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Older Men - Keep One Foot In The Dark Ages When You Really Want to Meet the Diversity Requirements CERN to test world's most powerful particle accelerator during April's solar eclipse Utopian Visionaries Who Won’t Leave People Alone Status: Not Logged In; Sign In Corrupt Government See other Corrupt Government Articles Title: POS VA Secretary MacDonald Lies And Embellishes Military Service Record--Vets Disgusted, Sickened! Source: ABC News URL Source: http://abc7.com/news/va-secretary-a ... rved-in-special-forces/531917/ Published: Feb 24, 2015 Author: Paul H.B. Shin Post Date: 2015-02-24 10:54:26 by TEA Party Reveler Keywords: Veterans Administration, Veterans, VA scandals Views: 1335 Comments: 13 Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald apologized today for mistakenly saying in a videotaped exchange with a homeless man that he had served in the special forces, though his service was entirely with the 82nd Airborne Division. "Secretary McDonald has apologized for the misstatement and noted that he never intended to misrepresent his military service," a White House officials told ABC News. "We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he's doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation's veterans." The exchange with the homeless man was part of a report about an effort to find military veterans among the homeless that aired on CBS News on Jan. 30. "While I was in Los Angeles, engaging a homeless individual to determine his Veteran status, I asked the man where he had served in the military," McDonald said in a statement today. "He responded that he had served in special forces. I incorrectly stated that I had been in special forces. That was inaccurate and I apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. "I have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces," McDonald added. "They, and all Veterans, deserve a Department of Veterans Affairs that provides them the care and benefits they have earned. I remain committed to continuing our progress to improve VA services and our ongoing effort to reform VA for the long-term." McDonald, former Procter and Gamble CEO, served with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and completed jungle, arctic and desert warfare training, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. He earned the Ranger tab, the Expert Infantryman Badge and Senior Parachutist wings, the VA added, noting that McDonald, who retired as a captain, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal after leaving the service. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: All (#0) Fuck you and your piece of shit government motherfucker! TEA Party Reveler  posted on  2015-02-24   10:55:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #2. To: TEA Party Reveler (#0) Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald apologized today for mistakenly saying in a videotaped exchange with a homeless man that he had served in the special forces, though his service was entirely with the 82nd Airborne Division. "Secretary McDonald has apologized for the misstatement and noted that he never intended to misrepresent his military service," a White House officials told ABC News. "We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he's doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation's veterans." The exchange with the homeless man was part of a report about an effort to find military veterans among the homeless that aired on CBS News on Jan. 30. "While I was in Los Angeles, engaging a homeless individual to determine his Veteran status, I asked the man where he had served in the military," McDonald said in a statement today. "He responded that he had served in special forces. I incorrectly stated that I had been in special forces. That was inaccurate and I apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. "I have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces," McDonald added. "They, and all Veterans, deserve a Department of Veterans Affairs that provides them the care and benefits they have earned. I remain committed to continuing our progress to improve VA services and our ongoing effort to reform VA for the long-term." McDonald, former Procter and Gamble CEO, served with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and completed jungle, arctic and desert warfare training, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. He earned the Ranger tab, the Expert Infantryman Badge and Senior Parachutist wings, the VA added, noting that McDonald, who retired as a captain, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal after leaving the service. I wasn't going to talk about this, but since the truth is starting to come out about the mid level and upper level management of the VA, I think this is the time to correct some serious misconceptions of the VA health system. On October 5th, my wife and I left Maine to come to Rio Ranchi, NM to help our son and duaghter-in-law with their three girls, Lexi 1, Brea 4 and Kellie 12. Well we got there on the 23 and everything was wonderful. Then on November 17th Dan and my wife rushed me to the VA Emergency Room, I thought I was constipated, it took the VA staff less than an hour to not only get me into the ER but get the first X-rays done finding that I had a seriously blocked colon that would require emergency surgery, in under 30 hours I was being operated on, a foot of colon was removed and an colostomy bag installed. The Doctors, nurses, techs, etc were excellent, I was alive and every member of the medical team and support staffs were ding everything they could to keep me that way. On November 27th, I went home, weak but alive, my Surgeon, Dr. Reuben Last, one of the nicest guys God has ever created, spent a lot of time with me, and finally told me that while had removed the cancer in my Colon, it was in my blood and elsewhere, that I was a stage three cancer patient and that the VA was offering me Chemotherapy. It was then that Dr. Last and I had a long talk about my not wanting to have chemo and instead would be using massive amounts of raw, bitter Apricot Kernels, Apricots and prayer. His reply was simple, he said "Bob, this is the VA, here you are the ultimate decider of your care." On February 6th I was once again rushed to the VA ER, this time with a Saddle Blood Clot blocking the main artery coming into the lungs form the heart, this was much more life threatening than my first visit. This time I got one of the dark blue, almost black under sheets made out of a rubberized canvas, used for patients not expected to live. And pain beyond belief. Once again the Doctors and Nurses, the Technical people and all others were superb, Six days later I was again able to leave. But one the second to last day, on the tenth of February, I had the misfortune of meeting a mid level manager. My wife and I were talking a little walk, as we went by a room, there was a voice, weak but clear calling out for help, it was to low for anyone not standing right outside the door to hear it, so only Cec and I could hear it, we immediately called for help, she louder than me. Within seconds Nurses, others and a doctor responded and were in the mans room, in getting there, a nurse bumped into this mid level bureaucrat. Fellow LFers, let me tell you, the media lies, all of the medical staff I came in contact with at the Albuquerque A are top drawer, it is the mid level managers and above that needs to be horse whipped along with their apologist in the media and body politic. Let me just add this, I am now cancer free and had I been using Chemo when the Embolism hit, I would have been to weak to survive. Only one member of the medical staff, only one, a doctor, turned a deaf ear to my needs because I rejected Chemo, every other member of the medical staff was supportive and some even curious. I now see where this arrogance, I found in this mid level manager from the Boston area, comes from. BobCeleste  posted on  2015-02-24   13:33:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #3. To: BobCeleste (#2) Sorry about your up and down medical issues, Bob, but you don't provide any details about the mid-level VA manager who apparently peed you off. Please expound...thanks. Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-02-24   14:05:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #4. To: BobCeleste (#2) Hang in there Bob! TEA Party Reveler  posted on  2015-02-24   15:10:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #5. To: TEA Party Reveler (#4) (Edited) Hang in there Bob! Thanks, I am no longer terminal. Thanks to God, my wife and the care I got at the VA hospital in Albuquerque. In that order. BobCeleste  posted on  2015-02-24   15:51:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #6. To: TEA Party Reveler (#0) He earned the Ranger tab, the Expert Infantryman Badge and Senior Parachutist wings, the VA added, noting that McDonald, who retired as a captain, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal after leaving the service. This guy was a West Point honor graduate and senior class leader that had a Ranger Tab,Senior parachute wings,and Expert Infantryman Badge,and RETIRED FROM THE ARMY AS A CAPTAIN???????? Was he caught humping little boys while stealing food from a nursery? There was and is something seriously wrong with his character. West Point honor graduates and senior class leaders do NOT retire from the army as Captains unless it is with a medical retirement. IF he retired on medical disability,you would think that would be mentioned. Especially since he has been appointed to lead the VA. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-25   5:47:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #7. To: BobCeleste (#5) Thanks to God, my wife and the care I got at the VA hospital in Albuquerque. Good for you,Bob! It must be stated that you were very lucky,though. Not all VA hospitals are so understanding. I have been threatened with loss of treatment twice by VA hospitals in different states due to my refusing to take drugs recommended by the doctors due to misdiagnoses. The last time was by a foreign doctor that had a degree from a Jamaican medical school that insisted I had congestive heart failure until I went to a outside medical center and paid my own dime to have the tests ran to prove I didn't. I even had copies of the EKG and ultrasound to take to the VA hospital to go along with the charts to prove I didn't have congestive heart failure,and the SOB didn't know how to read the charts. Then he changed the diagnosis to liver cancer and wanted to start treating me for that. The problem was I had polyps blocking my gall bladder. I complained to the hospital administration about this doctor and threatened to contact the local tv media if they didn't give me a different doctor after he refused to send me to a surgeon about surgery to remove the gall bladder and telling me to "not worry about it because people live for years with bad gall bladders." I was first scheduled for gall bladder surgery 3 months after handing all the medical data I had paid for over to the VA. The surgery was canceled the day it was scheduled. I found this out when I went there for the surgery and was informed the surgeon wasn't available,and they would re-schedule me. Which they did. The second surgery was scheduled for about 2 months later,and it was canceled by letter 2 weeks before it was scheduled to happen. IIRC,the surgeon had been called up for reserve duty. So they rescheduled me again,and while I was waiting for the 3rd scheduled surgery to happen,my gall bladder burst on me one morning around 2 AM,and dumped all that poison into my blood stream. I drove myself to a local ER about 25 miles away and was having emergency surgery to remove the infected gall bladder before sunrise. The VA refused to pay for the surgery,and left me holding the bag for a 48+ thousand dollar hospital bill. Their excuse was ,I "should have had the surgery done at a VA hospital." The VA also used this excuse to avoid paying for my emergency surgery when I had flesh-eating bacteria and was in intensive care for 11 days after the surgery. The surgeon told me after the surgery that if I had gotten there 30 minutes later I would have died and there would have been nothing they could have done to save me. The local ER I drove to was about 25 miles from my house,and the nearest VA hospital was about 65 miles from my house. And this was with me being a 100 percent service-connected disabled veteran. BTW,when I checked on his credentials,the Jamaican doctor I complained about had been fired from the U of Pa medical school before he went to work for the VA,and has since been fired by the VA. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-25   6:09:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #8. To: sneakypete (#7) Wow, Pete, I guess I have been both lucky and blessed. Each time the VA has refused to pay I have appealed and the bill was paid. BobCeleste  posted on  2015-02-25   12:33:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #9. To: BobCeleste (#8) Each time the VA has refused to pay I have appealed and the bill was paid. I lost each time,and the only thing that saved me was Medicare paid 80 percent and some of the doctors and even the hospital wrote off some of the debt. Even then it still took me over 10 years to pay it all off,sending 50 bucks a month to the hospital for each surgery and ER visit,and 50 bucks a month to each doctor and lab. When I got one paid off,I used the 50 bucks I had been spending there to double up on another one. If I hadn't done that I would still be paying them off. Since then I did have a colostomy to get polyps removed from my colon,and thyroid cancer surgery done at the local hospital with the VA paying for it,but both times I was able to schedule those surgeries in advance and the local VA hospital had no doctors on staff to perform those surgeries. I'm still hosed when it comes to ER visits and emergency surgeries,though. The new VA "outpatient" clinic is only 25 miles away,and that makes it 20 miles too close for me to qualify for a fee basis card. My only options are to die or go to the local hospital and pay the bills. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-25   14:32:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: sneakypete (#9) The new VA "outpatient" clinic is only 25 miles away,and that makes it 20 miles too close for me to qualify for a fee basis card. My only options are to die or go to the local hospital and pay the bills. Ours is about 37 miles. BobCeleste  posted on  2015-02-25   19:24:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #11. To: BobCeleste (#10) Ours is about 37 miles Which places you more than 8 miles too close to qualify for the new fee basis card. I say "more than 8 miles" because the VA uses the "as the crow flies" method to determine distance from their nearest outlet,not actual highway miles. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-25   21:38:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #12. To: sneakypete (#11) I say "more than 8 miles" because the VA uses the "as the crow flies" method to determine distance from their nearest outlet,not actual highway miles. I didn't know that. I'm going to start a new thread later today. I think we need to let Veterans know that the Albuquerque VA hospital is good, the Maine VA system, mediocre, and yours horrible. We, as veterans need to have a place to vent, name names, and give objective and honest advice concerning where to go and where not to go, what politicians are honestly supportive of us, which ones hate us and which ones use us(that would be the majority). It will be entitled, The Good, the Bad, and the thoroughly detestable BobCeleste  posted on  2015-02-26   11:55:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #13. To: BobCeleste (#12) I think we need to let Veterans know that the Albuquerque VA hospital is good, the Maine VA system, mediocre, and yours horrible. This changes with the directors,and the heat Congress and/or the media is putting on any of them at any specific time. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-26   13:38:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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