And how many go out on the streets to find the homeless vets with PTSD from their combat experience?

You have to submit an application for treatment, then you are put on a waiting list for when you will be told whether or not you will receive treatment. If you are lucky enough to receive treatment, then you wait for that to be set up. Unfortunately, many of our troops commit suicide or go homeless while going through this long drawn out process.

And we are currently experiencing a suicide epidemic.

What we need are other vets involved in finding these guys and advocating for their treatment. When you are in the middle of PTSD, you may not be able to advocate for yourself. Do we have that type of program? I know of vets who volunteer to do this for other vets.

Let me take a wild guess and say Republicans will want to cut back on PTSD programs. Maybe they will quote their expert, Bill O'Reilly, who said there are NO homeless vets in America.

They love to set up quagmires for others to fight, get maimed, get killed, get PTSD - but they couldn't care less about doing what's right by our vets. The last two Republicans I knew in the federal government that understood this were Chuck Hagel and Collin Powell, both Vietnam combat veterans.

Is the voice of the Republican Party now Michelle Bachmann, who has advocated cutting back on vet benefits?

A decade into this war and they are still clueless. They continue to refuse most help from stellar programs in the private sector and programs with evidenced backed data on success.