There has to be some sort of benefit you should get as a veteran, unless of course you were dishonorably discharged. I think they should help you with your housing at the very least. Then again I am not sure the current president is going to be up for it, if you know what I mean.
Oh, there is, I'm just getting 10%. I was not a DD, but honorable. Problem is, if you tick off enough folks, or if they have
something to hide, then you get 8-balled.
I wish I knew then, what I know now. All three of my chain of command, back in berlin, would have been court-marshaled had i died that day, instead, I lived and didn't even got to the hospital, so there was never medical documentation of what happened, at least not in service.
Years later, I met with a social worker, and he had heard all the BS and slandering, and thought I was full of it when I described what had happened. He still had me go through the motions, and get my service medical records, but he clearly thought it was a waste of time.
Then he actually started reading them.
Once he got done reading what was in my medical records, he told me the medical term for what happened, and then told me I needed to get a new Dr at the VA (because of the lies that my current one had told me), and said that I needed a DR of Internal Medicine (Whatever the heck that is). When I left that meeting, I went straight to the patient advocate, and asked for a new Dr.
They fired/transferred the social worker away, and I never saw him again. They didn't like him learning the truth, and bucking the system, by telling me.
Turns out, if you remember all the symptoms, and correctly enter them into a modern AI, you can get the right answer, but you have to have all the facts in your question before the AI gets it right.
Turns out, I had, according to the then current chart, a level 4 heat stroke, with the only difference between level 4 and level 5 being, that level 5 was = death. All the lifelong sweating to dehydration whenever I was hot, working out, or both at the same time were signs of the permanent damage such can do to a body. The memory loss, both the initial, temporary kind that I had that morning, when I came to in the battalion aid station and had no idea of where I was, or how I had gotten there, until much later, when the brain finally was able to store the memories, and the 'blank spot' that never returned (I can only remember, to this day, running to where we went the wrong way, instead of going back to the front of our compound, we went around the long way, to the back, because our battalion commander was a cross-country runner, and wanted to show off).
In my memories, we went from that moment, straight to me waking up in the aid station, with an IV in each arm, as they tried to put enough fluids back into my veins so they could get my heart to slow down enough to get an accurate pulse count. When they first carried me in, the medics were not able to obtain my BP or pulse, as my heart was beating to fast, because I was so badly dehydrated from my body using even the water in my veins to sweat heat out, that my blood stream couldn't carry enough oxygen to the body (hence the brain not being able to make memories).
After some time, like about 30 minutes, the IV's had been able to get my blood stream to be able to carry enough oxygen to my organs/brain, and my heart could get a rest, and my first accurate pulse count they could get, was 33 beats per 6 seconds. The AI at first was telling me that it couldn't have been 33 beats in 6 seconds, and must in fact have been 33 beats in 10 seconds.
33 beats in 10 seconds comes out to be a pulse of 198 beats per minute, you see.
However, when I related that my initial pulse and BP were entered as "unobtainable", when I was first carried in, and it was only after the IV's had had a chance to slow my heart down, that the AI changed it's tune.
33 beats in 6 seconds comes out to a pulse of 330 beats per minute, well above the ~240 beats per minute for a heart attack thresearchold. When I told it about the memory loss, that synched it. Of course, I didn't know any of this until many years after I got out of the Army.
Had I gone to the hospital that day, and taken my medical records with me, they would have done a proper examination, and found all this out back then, in July of 1987, and combined with the medics testimony and the bloodstains on the outsides on my shoe (from when they told me to go out on blistered feet and do this run in the first place, and then, during the run ordered me to "Run till you drop"), let's say the 3 folks in my chain of command would have been found criminally negligent, and I probably would have gotten a medical discharge at that point, rather than an honorable discharge when my enlistment term was up.
That wouldn't have been good for me, in the sense of pride, but would have sealed the deal for disability compensation later on in life. It's no wonder they didn't want to push me to go to the hospital, as they knew what would come out, and their careers would end.
As it was, I didn't know any of this at the time, and just kept on with my duties, and only later wondered why I was always sweating so bad, that I several times had to stop exerting myself in high temps, else I would pass out from heat exhaustion, again. Once your body has that level of trauma, you are messed up for life.
Anyway,
Day 68, 2234 hrs.
Level 142, 9274 Kills.
QP 63/100.
I turned off Horde Night Every Night, as I wanted to do some farming, construction, and crafting, rather than all the zombie killing, but I do have to say, if you are playing with no XP bonuses on, then the use of the Nerd helm + Treasure finder mod + the learning elixir is a godsend. I have been getting 3-4 levels each night for awhile now. Once I get to 150-160, I'll have the points/skills to take on harder Biomes.
That means that I'll have to build bases in the other Biomes first, and then try my hand at the expected more difficult HNEN.
What levels should I try each Biome at?
Burnt Biome = try at level what?
Desert Biome try at level what?
Snow Biome try at level what?
Wasteland Biome try at level what?
I finally at level 142 currently, and still lack some points in things I want, and am playing dead = restart, so...
What are the thoughts of others for when to move out of the pine Forest?
Sounds like you should heal fine, then.
Attended a bday last weekend, ate a blade of choc today ... just gotta get back on track. Again!
