I work in medicine, and one of the hospitals in our system is the VA. I have literally no interest in serving veterans; people who fight in wars for America pretty much stand and act against everything I believe in. It's not necessarily that I think these people don't deserve great healthcare, it's that I don't want to be the one giving it to them. I would much rather spend my time serving people from my community who didn't spend large parts of their lives wrecking other communities.
Sure, some of my patients anywhere are going to be complete assholes. Sure, there are a lot of veterans who weren't involved in combat (but they did directly aid those in combat at least, right?). Idk, is there a perspective I'm not seeing here? Is it wrong for me to be morally opposed to working for the VA?
We have the VA for the same reason we have the GI bill, tricare, barracks, etc.
Without the appeal of getting your basic needs taken care of, far less people would enlist. If everyone had access to free healthcare, education, and housing why would people sign up?
You’d only get the patriotic chuds and military families to serve, but the war machine is dependent on having hundreds of thousands of disposable bodies.