Most of us have seen the show “Mythbusters”, where two rather skilled mechanics perform some stunts to decide if a particular situation, often in movie stunts, were “real” or fake.

Well, Im not taking over their show, but there are a few myths running around about the vA that are not true.  I will look at one of these myths today.  Maybe, some more later.  Keep reading Ask nod to find out.

The vA often cites “the number of troops in two wars” as their excuse for the backlog, when Veterans advocates complain about the growing backlog of health care and compensation benefits at the Va.      Myth Busted.  There were more troops in Vietnam than in IRAQ and Afghanastan together.   Way more.

Here are the numbers:

Iraq and Afghanastan 161,000 source:  see page 6: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40682.pdf

Vietnam:  (1968) 536,100   source:   http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwatl.htm

So, as you can see its “myth busted”.   We had more than 3 times as many troops in Vietnam than in the current wars and Im not buying the Va’s “blame the Veteran” excuses.