Sounds like my ex is going to be coming into some money. She joined the Navy a year or so after I gave her the boot,and she is crazier than a rabid rat. Got out after 4 years,so she has a BUNCH of back pay coming if she gets word of this and remembers.
BTW,she is not alone. A cousin of hers joined the Navy too,and when she went to the VA after getting out,they gave her 10 percent for PTSD. Since she was never on a boat or within a thousand miles of combat,I have no idea what it is based on,but she is getting it.
Actually,that is a lie. I KNOW what it is based on. It is based on the shrinks that work for the VA building a empire. Since there are no cures,they have lifetime employment. They even gave me PTSD benefits maybe 15 years after I got out,and I never wanted them or asked for them. In FACT,I told them it was a bogus finding and to remove that from my records since I have never claimed I have PTSD or filed a claim for PTSD benefits. In FACT,I refused to even so see their shrink and told them the reason why was because I never had a single nighmare about my time in service or in VN.
Since I was already at 100 percent anyway,I had nothing to gain from being added to their list and it was easy for me to do.
PLEASE don't misunderstand me. I do know this is a very real living nightmare for a SMALL PERCENTAGE of veterans,and even personally know two whose lives have been a living hell because of it. Both were senior NCO's when their corks "popped",and it ruined their lives.
My problem is giving anybody in uniform a PTSD rating to justify hiring shrinks. I worked with a guy in the post office that had a 30 percent VA disability rating based on "VN" and he told me himself the closest he ever got to VN was Germany. He was a telephone repairman there in the army,and had a nervous breakdown because a lot of the guys in his company where getting sent to VN,and he was afraid he was going to go,too. IMHO,it took stones for him to admit to something like that,so I have no resentments to him at all. In fact,he and I are still friends.