I did my last 3 in Japan, so non-deployable, and it was 05-08, they didn’t even know what a TBI was yet. Most of my issues are mostly musculoskeletal, and the MEB came down to the AF orthopedist saying “if someone was shooting at you, could you run for your life?” I replied “sure, I would be laid up for a week following, but I’d be alive.“. So he gave me a breathe at own pace and distance profile and sent me back into my sham desk job to finish out my last 1.5yrs.
My local VA also has one of the TBI/poly-trauma units and all treatment them to primary care I’ve received has been amazing. Only a few hiccups that were quickly resolved.
I hear vets all the time complaining about the VA, even while they are at the VA, and I just shake my head. Admittedly it’s either the Vietnam era crusty dudes with lots of silly pins in their hat, or the post 9/11 folks that don’t get any care from to VA just echoing the BS that someone told them to think.