• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    “Your daughter’s death is not service related”

    How the hell does this even go on, and not have someone arrested? That BTW is rhetorical

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      21 days ago

      In-service death tends to be an almost automatic grant of service-connected death benefits, likely only burial in this case. DoD failed this person. That doesn’t mean that the VA will.

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        21 days ago

        “Larkhill camp in Wiltshire”, this is in the UK so DoD and VA don’t apply, but you can be forgiven for thinking that given similar ass-hattery in the US.

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          21 days ago

          Oh geez. I’m so used to reading sexual trauma records from the DoD that I just assume immediately. Sorry about that, my bad entirely.