Ole Cowboy
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Not sure why, but in our many conversations I never bothered to even ask. If you are a GO then you are up around 35 years AD, puts you in your mid 50's. Most folks start having problems by then. Could be minor like high blood pressure and a host of other things that affect us, but don't slow us down until you are sitting in front of the doc, getting ready to retire.What is their claimed disability or combination typically?
There is lots of fraud too even on lower levels, people claiming stuff that is hard to disprove.
I can say that most all GO's work hard, VERY hard. I would save average day is about 14 hrs. Many of these guys are indeed dead men walking. General Max Thurman died right after he retired like weeks. He was EATEN up with cancer, no one knew, not even my best friend the Surgeon Gen. I know it affected, he called me and we got together and he was in near tears asking how and why as he personally took care of GO's and knew Max very well. He told me Max must have been in MAJOR pain 24x7, not sure how he carried on. He was a 4 star and TRADOC Co, I personally did not like him, he did a lot of things I thought were wrong for the Army and wrong for soldiers...