r/Veterans

Not that we didn't have an assortment of horrors. My heart still starts pumping every time I see trash in the road. But watching footage from Ukraine... that does not look fun. We have a reality check coming in the next ground war.

I’ve been out of the Air Force for about 7 years now and my wife is finally getting close to her Air Force retirement so we’ve been thinking about where to go after. It’s kind of an overwhelming decision considering for as long as I can remember we just go where the military sends us. Where are some places you all have loved living after the service?

How do you guys deal with this? My agency had a class today of just under 10 people and me and the instructor (who happens to be a fat slob) was talking about his VA disability which is at 80 and he’s trying to get to 100 of course. Meanwhile I’m getting second hand embarrassment just listening to this idiot babble. Obviously most civilians don’t understand VA disability and nothing good can come from discussing it with them.

Every time I go to rent an apartment and tell them I'm a veteran, when they ask about my income, they always ask me the same awkward question: "So young?" Do civilians think veterans are just old people? Do civilians think that people who go to war are old? In Vietnam, you weren't even 18 and you were already drafted to go to the front. It happened to me today, and this time I got angry and said, "Yes, I'm young, but I've seen and experienced things that you, at 50, haven't." She stayed quiet and didn't say anything to me again.

Does anyone have a clear picture of an 8 oz citrus x Rip it? I want incorporate it into a marines/gwot sleeve I’m working on.

I have a VA appointment tomorrow at 1400 but my car broke down and I can't get there. The lady at transportation said that they only provide rides to certain people (i.e. I'm a wheelchair), but they could reimburse me. The problem is that I can't afford to pay in the first place.

I do have a 70% service related disability, but I am fully functional and not in a rural area. Can anyone help me find my way in navigating the red tape so I can see my doctor tomorrow?

Curious if anyone here has used their VA home rights recently and if they were able to get up to 4% concessions and any additional concessions IE closing cost partially or all covered.

Every situation is different but curious to hear what your purchase price was vs asking price. What did you end up overall negotiating.

A example I’m thinking of since it’s a buyers market is offering full asking price on a home . Hope it appraises and ask for concessions towards closing cost if not all and up to the VA 4% entitlement towards points, taxes and insurance.

Lifestyle change

Long story short,

25M, with a fiance and babygirl on the way in the Northern California area. I'm a veteran with great vet benefits and currently work an electrical construction job installing conduit pipe, making pole holes, or trenches for lineman essentially. I did go to a lineman trade school but quickly figured it's not a career path where I'm able to see my family very often. I make good money and if it really pushed it with hours I would cap out at around 200k. But this year I made around 150kish. It's good money at the cost of being dirty, working 12+ hours or even more and over the weekends 6-7 days a week. I'm no stranger to hard work, but do see myself doing something different.

I tend to get very envious of those engineers that came out to job sites very clean and spiffy and always wonder what it takes to get to that. I look for a job that will have me home and be around with my daughter more often and make solid money. I have dabbled in some college classes while working here and there, and I KNOW I have what it takes for this degree. As a lot of the research I've done in schooling for electrical engineering is no joke. Math is a strong suit of mine and rather enjoy the puzzles it brings. I plan on starting full time schooling around summer time next year and give it a real shot and fully investing myself in these general ed classes at the community college and transferring out to get this BA in EE. I'd be around 30 years once I'm done give or take, but truly believe it'll put my future family in a better position and a happier lifestyle. VA benefits would help with that.

Would appreciate some feedback and insight of the schooling and what it takes. Also, would enjoy some feedback of someone in a similar position or been in this position.

Thank you for reading and anything helps. Much appreciated...

I have agreed to be placed in VA inpatient care because I started hurting myself and I can't be left alone, and my family is freaked out. I don't remember doing it. What is going to happen there? What are they going to do to me? What should I expect. They said I need trama and PTSD care.

Please don't judge me, I just want to know what will happen.

I’ve pivoted to Fine Art after the Air Force, and was wondering if anyone here has gallery experience.

With the new dd214-1 form being sent to everyone that separates from the reserve to include individual ready reserve(IRR). Does anyone know the process of actually getting this document. I separate in about a month. I am navy IRR.

To those of you that are in your 20’s with a high rating ( and only a couple of years in service) how does your friends or family ( the ones who’ve found out ) generally react? Jealousy, happy that you’ve gotten help, misunderstanding? Seems like a lot of of us have delt with very negative responses, especially from folks who’ve never served.

Just curious abt your experiences, thanks again for everything you guys do for this community. P

Just found out about the VA 100% TPD student loan forgiveness. I have a loan I’ve been working on knocking out for years. Google mentions that payments made after the effective date of the TPD status could be refunded. Has anyone seen this to be true?

Hey everyone,

​I’m a 25-year-old Army combat veteran and I’ve been living on the streets/homeless for the last couple of months. I’ve been staying with family/friends lately trying to get back on my feet, but I’m fighting a massive battle in my own head every single day.

​Lately, whenever I get way too drunk, a switch flips. I completely check out. I get this 1000-yard stare, go totally quiet, clench my jaw, and get incredibly hypervigilent. My body braces like I’m in a combat zone or about to get into a massive fight, and I start looking at everyone around me like they’re the enemy, even when they’re just trying to help.

​Last night it got bad. I was completely locked into that state, and it took my girl and three of my friends physically holding me, her kissing me, and trying to pull me out of it just to ground me and bring me back to reality. It was heavy for them and exhausting for me.

​When I’m sober, I see what I’m doing and I hate how I’m pushing away the people throwing me a lifeline, but when I’m drunk, my survival mode takes over entirely.

​Do any other combat vets experience this exact same switch flipping when they drink? How do you handle the hypervigilance and stop sabotaging your stability before you burn every bridge you have left? I really need some advice on how to fix this and if sobriety is it then I mean i guess but I just feel bad I had to put them thru that like 3 times already.

I know some of you will judge but it’s ok i understand but i am getting discharge for failing the AFT (combat standards) I have a hip injury that’s been going on and probably will get surgery soon and along with my knee pain and hands and wrist I can’t really function properly without pain. I wish it was a medical discharge but the provider said im still to far from that process so here I am. It’s too late now. I was a pretty high speed soldier , never gave them any problems, always did what I was told but my pain got the best of me and tbh im not even mentally here anymore. Has anyone experienced this before? Any advice that would help me transition to civilian? Can I fight to get a honorable discharge? Thanks

Edit: forgot to mention I am and was on profile for these injuries for like a year now, they’ll catch me on days im not on profile to take an AFT or they’ll kick me out so I did try and push myself I was pushing myself beyond my limits but my hip just can’t take it.

So as it says in the title I will be getting out soon and I was just looking for some advice. I have 6 months left on contract and am trying to find a job on the civilian side. Does anyone here have any idea’s on thing’s I should focus on in my job hunting. As well as any jobs that will actually pay well. I want to do something where I can be home more often to spend time with my wife and daughter when I get out. With that being said everything I find is either commission based or low salary does anyone have any ideas on something that might work or just any advice on what I should check out.

Built this because I got tired of manually checking dozens of AMC passenger terminal PDFs every day.

Space-A Tracker is a live dashboard that aggregates publicly posted AMC Space-A flight schedules into one searchable board with:
• live flight listings
• terminal/location pages
• seat/status tracking
• automatic updates from multiple terminals

Still improving it, but it’s already functional and saving a ton of time compared to checking every terminal manually.

Would love feedback from other Space-A travelers, retirees, guard/reserve, and military families, let me know if theres other features that would be useful.

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So the husband and I bought our house June last year. We are thinking about refinancing the mortgage through VA IRRRL. Our current rate is 6.750 and looking for low 5. Is it a good idea to refinance with only a year under our belt or should we wait longer?