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I wonder how our resident feminists think of this. I bet it is along the lines of male veterans being disposable and female veterans need to be cherished and upheld as heroes for doing less than their male counterparts.

Tera?

I read the article. Wow she gets to move into a new apartment in a new building put up just for other female veterans. This is outrageous.

I don't know what to tell you to do...but I can tell you that there is way too much female favoritism. I have seen and heard about so much of it in Family Court. Often women waltz in there on a red carpet ride to checks, cash, and benefits without any responsibility and no consequences if the kids get harmed or she does not feel like letting them see Dad.

Thanks for sharing.

My son has explained what a bayonet is and what must have happened to you.

I read this to him and he says this is sick. He can't believe it.

I don't know what to say that can make this situation any less hurtful but I can tell you that our young men seem to have taken up an extraordinary respect for veterans and have the yearning to learn from them regardless of how our system is feminising them. Maybe this is what it is to be Masculine. They search out good men as role models.

God bless you chevalier. You are not worth less to our fatherless boys nor fathered boys than women. Not at all.

Yes, thanx for sharing.

I wouldn't encourage any man in any Western society to join the military. Fighting for a nation that hates you doesn't make much sense.

I too am a veteran but I was never in a war nor was I injured. I don't regret my time in the military but knowing what I know today...I wouldn't join.

I say we let the "smarter and better at everything" gender take over the protection duties.

She's homeless and wearing gold and diamonds???

Chev, you have absolutely every right to be angry. Female vets do not deserve more resources or benefits than do males.

Chev, my dear Brother, you have my ear and shoulder to your disposal, as I'm sure is the case for many others here.

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Homeless female vets seek shelter - Military
I was bayoneted in the chest and still have shrapnel in my body nearly 20 years after the war. She has scoliosis.

Mate,
I take my hat off to any person that has actually served in a combat situation.
Having said that, I would do the same, selflessly and without any recognition, mainly because, if you are male there will be no recognition.

So this "vet" has scoliosis, eh?, that is a congenital birth defect (aka Curved Spine ), one that is more common in women than men, not one you get from any sort of battle related activity, you are born with it.

This sort of thing cheapens the memory of all good soldiers that have died for their country, over the years and also the ones that were horrendously disfigured in REAL combat.

To make an example of a few female soldiers with a sore finger, is just crap as far as I am concerned.

Its 3 to 5 percent:

A new phenomenon

That number of apartments intended specifically for female veterans makes the building one of the largest of about a dozen around the nation, said Peter Dougherty, director of homeless veterans programs for Veterans Affairs. Run by a private housing agency, it will give veterans access to medical services, day care, job training, and drug and alcohol counseling.

The homeless female veteran is a relatively new phenomenon because only recently have so many women — more than 190,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan alone — been serving in the military, said Todd DePastino, a historian at Waynesburg University who wrote a book on the history of homelessness.


The number of homeless female veterans have gone up — from 3 percent of all homeless veterans a decade ago to 5 percent, the VA says.
"It's a national embarrassment," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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I wouldn't encourage any man in any Western society to join the military. Fighting for a nation that hates you doesn't make much sense.

I too am a veteran but I was never in a war nor was I injured. I don't regret my time in the military but knowing what I know today...I wouldn't join.

I say we let the "smarter and better at everything" gender take over the protection duties.

the fact is many countries have compulsory military duty for men

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Homeless female vets seek shelter - Military

I am a disabled vet who has been homeless and I never received services to get me into a shelter nor did anyone check me for PTSD until last year.

I was bayoneted in the chest and still have shrapnel in my body nearly 20 years after the war. She has scoliosis.

I will end up in a wheelchair from the shrapnel left in my body yet she somehow deserves more services than me and my brothers in arms.

But when they start putting female non combat vets above disabled male combat vets it just pisses me off to no end.

Jeez Chev, I can only hope that some relief may be available in the near future..
All the best mate..

Feckless:

The number of homeless female veterans have gone up — from 3 percent of all homeless veterans a decade ago to 5 percent, the VA says.
"It's a national embarrassment," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

That is still not that bigger deal when you consider what happened in the US after the Vietnam war with Vets.
Vietnam Vets over here and in Australia have been battling beaucracy to have their health problems caused by Agent Orange addressed by either local government or the US.
Many (all men) have died of cancer since and their kids have birth defects, waiting for the US Government to admit to using this agent where Allied troops were at the time of dumps from US air-craft.

During the First World War in Australia there was no conscription those patriotic Australian men who felt loyalty to the British King or God or the British Empire of which Australia was a part they volunteered to fight the European War

Now those men that saw the downside of volunteering and stayed at home were sent white feathers in the post by those alert wimmin who would not have dreamed about joining in a foreign war (nurses perhaps)

this is an aspect of wimmin's psyche they urge others ,especially men to do things they would not dane at themselves with shaming tactics for declining the honour of serving their ends

the feminits still use the same tactics a we speak

are you not a real man

Mike T I agree that Vietnam vets got the shaft on many issues including agent orange.

But I will say this I fought in Desert Storm and they sprayed us with psycloserin gas. The government has admitted to that either.

Why do you think it is that vets returning home now do not suffer the same illnesses that DS vets do? It is because we were sprayed by toxic gas.

I am not saying I have it worse than any other vet or that one vet deserves more than another. They are all my brothers and sisters. I want care for them all. What I am mad about is the fact that they are hording resources to use for women.

Women get the resources in dv because they apparently constitute a majority. But when it comes to soldiers apparently the reverse is true they are going to take resources from the majority to give to women who are in the minority of people who need these resources.

In some cases I don't mind if say a female vet needs to see a gynocologist or something like that i don't mind the VA useing resources for that.

But win they say they must use resources for 5% of veterans to use sollely because they are female pisses me off.

And to be honest I am quit tired of being told that I have it so easy compared to vietnam vets. A knife wound in vietnam hurts just as bad as one in Iraq and vise versa. Like somehow it is my fault or something.

What a waste of breath.