(I agree with your points, and gentle reminder on HN's conventions of discourse: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

IMHO, many disabled veterans not getting all the help they need, which the US could muster, seems to be a real and unconscionable problem.

As well as there being tragedies of veterans who the US can't help enough. (Recently including a friend of a friend, who died young, believed due to burn pits.)

This context is another reason we should be careful about vocal speculation of benefits/aid fraud. Dismissive-sounding talk risks making a terrible situation even worse, for many genuinely injured people.