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This is not justifying the shitty treatment of vets by the VA or by insurance companies.
The problem is that medicine has long focused on severe acute traumatic injuries. The kind sustained by military individual are mild repeated concussive injuries without an immediate onset of symptoms. We have only very recent learned about the additive effects of long term repeated trauma to the brain like those suffered by American football players, boxers and military individuals.