to service than, say, a bullet wound would be. the same president is now winding down the longest war in history which was fought simultaneously with the iraq war, with many of the same signature injuries, not 1% of our population that has been fighting both of those wars for more than ten years will be coming home and transitioning from soldiering to being veterans. the story of how the backlog at the v.a. piled up so badly in terms of veterans having to wait months or even years on their claims, that story about how it all piled up is not hard to understand. but no one saw this coming? when the agent orange claims were added and the gulf war illness claims were added and other classification groups were added and the wars in iraq and afghanistan ground on for years and started to end, anybody could see all of those things would have paperwork consequences in the form of more disability claims in the v.a. but the management of the paperwork has not kept pace with the changes that caus
to service than, say, a bullet wound would be. the same president is now winding down the longest war in history which was fought simultaneously with the iraq war, with many of the same signature injuries, not 1% of our population that has been fighting both of those wars for more than ten years will be coming home and transitioning from soldiering to being veterans. the story of how the backlog at the v.a. piled up so badly in terms of veterans having to wait months or even years on their claims, that story about how it all piled up is not hard to understand. but no one saw this coming? when the agent orange claims were added and the gulf war illness claims were added and other classification groups were added and the wars in iraq and afghanistan ground on for years and started to end, anybody could see all of those things would have paperwork consequences in the form of more disability claims in the v.a. but the management of the paperwork has not kept pace with
months or even years on their claims, that story about how it all piled up is not hard to understand. but no one saw this coming? when the agent orange claims were added and the gulf war illness claims were added and other classification groups were added and the wars in iraq and afghanistan ground on for years and started to end, anybody could see all of those things would have paperwork consequences in the form of more disability claims in the v.a. but the management of the paperwork has not kept pace with the changes that cause the increases in paperwork. the v.a. s own numbers shows wait times are not getting better, it s getting worse. 161 days, the next year, 165 days, next year 188 days, last year, 262 days. the universe of the problem they are dealing with is getting bigger by design, by policy, by good policy, by their own policy. but the pace at which they are dealing with the existing problem is not getting better, it is getting worse and we keep