{"id":14493,"date":"2011-12-08T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2011-12-08T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:46:15","slug":"va-adds-reproductive-organs-to-traumatic-injury-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/va-adds-reproductive-organs-to-traumatic-injury-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Adds Reproductive Organs to Traumatic Injury Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has\u00a0long been considered a wound so severe it&#8217;s often\u00a0the first question troops\u00a0ask after they&#8217;ve been hit.\u00a0 Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/military-traumatic-injury-pay-now-covers-genital-trauma-120211w\/\">Veterans&#8217; Administration is recognizing<\/a> the value of that most valued of body parts (at least to the male psyche):\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For males, the loss of one testicle would result in a $25,000 payment; of both, $50,000. The anatomical loss&#8230;a $50,000 payment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Women would receive similar payments for damage to their sexual organs.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/va-adds-reproductive-organ-injuries-to-insurance-1.162237\">payments mirror those made<\/a> for other traumatic wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility for the payments is retroactive to October 7, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has\u00a0long been considered a wound so severe it&#8217;s often\u00a0the first question troops\u00a0ask after they&#8217;ve been hit.\u00a0 Now the Veterans&#8217; Administration is recognizing the value of that most valued of body parts (at least to the male psyche):\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5285,2],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}