For a country that really hammers in the shit about "Support our troops!", "Support our police!", "Support our firemen!", "Support the emergency responders!", America really just doesn't give a shit to take care of any of those people once they are done with their service. Then it's just to the garbage bin with those people and pick up a new batch of young, teary eyed, patriotic fools to ruin.
The only thing that probably bothers republicans is that those former servicemen don't die/commit suicide fast enough, so they gotta pretend to care.