The cottage industry built around coaching veterans to claim disability ratings they don't qualify for is one of the worst-kept secrets in American government spending. Nobody touches it because any criticism gets immediately framed as attacking veterans. That shield has made the fraud untouchable and the culture worse. Now it's not even accidental. People are enlisting specifically to punch out with a lifetime disability check after minimal service. Anxiety from a two-year desk stint in the reserves counts. The system is wide open. The people who get hurt are the ones who actually came home broken. Their benefits get diluted, their credibility gets poisoned, and they have to share a category with people gaming a system designed for them.