Nicole Malachowski

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750 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 6d ago

Nicole Malachowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Truth in the Barrel with Amy McGrath · Iran's Buildup, Noem's Blankie, And The Weaponized DHS · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

And so I really, I need every American out there, especially our veterans, to get on the phone today, to get on the VA website, to file our opposition to this, because this is absolutely, it's bad for current veterans, and it is bad for those future veterans that we're going to send into harm's way.

Bad for recruitment, bad for retention.

Absolutely.

And I am one of those combat veterans.

As you know, I served my country over 20 years as a fighter pilot.

And at the end of my career, unfortunately, I came down with a pretty significant brain infection.

And that brain infection went misdiagnosed for too long by military medicine.

Long story short, I spent essentially the last two years of my career bedridden and housebound going through a medical evaluation board.

And, you know, when I read the articles this morning about what the VA was doing, I actually pulled up my Air Force Form 356, which I have in my hand here, that says 100 percent unfit for duty.

Section 12 recommendation, permanent retirement.

So my career came to an end very unceremoniously against my will and not the way I wanted it.

Do you know how long, Amy, it took for me to get VA disability compensation, to just get rated by the VA?

For the very thing I was found 100% unfit for duty for.

Take a guess.

It took me, a 20-plus year combat veteran, four years for the VA to find... And you had to probably fight every step of the way.

I fought every step of the way.

And even as tough as I like to think that I am, there were many times that I fought about giving up looking for this service-connected disability and rating.

And if not for the veteran service organizations and the military service organizations that

In my particular case, the Wounded Lawyer Project, I would not have been able to see that through to the end.

So for people who act like this is an easy process or no big deal, they need to absolutely be rethinking that.

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