{"id":61571,"date":"2015-08-26T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61571"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:20:59","slug":"vas-stunning-conclusion-bad-soldiers-become-homeless-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61571","title":{"rendered":"VA’s stunning conclusion; bad soldiers become homeless civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> reports that Dr. Adi V. Gundlapalli of the Salt Lake City VA authored a report which revealed that bad soldiers make bad civilians and become homeless more often than good soldiers;<\/p>\n

The researchers used data on 448,290 U.S. active-duty military service members who were separated from the military between 2001 and 2011, deployed in Afghanistan or Iraq, and who subsequently used Veterans Health Administration services.<\/p>\n

Service members who separate from the military have Department of Defense codes attributing the separation to misconduct including drugs, alcoholism, offenses and infraction, disability, early release, disqualified, normal, or unknown.<\/p>\n

Almost 25,000 of the people in the database had been separated for misconduct, less than six percent of the total group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the report 26% of folks discharged for misconduct are homeless when they first show up at the VA. Of course, in my opinion, they get it all exactly backwards. The military gives bad conduct discharges to people who exhibit anti-social behavior, so yeah, they’re probably going to exhibit anti-social behavior when they hit the streets, too. It’s not the type of discharge that causes the behavior, it’s the type of person that gets those discharges.<\/p>\n

The study goes on to blame PTSD and combat experiences for the anti-social behavior, but they don’t mention how many of the separated service members actually participated in a PTSD-producing event. Additionally, as we’ve seen several times, the VA has done a piss-poor job of separating pretend veterans from the actual veterans, so what safe guards did the good doctor use in this study? Some of our friends have jobs in the private sector for helping veterans and they’ve lost their jobs for scrutinizing these pretend veterans too closely. <\/p>\n

I could have told Doctor Gundlapalli how his study would end before it started. Rather than focus on the 10% of his sampling who are still homeless after 10 years, he should be looking at how the other 90% are beating those odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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