I've seen enough study and enough research. I've been to one of these CIMVHR conferences. They love their research money and they want to divide that apple a million and one ways. We're sick and tired of the research. Give us the apple. It's time.
As for the statement from the ombudsmen that they want to have all your benefits in place before release, I honestly don't know how they're ever going to get there. Here I am, 11 years later and just recently finally approved for a traumatic brain injury—11 years later. Many young veterans aren't as good fighters as I am. Ninety percent of them have too much pride to even want to fight more than one appeal: “Enough of this. I'm not going to deal with this. I want to be proud of my medals and I don't want to have to live out constantly reviewing and fighting things.”