I am going to guess that the government sees "used" soldiers as a welfare drain, and given our history of constantly cutting welfare back to the point of near-uselessness....well, you do the math.

Perhaps to properly take care of our used soldiers, it would leave less in the budget for shiny new toys to mothball, and the Pentagon doesn't consider that they'd get any "return" on the "investment"? After all, aren't they rescinding the enlistment bonuses for injured/discharged vets, because the vets haven't fulfilled their contractual obligation?

It's sad and sick, and it's pathetic for a country this rich and powerful, that prides itself on it's military might to be so callous towards post-combat care, but the Pentagon never struck me as the empathic, sentimental type.

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....