Isn`t it Good to Know How Well Our Injured Soldiers are treated??

Question

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/article1105917.ece

An Iraqui teenager accidentally shot by a British soldier, is in line to receive £2 million in compensation.

While this guy gets £61,000, for losing a leg, and his benefits and parking badge taken away.

Disgusting!

Answer 1

Us ex soldiers had a saying " You take the shilling and take the risks". But yes , I agree with you completely. Our brave service personnel are fighting a war, maybe not a just one, but they are doing their duty to the best of their ability.They are all serving their country, that means us, they should be given all care and respect, that means respect from the government, who are the reason that they are in harms way, and each and everyone of us when they come home !

Answer 2

Who on earth would join the army today? They are treated like c**p!

Answer 3

The boy who was shot was not a member of the Army, he did not think that there could be a chance that he would be shot at all.  It is not part of his job to keep peace and fight in wars, he was an innocent civillian.

As much as I hate to say it, thats why he got 2 million in compensation.

I dont think any soldier who is injured in the line of duty should have their benefits taken off them, but at the end of the day they are doing their job and when they signed on that dotted line they knew what they were signing up for.

Answer 4

After the First World War. the British Government's 'Homes Fit For Heroes' building programme was abandoned half-way through. People never learn.

Answer 5

Those compensation packages are to appease the guilt of the warmongerers and to make them look good at home. Oh, look at this ONE poor war child whose legs we blew off and we're bringing him home to have the best medical treatment. Aren't we nice people even though we maimed and killed thousands of other children, women and men? It's hypocritical and self-serving.

Answer 6

I can't believe this story!   Our soldiers know the risks when they join up, yes, it's part of their job.  I'm sure this guy did not expect any compensation but I'm equally sure that having been injured fighting for his country then the least he could expect is to be given a certain level of care and consideration.

To lose his disability benefits and his blue badge is a complete disgrace.

Answer 7

I can't understand why the newspaper hacks don't whip up some sort of protest about our men's treatment when returned home with grotesque injuries.  They are quick enough to open their large mouths about things of lesser importance.

Answer 8

joanne, what u have to understand is, if ur son was shot by a soldier, hed be innocent right?  but a soldier has signed a contract to fight for his country, so he has agreed to risk getting injured

thats the difference

Answer 9

The Iraqi civilian did not sign on the dotted line knowing that to be injured, maimed or killed was a hazard of the job, as my husband did.

I know a number of Servicemen who remain in the Army despite having been injured. I personally know of one with one eye (lost the other in a bomb blast), and one with one leg who are currently serving. Those who are released are pensionable. Please don't jump on the tabloid bandwagon. If the compensation issue gets ot of control a country involved in so many conflicts could be quickly bankrupted and Soldiers DO know the risk.

Answer 10

seems like they are mistreated but any compensation is too hard to get for are injured men. @ million it seems to be a rare accourance must have one h**l of an attourny and could have be his superiors neglegence that caused the compensation. It really helps to know people who know how to get compensated. If the US paid two million to one guy which I'm sure they have numerous times it would cost the fund so much they would less and less provide good enough compensation for that.Though there are million in that fund

Answer 11

Normally I don't even look at the sun, and got a lot of flak for a similiar Q last week. Its one rule for the armed services and another for everyone else. There is the argument that troops go where they are sent, and by joining up they have accepted the risks of combat. Then there is my view                                its called respect, its quite simple yet lacking in certain quarters of our Govt, and population.

Answer 12

Let's hope that Anne McGuire can get his blue badge re-instated as he certainly meets the criteria required.

The reason his badge was rescinded was because he received a prosthetic limb - therefore removing his infirmity - this is not my view - I am seeing it from the pen-pushing civil servants, which remember, never see or meet the applicants, all they do is process paper and tick or not tick the box, and as they don't meet them they have no emotive reason to grant the required benefit.  Maybe all applicants should be submitted to a total physical exam by a doctor appointed by and working only for the government and not the usual - please submit doctors report.  It would cut back the amount of taxpayers money paid out to benefit fraudsters.

The sun newspaper never divulges the whole story they just love sensationalism - sells papers.