Extremely unlikely, as the VA does not provide health insurance. And to even qualify for VA healthcare at all is nearly impossible unless you've suffered injuries in combat, or can prove a service related disability.
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Extremely unlikely, as the VA does not provide health insurance. And to even qualify for VA healthcare at all is nearly impossible unless you've suffered injuries in combat, or can prove a service related disability.
All that is required is that you served more than 30 days at Camp Lejeune. They had a well water contamination problem.
Health Care Benefts: Veterans who served at Camp Lejeune for 30 days or more between 1953-1987 are eligible for Priority Group 6 access to VA health care. My neighbor (also a former Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune) has already been approved and is using VA healthcare.
Well, that's close to the craziest thing I've ever heard. If you showered at Lejeune for 30 days, or served in Vietnam for a year tour, you're in the same priority group.
I wish it wasn't true but the contamination has caused a lot of cancers. I think the health issues came about from drinking the water rather than showering. Luckily I believe most of my hydration came from beer back in those days.
I wish it wasn't true but the contamination has caused a lot of cancers. I think the health issues came about from drinking the water rather than showering. Luckily I believe most of my hydration came from beer back in those days.
What strikes me as strange, is that given all the US bases and environments in which someone could have served over the past decades (I grew up on many of them), the VA came up with Camp Lejeune. That must have been some truly God-awful water, fit for a Jar Head.
I retired after serving more than 20 years and am in 8g, but Tricare for Life is a better deal anyway.
The water at Camp Lejeune was a travesty, they knew about it for years and did nothing and it extended to base housing so it impacted everyone's kids as well. I think there was even a Feres Doctrine supreme court case where a dependent tried to sue and was prevented from doing so. I think the priority 6 thing is an insufficient but best effort attempt for today's leaders to make up for the failure of yesterday's leaders.