The Inadequate Assistance Provided to Service Members
The assistance provided to our respected service members is inadequate for their well-being and can eventually lead to morale, psychological stability, and other issues. This is in reference to the wounds that have occurred as a result of the conflict, and in this sense, the extreme wounds conceived after the war are the damage caused by injuries to the expectations of conduct, recognition, and values.
The Challenges Faced by Veterans Upon Returning from War Zones
Veterans undergo significant transformations upon their return from war zones, including physical hardships, and they are strongly advised and encouraged to consider themselves as disabled, a consideration that will entitle them to special payments for their health on disability grounds. This is more of a double tragedy to our able men as it renders them to inability hence an increase in dependency ratio to aids. However, this boom is made distinct with specific factors that govern it, including their vulnerability to specific infections that result to specific diseases. Consequently, a huge number of the servicemen are meant to be home keepers and take on the disability package for their welfare. This is, however, a challenge in regard to human potential since some of them are of a younger age with their full potential, a regard as the total erosion of potential and denial of a chance to maximize their full potential. Besides, there are many possibilities of immoral practices like abuse of drugs whenever all is staying back at home. Because of this obliviousness, special economic empowerment procedures have to be appreciated and help tap into the identification and maximizing the individual potential of these able men to better their welfare and the entire community.
The Inadequacy of Veteran Compensation and Support
The main compensation that runs in the livelihood of the veterans is more of an obligatory, having been left as the better option, making the benefits quite non-befitting to the veterans (O'toole 18). The statistical assessment of the veteran dependency on this aid reveals a double increase dependency on the program at an interval of ten years. Due to the different economic challenges, any of the subjects would be compelled to get a revenue generator, which is a challenge with the possible physical or emotional instability at their disposal. In the previous years, most of the veterans could re-deploy themselves to laboring, adding value to the ecosystem but the work-related dependency ratio between these service men and the normal civilian is totally un-proportional, with the veterans being the lesser. This, however, has a psychological impact and tend to re-define their identity as denatured tools yet their total potential remains untapped. It is the reason as to why there should be a total change and shift of identity, their inductive process after war fields, to the rejuvenation of their abilities, to allow them to add more value and reestablish their core values as family people and superlative citizens (Shor 14).
The Neglect of Servicemen Welfare and Financial Mismanagement
The valuation factor in an event of a war does not factor the servicemen welfare satisfactorily, their health and total mutual support especially after the engagement. Political interest tends to take center stage with politicians being egocentric, disregarding the soldiers but their ruling cadre and class. Every event of the state has a prescribed budget and is well supported with valuable facts. However, some of the international engagements are a reflex action of an egocentric political act which takes place without proper budgeting (Orszag 15). Besides, these political interests disregard the rule of law and engage in useless international engagements and drifts that result to financial imbalances. This state eventually exposes the veterans as the lesser and tend to disorganize the entire state financial as well as business programs. Due to the hefty spending, the end results to finding possible solutions targets the veterans who incur the pain of the entire process. Nevertheless, this is also reflective during the war moments in the kind of arsenal the service men are provided with. Sophisticated weaponry is costly though more deliverable, but due to biases in the political priorities, there usually is improper planning and budgeting for the wars hence the servicemen are left exposed to lethal infections, attacks of which some are carcinogenic and terminal. This is totally absurd and tends to describe soldiers as pawned tools such that after the event the tools are carefully rendered to the owner (O'toole and Thomas 218). It is important to embrace humanity and the human values bestowed in the veterans so that, with due respect, all the misses during the entire process is reversed and veterans fully covered and compensated.
The Mismanagement of Veterans' Benefits
The mismanagement of the veterans' benefits has had an impact on their welfare, making the veteran benefits improper. Systems and the reliable program employed for these processes are inadequate and outdated. Instances of systems updating have resulted in major losses of the veterans' benefits in the pretext of malfunctioning. Improper training of the veterans' staff, lack of adequate supervision of the services as well as the terms of disability engaged when initially enrolled in the disability program is a major setback in the benefits delivery (Henderson 8). Due to the direct involvement of the veterans in the event of national drifts, and the motivation of the present service men, sufficient and well-organized program should be enacted and well-funded for the entire veteran community. There should possibly be a private independent program taking care of the veteran, inspected by the government officials. This will objectivate the veterans' needs and esteem their personalities.
The Importance of Timely and Proper Veteran Benefits
The major interest of a veteran is his benefits and any delay is equated to possible denial. The challenges inflicted on the veterans in the war fields are numerous and some are permanent. Hundreds of veterans who come out with permanent disabilities become a direct call for action and if not supported this shift directly to the family. Partly they are compelled to seek for private home keepers as they cannot work for longer hours or totally cannot work. Back pains, spinal cord defects are among the physical damages got out of the war fields, scenarios that must get full support (Cowen 5). Mental anomalies render the veterans impaired of their future and lack of driving targets in life. The government huge backlog on the veteran benefits is a call for action for the overall national concern of which possible practices for the veteran welfare should be formulated and gazette to allow the entire nation to support our service men. This is a possible action that would possibly call for a small increase of revenue collection on specific goods or services or both nationwide. Poverty is a silent killer to the veterans in the event of delayed benefits. Some of the service men result in suicide as the remaining option, a clear indication of depression among the veterans. The overall family needs and focus destabilizes and most of the families get their lives below the poverty levels (Fargo 9). Psychological support should be given to the service men besides other financial boosts. There should be a special docket in the office of the president and a program when the head of state visits all the veteran and their issues revisited individually. A moment when special gifts are allowed from fellow citizens and state officials for the veterans.
Work Cited
Cowen. War, citizenship, territory. Routledge, 2010.
Fargo. Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans. Springer, 2012.
Henderson. Compensation management in a knowledge-based world. Prentice Hall, 2013. 8.
Orszag. Analysis of the Growth in Funding for Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Elsewhere in the War on Terrorism. DIANE Publishing., 2010.
O’toole, Thomas. “Health care of homeless veterans.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. (2013): 18.
Shor. Empowering education. University of Chicago Press, 2012, 14.
