You are correct. But I believe there HAS to be something established to prevent peoples lives from being destroyed, active, reserve, or whatever, and our government just saying “oh, well, legislation says we are not responsible”. That’s complete negligence. Or am I the crazy one?! LOL!! A soldier is a soldier! Am I wrong for wanting to see a change?
Commander refusing to give LOD/National Guard State Active Duty/T32
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Its a travesty but unless the law changes there isn't much to be done. Even if they did a LOD it would need to be a system that the state picks up the tab. That's the issue. IDES is federal. My guess is this situation is so rare many if not all of the states don't have a mechanism to pay disability to Soldiers on state orders.
I agree with you there, the state should be responsible. And they can afford it. If they want to. If they can’t, they should not continue recruiting people to positions they can’t cover. In 2020, the KY general assembly started setting aside $1.25 million in funds, annually, to reimburse firefighters, even volunteers, for PTSD treatment. Up to $50K per person. They know its a problem, it just isn’t being dealt with. Yet…Thanks for your input! I appreciate it!
All we need now is for them to vote, and pass it!! We haven’t got a call to go, but fingers crossed they pass this and it becomes law!
Here we are again. No call to testify, and still struggling every day. SAD orders are a horrible idea when our Governor doesn’t provide some type of help for the injured soldiers, and pushes it off to a “third party” for responsibilty. In other words, F-off, and let your family deal with the problem. Thanks!!
Hello All! We are going to Frankfort next week to testify before the Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee on the state law that prevents PTSD without a physical injury to be covered under workers compensation. This injury was from State Active Duty, that ended up with a medical discharge due to a personality disorder, when it was PTSD.
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Good luck and I hope everything goes well for you!
Thank you so much! I hope we see a change!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmnoJBrwFmd7JK0HA9KcPaw
This is the hearing we attended. We begin at the 1 hour mark. I’m hoping that this law will protect all NG soldiers on state active duty with PTSD.
This is the hearing we attended. We begin at the 1 hour mark. I’m hoping that this law will protect all NG soldiers on state active duty with PTSD.
I just realized the link didn’t go to the video, just the channel.
My hope is that others know they aren’t alone.
For those that want to watch start at the 1 hour mark in the video.