The system has failed our VETERANS pt. 2

Together We Go

Mike Glover

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this podcast pt. 2, I sit down with the Neysa Holmes-wife of Erick Holmes. Erick selflessly served as a green beret, including 5 combat rotations to war. He suffers from diagnosed and admitted PTS and TBI. Throughout his journey he’s pleaded for help and was repeatedly denied from a broken Veteran Affairs and Justice system. We discuss this journey from a wife’s perspective and the challenges that brought her to step up and fight against the lack of process, empathy, and medical treatment available to our most vulnerable and deserving citizens-our combat veterans. Follow Neysa Holmes and check out her site to support her journey against a broken system that has abandoned her husband. Website: https://combatsupportinstitute.comFB: https://www.facebook.com/drneysaholmes/Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/555sfgwife?r=2i8dwb&utm_medium=iosNeysa Book: http://neysaholmes.com/Link to Articles on Erick:https://townlift.com/2025/07/after-more-than-a-week-in-solitary-new-plea-deal-offered-to-veteran-in-mental-health-crisis/https://www.newsbreak.com/townlift-562167/4088130506261-local-army-veteran-s-dangerous-i-80-standoff-was-foretold-and-ignored

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0:00.0	All right, so this is part two of the podcast.
0:13.0	And we do have updates.
0:16.0	There are a lot of things that are changing.
0:19.0	And there's a lot of feedback that you got from part one.
0:21.8	What's some of the feedback that you got from part one?
0:24.6	Keep up the fight, you know, because the voices, for everyone that's experienced the same thing,
0:30.0	they're not being heard.
0:31.4	And since Eric's case is just like blown up.
0:34.8	And every day, I know you see this, I try to put something on social media that
0:39.1	responds to the public, just kind of inform them. Also, I've had quite a few folks reach out to me
0:47.2	wanting the story on different levels. You know, other reporters. As a matter of fact, I had an email
0:52.7	this morning come in that it's a production
0:55.3	company. They're wanting to do like a documentary about it and how someone like Eric or yourself
1:03.8	has experienced war. And then when you come back, the system has failed them. So it's very powerful.
1:08.8	So it's a great movement. I have to thank you. Like I said,
1:11.3	you took this on and said, this is what's going on with this SF guy. It's unfair. You know,
1:17.0	I've been fighting this battle myself. And now I'm challenging a judicial system, a VA system that's
1:23.6	corrupt, et cetera. And I think the biggest thing, the biggest issue right now is that we have to change the way that the VA is working because
1:34.3	I looked at information yesterday and someone sent this to me.
1:39.3	They said, Nays said, do you know how much money is spent on PTSD for one veteran?
1:43.3	This blew my mind. Do you know that it's $1.2 million per veteran? Imagine, I want to know where that $1.2 million is going because you're not getting that treatment. My husband definitely is not getting that treatment. Is that the VA's claim? That is what they're saying. Are you? Are you? Shh. I got $20 million per PTSD. I got 20 bucks of that. Exactly. I'm laughing because I'm like, where do you get this money from? Because even if you break down 100%, what is it, 3,800, whatever it is a month, you know, that you get, you know, a benefit. I'm not sure what the number is. I get over $4,000. Well, he gets more too because he was contractor. Yeah, yeah. Labor, Department of Labor, but, um, because he broke his bag, basically. Yeah. But I mean, just the, whatever the number is. Just take that number. Times it by 12 a year. Yeah. Times it by what your average is, because I think they've got Eric checking out
2:34.6	at 62 years old. So they're banking on, he's done at 62. We don't have to pay that. Thank God,
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