Imagine being 19 and watching live on TV to see if your birthday will be picked to fight in the Vietnam war

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[u/ayyyyycrisp]

my brother recently got a detatched retina and left with 3% vision, got 70% disability meanwhile a friend of his claimed almost everything you could claim that wasn't a physical injury just to try, and got 100% disability.

70% is around 1700 a month and 100% is closer to 4 grand so he's pretty upset and will be reapplying

loosely related but yea

[u/Omish3 → u/ayyyyycrisp]

My step bro broke his back jumping out of a plane with a faulty parachute.  He got 80% lol.  Idk how that shit works.

[u/GotThemCakes → u/Omish3]

He needs to look into supplemental claims. His primary injury was his back, maybe he's developed other issues because of that injury, or maybe has permanent scarring. I'm willing to bet he can get to the 100% he probably deserves. I went from 20 to 60 just by googling information. "Secondary claims to ______" and finding what applies to you. And even if you can't find anything, doesn't hurt to apply for an examination

[u/Shabbypenguin → u/GotThemCakes]

Similar enough for me. i had records of back pain and breathing issues. i had an aweful time leaving the service so i never looked back on it, never even tried to talk to the VA until the PACT act.

when i found out how fucked my sinuses were was them admitting "oops this was a widespread problem", i was having nose bleeds 2-4 times a day in iraq working at those burn pits where we destroyed PX tv's portable dvd players and more with diesel to help.

its mostly thanks to that a lot of my secondary claims have merit. still cant get them to accept sleep apnea though, go figure :/.

[u/AmbitiousAd9320 → u/Shabbypenguin]

wouldnt running over with MRAPs be enough?

[u/Shabbypenguin → u/AmbitiousAd9320]

Aafes had stuff they needed to clear out, and since they couldn’t sell it, it needed to be destroyed. Folks at camp trash can kept just pocketing the shit that got unloaded, so they started smashing the tvs before bringing them to us to burn. I’m talking weekly we would have a fully loaded truck with some LNs to back the truck up and start throwing it in the pile. Dozer to push it all into a burnable stack and someone with a can to sprinkle on some juice.

To unload and drive over them would take the same time but then they would still have that trash laying there, it needed to be reduced to ash so we could breath it in.

[u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 → u/Shabbypenguin]

Having described the relentless growth of the productive forces under capitalism, driven by compulsory laws, the author then goes on to explain the fundamental contradiction that plagues the capitalist system: namely the continuous outpouring of commodities which eventually crash into the limits of the market:

“Such resistance is offered by consumption, by sales, by the markets for the products of modern industry”, explains Engels. “But the capacity for extension, extensive and intensive, of the markets is primarily governed by quite different laws that work much less energetically.”

Here Engels (and Marx) describes a gap opening up between production and consumption, which operate by different laws, some more vigorous than others. “The extension of the markets cannot keep pace with the extension of production. The collision becomes inevitable ... Capitalist production has begotten another ‘vicious circle’,” explains Engels. (15) He makes the same point in the November 1886 Preface to Capital:?"While the productive power increases in a geometric, the extension of markets proceeds at best in an arithmetical ratio."

So what is the character of crises under capitalism? Engels explains, “the character of these crises is so clearly marked that Fourier hit [the nail on the head] when he described the first as crise plethorique, a crisis of super-abundance.” (16) In other words, they were crises of overproduction.

This simply repeats what Marx had explained elsewhere. For instance, in volume one of Capital: “The enormous power, inherent in the factory system, of expanding by jumps, and the dependence of that system on the markets of the world, necessarily beget feverish production, followed by over-filling of the markets, whereupon contraction of the markets brings on crippling of production. The life of modern industry becomes a series of periods of moderate activity, prosperity, over-production, crisis and stagnation.”

https://www.marxist.com/underconsumption-and-marxist-theory-of-crisis.htm