I was in Viet Nam in 1965-66 in the Iron Triangle. When I tried to see if I could get Veteran Benefits I was told because I make more than $30,000 per year I was not eligible. I was not aware until now that when you fight in this countries wars only certain veterans are eligible for benefits.

But then this is the way the US has treated Viet Nam Veterans since we came back from the war.

They talk about WWII Vets as being the Greatest Generation. Well Viet Nam Vets are the most abused.

I agree with Vet. And where are all the people who wave their flags and shout at us to "support the troops?" They do nothing, by and large. This is a tragedy, but people here don't care. They talk a good game, but just take a look: this article is not in the top-ten most popular. It should be number one. But I guess this weekend the Jazz are a bit more important.

My husband joined the army the day he turned 17. During basic training his unit was taken somewhwere, told to lay in a ditch, and an atomic blast was set off. Most members of his unit later died and we have been unable to even find a record of this testing. He served army in the early 60's and Vietnam era in the later 60's. Have never been able to find any medical records from the service. The military just lies. My Dad was WWII atomic clean-up and later experimented on at VA hospital in Salt Lake. He was cheated, too.

A very ambiguous article title. When I first read it I thought it was talking about guinea pig veterinarians.

Chris 3000, sounds like someone who has never served in any of the military services. Or he is someone who does not like the military in general.
I will say this, those vets who served in the Armed Forces during the late 1940's through the 1990's who were exposed to various NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Radialogical) tests. It does not shock me that the Military services do this. It would cost them some big bucks to medically service all these vets.
As we said during while I was in the service was that we were either bullet stoppers or radiation absorbers.
The Army, Air Force and the Navy all had men and women to maintain their nuclear arsenal. All of them were required to wear radiation badges. All three services never had anyone overexposed to radiation by wearing these badges. However, they did manage somehow to loose some of those badges. Once a radiation badge that you were wearing is lost, you can no longer work in a nuclear/radialogical career. This is according to the NRC.