More on my service time.

Hello All. Just wanted to update that last post that I made on this site.  finally I got some action out of the VA.  I got a check but for the 50 plus years, it is not all that much. But also I will be getting  a check each month for as long as I last. At 72, I can’t tell just how long that might be.  I am trying for at least 150 or so. LOL.  I also had a claim in for the leg that I got messed up when I was in the service. This happened because of the problem that I was having with my ears. Maybe I forgot to post that part. Anyway in the basic trainning part of the service in the first eight week of trainning, I had to go on a night firing exercise. It was very dark and with all the other people firing their rifles, it made it even harder to see what was happening. This other person drop down beside and fired his rifle in my ear causing me to lose my hearing in that ear. Later in our trainning, I was trainning on some of the other equipment that the army has. As luck would have, I had to fire a 106 recoilless rifle. That rifle has sound coming out of both ends of the rifle. I held the wrong ear and lost the hearing in the other one. Now to continue with what I was saying eariler,  The problem that I was having with my leg. This happened in the day light. We were out trainning when my first sargent started calling to me. I was in front of him and with my bad hearing there was no way that I could understand just what he was saying. In fact I didn’t even hear him at all. He picked up a big rock, a lot bigger then a softball.  He threw it and hit me in the leg. This knock me down. Needless to say, I was able to hear the next thing he had to say. I went on sick call and had them take a look at it. The bump that I had on my leg was still bigger then a baseball. They punched my TS card and sent me on my way. If you don’t know what that TS card is, it is because you haven’t lived long enough.  After many years, that same leg started giving me problems. I finally had it operated on. That was 10 years ago or so. I still have problems with it but at my age I don’t think that it would be worth having anything else done to it.  I put a claim in on it too. But I did say in the paperwork that I sent in, the resson that I put that in was to let them know that the problem that I was having with my ears was from being in the service. I have read where other with problems like mine have had no luck at all getting anything done as far as help for the VA.