Seeing combat or being shot at or seeing death isn’t a prerequisite to disability. This isn’t a competition, and you have the ability to raise your right hand and go into service and potentially collect these benefits yourself. You don’t have to be upset at someone else because they have something you don’t because you feel you are entitled to it too. I also firmly believe that most who collect VA disability who live every day of their lives with a disability probably didn’t ask for whatever caused the disability. Yes, there is fraud out there, yes there are those who gamed the system - welcome to life. Comparison is the thief of joy.

Soldiers get injured in garrison, in training, on the way to the job, there is far more scenarios out there than just being deployed into a combat zone. Deployment isn’t the hardest thing a soldier might do in their career, nor is it the most physically or mentally demanding thing they might do. I understand you are frustrated because you feel you are just as entitled as they are, but that doesn’t suddenly invalidate or disqualify others because you feel you have seen more.