We have now two Army's Types that cause a major conflict of interest: The Old Draft Military where the Pay was just a down payment for the troops and the VA Benefits were the most important part of the pay.
Then you have the Now all Voluntary army created in theory as, more troops pay, Military on duty benefits given now, and less benefits from the Old VA.
But it isn't working that way, because of our new unexpected wars, we never got around to separating the two, to the point of discriminating against the Veterans of the Old Military, that ended up getting the men and women from the old military to be set aside, neglected, and killed because they couldn't get appointments, instead of those from the new all volunteer military being cut from the VA as was expected to happen to offset the, costs to the old Veterans and have an all Voluntary military.
A voluntary Military is also called a mercenary military or troops paid up front to fight. We best start weening the new military from the VA and take care of the troops that fought for the benefits and a small pay check down payment.
