Mr Bones Spurs himself who was afraid to fight now denying them retirement benefits. That ****ing disgusting
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move. The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service. An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.” About a dozen service members had been “prematurely notified” that they would be able to retire before that decision was reversed, according to the spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal Air Force policy. A memo issued Monday announcing the new policy, which was reviewed by the AP, said that the choice to deny retirement benefits was made “after careful consideration of the individual applications.” All transgender members of the Air Force are being separated from the service under the Trump administration’s policies. regardless of how u may feel about transgender people, this is just incredibly cruel and fcked up to treat people who have served that long like this
That's disgusting. I hope they get some legal recourse for this blatant bigoted denial of the benefits they should receive. It's disgusting when some loser who cowered to actually serve, would deny those braver than him their benefits. You have the jerks who never served themselves acting like they are more macho than someone transgender, just like Mr. Bones Spurs in his giant suit and giant tie.
Trump Finds A New Way To Harm Veterans By Union Busting At The VA The Trump administration announced that it will be terminating the contracts of hundreds of thousands of VA employees in a blatant act of union busting. VA today notified the following unions that, effective immediately, pursuant to the EO their contracts with VA have been terminated for most bargaining-unit employees: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE); National Association of Government Employees (NAGE); National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE); National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU); and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). This is union busting, and the move will harm veterans because it is the removal of skilled workers who care for our vets. The move by the Trump administration isn’t about providing veterans with the best care. Trump has a long history of contempt for those who served. What the Trump administration is doing to the VA is based on partisan ideology, not sound public policy. American veterans will receive worse service and care from the VA because the Trump administration wanted to bust unions. Workers will be harmed. Veterans will be hurt, as a system that has strived to hold up a sacred commitment to those who served their country is being weakened and dismantled. https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/trump-finds-a-new-way-to-harm-veterans
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier. Veterans hospitals are struggling to replace hundreds of doctors and nurses who have left the health care system this year as the Trump administration pursues its pledge to simultaneously slash Department of Veterans Affairs staff and improve care. Many job applicants are turning down offers, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency, according to internal documents examined by ProPublica. The records show nearly 4 in 10 of the roughly 2,000 doctors offered jobs from January through March of this year turned them down. That is quadruple the rate of doctors rejecting offers during the same time period last year. https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump
Amid Federal Cuts, a Massive Veteran DNA Project Is in Limbo Scientists are worried about the future of the Million Veteran Program, which houses critical data for health research. One of the world’s biggest genetic databases comprises DNA data donated over the years by more than a million retired military service members. It’s part of a project run by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The initiative, dubbed the Million Veteran Program, is a “crown jewel of the country,” said David Shulkin, a physician who served as VA secretary during the first Trump administration. Data from the project has contributed to research on the genetics of anxiety and peripheral artery disease, for instance, and has resulted in hundreds of published papers. Researchers say the repository has the potential to help answer health questions not only specific to veterans — like who is most vulnerable to post-service mental health issues, or why they seem more prone to cancer — but also relevant to the nation as a whole. “When the VA does research, it helps veterans, but it helps all Americans,” Shulkin said in an interview. The uncertainty has caused “incremental” damage, Justice said, pointing to some Million Veteran Program grants that have lapsed. As the year progresses, she predicted, “people are going to be feeling it a lot.” Because of their military experience, maintaining veterans’ health poses different challenges compared with caring for civilians. The program’s examinations of genetic and clinical data allow researchers to investigate questions that have bedeviled veterans for years. As examples, Shulkin cited “how we might be able to better diagnose earlier and start thinking about effective treatments for these toxic exposures” — such as to burn pits used to dispose of trash at military outposts overseas — as well as predispositions to post-traumatic stress disorder. “The rest of the research community isn’t likely to focus specifically” on veterans, he said. The VA community, however, has delivered discoveries of importance to the world: Three VA researchers have won Nobel Prizes, and the agency created the first pacemaker. Its efforts also helped ignite the boom in GLP-1 weight loss drugs. The program’s examinations of genetic and clinical data allow researchers to investigate questions that have bedeviled veterans for years. Yet turbulence has been felt throughout the VA’s research enterprise. Like other government scientific agencies, it’s been buffeted by layoffs, contract cuts, and canceled research. “There are planned trials that have not started, there are ongoing trials that have been stopped, and there are trials that have fallen apart due to staff layoffs — yes or no?” said Sen. Patty Murray, pressing Collins in a May hearing of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. https://undark.org/2025/07/22/veterans-affairs-dna-database/ I haven't found any updates on this. Is it still in limbo?
I don't understand why Veterans still support Trump. He hands out medals and pretends to love Vets and then turns around and does things over and over again to hurt them. Old Bone Spurs makes me sick with his spitting on Vets. He parades the military and uses them for his show of force, but screws veterans over left and right.
My uncle worked at a VA hospital in Massachusetts for nearly 30 years and recently retired in his early 60's due to the immense workload from lack of staff/resources. Vets were already an underserved community and the privatization of the VA sector has been contributing to the degradation of the quality and availability of services. DT's actions are just the cherry on top. People who unconditionally support these politicians are so odd to me because they genuinely do not care about you. If there's an opportunity for personal gain and it comes at the expense of your life, they will take it 10 times out of 10.
