Need VA disability
A REMF ( Rear Echelon Mother F..... ) is anyone who had a job that the person slinging the term REMF around thinks was easier or more safe than his. The term was a corruption of the term Rear Echelon Maintenance Facility and the straight leg infantry or the Marine grunt infantry looked back at those assigned support roles as skaters and not 'real' soldiers. They forgot Bataan where clerks, electricians, engineers, radioteletype operators and anyone else who could pull a trigger was an infantryman during those weeks of combat. Today the term has been replaced with another derogotory slander, the FOBBIT ( a person who never leaves the 'security' of the Forward Operatinbg Base [FOB] ) disregarding all else but the need to put another person, or class of persons, into a position lower than ones own.
Let ALL who have written the big check, payable up to and including ones life, be given the respect that commitment deserves. Just because I got a bullethole and metal fragments in my hide doesn't make me any more deserving of VA care than the poor fellow who typed out the requisitions for beans, bullets, and bombs required to keep me able to do MY job. Do I resent the "Garret Trooper", the fellow who was everywhere and did everything from behind his Remington Typewriter? Sometimes. But those who think their service was less than anothers quite often make things up so that they can bee seen in a better light by people they want to impress. They don't know that the fellow who wiped the Elephant's ass has a very sensitive bullshit detector and feels pity for that poor man.
Don T
