The VA is larger than the U.S. Army.
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as it should be. there are many more vets who need healthcare than there are active duty soldiers. what is the point of the comparison?
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Yes, they are.
And the VA needs more, not less people to take care of our Veterans who have served our country.
The place to cut back to help balance the budget is military spending. Also, IMO abled body people on food stamps and Medicaid should have to work for those benefits.
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Even with improvements made in the last decade, there is still much work to do to improve the notoriously terrible VA customer service/care. Hopefully DOGE finds the $82k (each) bed pans and other fraud in the org those monies get directed to actually helping Vets.
I think you are looking at this all wrong, Nick. To state; The U.S. Army has 450,000 active duty personnel. The VA has 482,000 employees," does not mention how many veterans severed and are survivors or wives or husbands of veterans over the past 5 decades. VA does help veterans not active duty service personnel.
Over the past five decades (roughly 1975-2025), the number of U.S. veterans has decreased significantly, from around 29 million in 1980 to roughly **16.2 million in 2022.
So with the VA’s roughly 482,000 employees, divided by 16 million, leaves approximately 0.030125 employees to help a single veteran. Not good numbers, Nick.
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Good point Jeffrey but Nick is comparing apples to oranges.
VA is Veterans Affairs. A veteran is a person who has served in the armed forces, not serves in the armed forces, and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. They are not active duty armed forces members.
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Actually, the VA provides benefits to Veterans as well as active-duty personnel including active duty National Guard and Reserves.
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It’s confusing when one side calls the other “War Mongers”..and spending all the tax payers’ money… 
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Afternoon, Kevin.
That I did not know. Actually, from what I have gleaned; while the VA (Veterans Affairs) primarily focuses on providing benefits to Veterans, it does not provide benefits to active-duty personnel.
From what I understand, any active-duty personnel, who are currently serving in the military, are typically covered by the Department of Defense and other military-specific programs, not the VA.
I will look further into this.
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Thank you, Kevin.
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$8700/hr not bad…
My 28 year old son is a medicaly retired Airborne Army Ranger and has had no trouble obtaining medical care. He can go to just about any walk-in clinic, hospital, etc around his home. If he wants to go to the VA hospital he can but he does not have to. He was an E5 when he was injured in practive night jumps preparing for the Afganistan withdrawl debocal! He is fully moble and has three herniated disk at age 28 but classifed as 100% disabled. The Army tried to rehabiltate but it was not going to happen. He now has a great civilan job making more than I ever thought about with full military benifits ontop of his company benifits!
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Your son is a hero. Thank him for his service.
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It’s so funny how a statement stirs the nest
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