Rep. Doug Lamborn reduced support of troops to slogan

Bill would expand PTSD benefits

By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Apr 26, 2008 7:29:24 EDT

House lawmakers have reworked a bill that would make it easier for veterans to get benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder by not requiring them to prove their exposure to a stressor.

Lawmakers expanded the meaning of “combat with the enemy” to include “active service in a theater of combat operations during a period of war; or in combat against a hostile force during a period of hostilities.”

That means a cook who witnesses the aftermath of a roadside bomb explosion or a clerk who spends his evenings in bomb shelters in the green zone as rockets hit qualify for medical benefits after being diagnosed with PTSD.

“There are cases of people coming home from Iraq with all the classic symptoms and being denied care,” said John Hall, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs disability assistance subcommittee.

As more cases of suicide, divorce and bankruptcy appear, ensuring veterans receive the care they need becomes more important, Hall said April 24.

But Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., offered an amendment to delete that section of the Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 entirely because, he said, it reduces the significance of the experience of those who “actually did face the enemy.”
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Party: Republican

Residence: Colorado Springs

Marital Status: M (Jean)

Prev. Occupation: Attorney

Prev. Political Exp.: CO House 1995-98; CO Senate, 1998-2006

Education: BS University of Kansas, 1978; JD University of Kansas, 1985

Birthdate: 05/24/1954

Birthplace: Leavenworth, KS

Religion: Christian
Doug Lamborn (born May 24, 1954, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a Republican politician for the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves in the United States House of Representatives as the Congressman for Colorado's 5th congressional district, based in Colorado Springs. He has been assigned to the Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the Committee on Natural Resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Lamborn

So as you can see we have another non-veteran on the Veteran's Affair Committee acting as if the has one single clue what PTSD is, what men and women sent into WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq or any of the other operations they have gone to, did to them no matter if they had a gun in their hands or not. Amazing! It's not like he was too young to go to Vietnam or to serve at any point in his life. After all, he was young enough to have been in at least three wars. So why wasn't he? The only "enemy" he had to face were Democratic Party members trying to undo all the harm they did to the DOD and the VA!!!!!!! Shame on him!