Disconnect Between DoD and VA for Transitioning Veterans

Worst Case Scenario Demonstrates Disconnect Between DoD and VA for Transitioning Veterans 03/17/2010. According to Staff Sgt Sean Johnson’s physicians his sight could not have been saved, even if his traumatic brain injury was discovered sooner. The damage from the mortar attack that happened on March 25, 2006 had been done and, even though much of it went unnoticed at the time, was irreversible. However, Johnson imagines that his experiences after returning home would have been unimaginably less frustrating had the full extent of his injuries been diagnosed in a timely manner—something that was impeded by a lack of partnership and communication between VA and DoD. U.S. Medicine