We should absolutely have veterans be part of this active medical scientific advisory board. Honestly, and this has been asked not just by me but by Sean Bruyea and all kinds of veterans and advocates through SNAG, the special needs advisory group, and through the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman. VAC is broken.
When I went to war and I started coming home with all these illnesses, they decided to tweak the table of disability in 2000. We had already been falling through the cracks for 10 years. Then you find out it hadn't been amended since 1919.