When you are in, be sure to have EVERYTHING in your medical records annotated. It is amazing, the copious amount of BS the VA will spoon-feed you to justify why they should not pay you for legitimate injury.
Do not be "Hooah", or "OohRah" about everything and tough it out. Let the medic or the docs check you out and annotate it.
I wish I had understood this more before I went in.
I have something that has been preliminarily diagnosed as BPPV, and I know it stems from a fall off the top of a vehicle called the AMG, where I landed on the back of my neck in Iraq in full battle-rattle.
The VA is being rather dubious about it, because I was in a tactical convoy, and good golly gee, couldn't stop off at my local Iraqi branch of the VA, or major army medical facility in the middle of combat.
I am rated for other things, so I feel everyones pain.
To elaborate on Blackhawk Down; Shugart and Gordon, and their exploits, are a part of Basic Training (or were) as an example of selfless service. What a story it is.
To my brothers and sisters in uniform, my fellow vets, and those who paid the ultimate price, we will always be family.