Alright lads, reluctantly posting here by need some advice and have nowhere else to go .
I signed up for the infantry in 2013 started basic on the winter intake got around 3 months into training and got an injury on excercise.
I waited on a specialist to see me for 6 months and in that time was in a rehab platoon. I started doing browning with the lads going for p company again and got my fitness pretty decent compared to what it previously was. Decided to transfer.over to the parachute regiment and got accepted after being assessed by the 2ic of para coy on a ten miler.
Eventually my results from the specialist came in, and I got a discharge. My platoon commander was in shock and I had him, a few corporals, and my pti staff sign a letter saying I was an asset to the army and they saw me as medically fit.
I even offered to sign a waiver to say I couldn't sue or claim compensation if I received an injury again.
Nothing worked and I was discharged around 2015. I have family who all served in conflictslike the falklands , NI, Bosnia, Iraq etc, some for the full 22 years so this was a huge disappointment to me as it's all I wanted to do.
I was rather depressed for over a year about it and hated myself for getting discharged. When my veterans pin came I threw it away because I would never class myself as a veteran.
Fast forward to now and I eventually got over it all. I rven ended up getting a job through a company that trains up ex forces people regardless of degrees or no degrees from uni etc( I had none, left school at 14)
Was speaking to another lad there and he told me about this veterans association that provides houses to anyone with an injury from service.
I needed a house for me and my son etc and applied. I went for an interview with them and was more than up front about everything. Said i do have a permanent injury but was never deployed or anything like that and that it was from an injury at ITC.
Now they've done offered me a house and it's lovely. I've signed the lease But I feel really guilty taking it for obvious reasons.
My question is guys, in my situation would you say I'm entitled to this veterans house , or should I give them the keys back?
Everyone I talk to says they wouldn't have given me it if I wasn't entitled. (I haven't moved in yet) but I want people's advice who aren't civvies
Thanks for taking the time
I signed up for the infantry in 2013 started basic on the winter intake got around 3 months into training and got an injury on excercise.
I waited on a specialist to see me for 6 months and in that time was in a rehab platoon. I started doing browning with the lads going for p company again and got my fitness pretty decent compared to what it previously was. Decided to transfer.over to the parachute regiment and got accepted after being assessed by the 2ic of para coy on a ten miler.
Eventually my results from the specialist came in, and I got a discharge. My platoon commander was in shock and I had him, a few corporals, and my pti staff sign a letter saying I was an asset to the army and they saw me as medically fit.
I even offered to sign a waiver to say I couldn't sue or claim compensation if I received an injury again.
Nothing worked and I was discharged around 2015. I have family who all served in conflictslike the falklands , NI, Bosnia, Iraq etc, some for the full 22 years so this was a huge disappointment to me as it's all I wanted to do.
I was rather depressed for over a year about it and hated myself for getting discharged. When my veterans pin came I threw it away because I would never class myself as a veteran.
Fast forward to now and I eventually got over it all. I rven ended up getting a job through a company that trains up ex forces people regardless of degrees or no degrees from uni etc( I had none, left school at 14)
Was speaking to another lad there and he told me about this veterans association that provides houses to anyone with an injury from service.
I needed a house for me and my son etc and applied. I went for an interview with them and was more than up front about everything. Said i do have a permanent injury but was never deployed or anything like that and that it was from an injury at ITC.
Now they've done offered me a house and it's lovely. I've signed the lease But I feel really guilty taking it for obvious reasons.
My question is guys, in my situation would you say I'm entitled to this veterans house , or should I give them the keys back?
Everyone I talk to says they wouldn't have given me it if I wasn't entitled. (I haven't moved in yet) but I want people's advice who aren't civvies
Thanks for taking the time
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