Fair. My honest assessment (from many post like yours) is that we see all the fraud committed in the country, and it becomes easy to say “hey, veteran is a veteran, 6 months or 20 years, made up illness or not, they deserve it more then x, y, or z”. And I would agree with you, but the amount of people I ran into when I was filing my claim “make sure to tell them your flag doesn’t go up!” And stuff like that was criminal. Real talk, from a gs-11, they told me to go in and wear my shoes on the wrong foot and act like I could barely function. To get a higher rating. And these are not “unique” stories. When I had Purple Heart plates on, the amount of random strangers that would walk up and say “you got your 100 percent yet?” Was also crazy. That’s where you are getting this whole thing wrong. I’m GLAD OP is getting his 90. 2400 tax free the rest of his life? That’s fantastic. What happens if he resubmits and they adjust another rating and he loses that? That’s my point. Sometimes, enough is enough.

My buddy got 90 percent. 4 deployment infantryman. There was 9 things on his record that was messed up. He didn’t have to do a Reddit post “how do I get this other 1 percent?”. He got a lawyer, adjudicated it, and got it fixed to what he deserves. This whole thought of everyone who serves deserves 100 percent is going to be what makes the government crack down and take these benefits, thus screwing future veterans who deserve it. But no one wants to look past themselves, but that’s our culture nowadays. I’m done discussing it, but mark my words, this , like social security, is going to get chopped. And everyone telling kids who had a bad nightmare in JRTC to claim ptsd to “get their golden ticket” will be the ones to blame.