Is this how we are supporting the troops?

Are we going to support our troops only when they are useful and then kick them out to live in poverty?

"Lieutenant John Fernandez, who lost part of both legs in Iraq, knows he can no longer be a soldier, but he's not ready to leave the army.
'I personally don't think it's right to be forced out of the -- military and all of a sudden be forced to live on half of the pay that I was getting,' he says.
Ryan Kelley, who lost his left leg below the knee, makes about $20,000 a year as a staff sergeant. Once he leaves the army, he will receive about $8,000 a year in benefits. "