign up for some courses at > > Strayer about two months ago, first time I ever tried to use my GI > bill. > > Funny thing, the Army doesn't pay for you to go to school; they send a > > stipend after you have paid for the school. How many young soldiers > do > > you know that can afford to drop 10-20 grand then get paid back a > little > > each month? I can tell you I don't know too many. > > > > Any way, I'm going to go see my boy at Walter Reed tonight. He had > his > > foot blown off, his third wound within a month. They are operating > > today to remove the external metal crap that was holding his foot and > > leg together. It scares the shit out of me to think what is going to > > become of him once his medical boards are done. > > > > -- > > Timothy Heald > > Senior Developer/Architect > > HR/EX/SDD, SA-1, H808F > > Desk: 202-663-2752 > > Fax: 202-261-8299 > > Cell: 703-300-3911 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:43 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Is anyone else as disapointed as me with the Army? > > > > I thought that maybe, just maybe, the military would be less > > self-serving, less hypocritical, less political, less worried about > > the top brass than the guys in the trenches. > > > > After Abu Ghraib, I was uncertain. > > > > After this Walter Reed debacle, I can see I was totally wrong, and > > they are as cowardly and full of shit as anyone else I can think of. > > > > So, they today fired the guy in charge of Walter Reed, who has been in > > place since August. > > > > They have replaced him with the guy that was in charge of Walter Reed > > BEFORE THIS GUY. You know, they guy who was in charge in July, and in > > June, and for months before that. The same guy that not only _let_ the > > situation get this bad, but turned over the mess to the next guy, and > > who has now hung him out to dry. > > > > Am I missing something? Is this guy not the biggest a-hole in the > > entire military (Kiley)? > > > > (Except, of course, for the head of the VA, but that is another rant, > > and he is not in the military). > > > > Someone please tell me I have this all wrong. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. 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