Jon Runyan: “When the VA fails to provide this assistance, many veterans experience extreme financial hardship.”

Continued claims of 'misunderstanding' are simply not believable--even if they were, it would show such a level of gross incompetence that disciplinary action would be necessary.

You don't want to rob Peter to pay Paul, or fix one problem by creating another.

There is no doubt about it, if there was not a veteran, there would not be a VA.

I thank the gentleman for his comments on that. And I will just tell the committee that I have had many conversations with the Air Force about this exact issue, and to be able to take a capability away from what we can do in our global…