Can't any of that 87 Billion go to help wounded soldiers?

[kellychaos]

This is conjecture on my part based on what I've seen in a lot of the joint training missions I've seen in the regular army which involved the national guard and/or reserve: At times, there are those in the NG/Reserve who have limited or nonexistent medical insurance outside that which the active military provides DURING training or "real world operations". Do to this fact, there are some who abuse the system by attributing injuries/ailments which they have sustained outside their period of training and attributing those same injuries/ailments to things which occurred within the timeframe. Consequently, those that act in accoradance with the regulations are shat upon by the bad apples who have left them with this stigma. This seems to be the prevailing attitude amongst the active duty medical care professionals (and indeed many GIs, in general). I'm not saying that it's right. I'm just saying the attitude is there. I'm not sure whether this has any bearing on the situation to which you're referring, Max.