How Tough do we Need to be to Survive in the Military?

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Military news..

China is considering arming Russian forces in Ukraine, US says
Cold War 2.0.

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Russia says it will fast-track testing of tank-killing robot in Ukraine
Russia warns that western tanks should be “prepared for their destruction.”

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Black Hawk Helicopter Crash Kills 2 Tennessee National Guard Members in Alabama

The UH-60 helicopter, more widely known as a Black Hawk, crashed in the unincorporated community of Harvest along Alabama Highway 53, killing two members of the Tennessee National Guard during a flight-training mission. The helicopter crashed around 3 p.m. and caught fire.

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Wounded Military From Around World Headed to Camp Pendleton for Adaptive Sports Invitational

The 13th annual event, known as the Marine Corps Trials, is expected to draw more than 200 injured Marines, sailors, veterans, and international competitors from Colombia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Italy, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

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US Military Investigating Leak of Emails From Pentagon Server

It is not uncommon for large organizations to inadvertently expose internal data to the internet, but the fact that this is a Department of Defense email server will give U.S. officials cause for concern. It is unclear if any malicious outsider accessed the exposed SOCOM data.

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I remember my time in Korea, and one of the times I was injured while doing my job. I was a member of the Army Security Agency, and my job was to monitor airway for breaches of security. I was attached to the 321’s ASA company.

One night up on hill 468, things went bad. The lights went out, and I figured that the generator was out of gas.

I went out to check and I was right. So I climbed up on the huge generator and started pouring in the gas. About half way through i slipped and was falling off of the generator. I grabbed what ever I could the break my fall. Unfortunately it was the hot manifold.

I severely burnt my hand. I still had three hours on my shift. What should I do?

I was told by my sergeant that no matter what you need to stay at your post. I went back inside and put ointment on my hand and continued working with one hand.

When my shift was over I went to the medics and they doctored me up.

Have you had an incident like this? Let me know about it.

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Update… Got a couple more interviews and it’s off to the publisher BookBaby. Signs of Hope for the Military: IN and out of the Trenches of Life, will be full of my experiences while in the service, plus a lot about how to survive after being wounded, burdened with PTSD, etc. Keep coming back to see the progress. Better yet…go to the top of this page and click on subscribe. When you do all future posts will go directly to your inbox.

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Checking in on you. How are you doing? Is everything going OK, or are you fighting back memories?

FEAR NOT!

There are over 15,219 Veterans on this site who have your back.

If you are battling mentally, but you are losing, GET HELP!!

Here is a toll free number that you can call 24/7. There are highly qualified counselors there to help you, and they will not hang up until they know you are OK.
1-800-273-8255…texting 838255.

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Remember:


You are never alone.


You are never forsaken.


You are never unloved.


And above all…never, ever, give up.

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Veterans Deserve Benefits From Injuries on Duty

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Doug Bolton, the founder of the blog, Signs of Hope, which is at www.dailysignsofhope.com, has written a new book, “Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of Life.” It will be reaching out the many military and veterans who may be battling anxiety, fear, depression, addictions, rejections, and the many other usual suspects. There are 22 military connected suicides every day. That is almost one every hour. Doug wants to help stop those statistics.  

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It has been quite a summer for me so far. I spent six days in the hospital; two months in incredible pain, and now daily trips to and infusion center to have antibiotic pumped into me.

What this is all about is that I have an infection on my spine. It was hard to move, breath, and even walk when the infection was at its highest moments.

I am doing better now. The pain has subsided. I can walk better now. I can take longer walks each day.

I am a veteran, and I wondered what I would be going through right now if I didn’t have insurance and could only use the military doctors and hospitals.

I am not a person who wants disability, to just to draw money from the government, but I was told be a high ranking retired military person, that if I have had a disability from the military then I deserve what ever compensation I have coming for serving my country.

The following aliment is not related to my current infection, but is for an example of how you can receive what you deserve for harm you acquired while you were actually serving your country.

I went into the military in 1959. I did the proper training and was selected to be in the ASA. (Army Security Agency.) My duties when I was deployed to Korea, was to monitor all transactions over the airways  searching for breaches of security.

My daily run was up to Hill 468. A high mound with a flatten area at the top. The only equipment that was up there was a radio/teletype machine, that you had to listen to every second of your shift. Many times I had twelve hour shifts.

Even when the frequency shifted and you had to dial it back in you had to have the ear phones on. The noise was horrible quite often.

The results of this left my ears ringing and hearing loss came along as well.

I got out of the service and managed to live with my handicap of hearing loss until about thirty years ago, when the loss had become profound. That is when I was told I should apply for compensation since the loss occurred during time served.

I did apply, but the military quickly denied my plea because of the length of time I waited to apply. They felt it was a age related loss.

I have appealed the findings and I will have to share with you later what the outcome will be.

I am sorry if I strung you along with this story, but I am reaching out to all of those veterans who deserve compensation of one kind or another and have let it pass. I am wanting this blog to be a go to place to find out how you get receive what you earned.

Each post from now on will have updates as to how my appeal is going, and how I am doing on a second appeal for a back injury I received when I was thrown for a jeep.

Stay strong my fellow veterans. Be proud of your service. You did your share to protect our country and no one can take that away from you!

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Remember:

You are never alone.

You are never forsaken.

You are never unloved.

And above all…never, ever, give up!