Daniel Gade lost his right leg in Iraq. But Gade, an assistant professor of political science at the U.S. Military Academy, does not consider himself disabled. Instead, he uses himself as an example of how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs often inaccurately assesses disability.

“I have a Ph.D. in public policy, I do Ironman triathlons, I rode my bike across the country in 2012. But according to the VA, when I leave the army, I will be 100 percent disabled, unable to work, completely disabled. That’s an illustration of the fact that this is a really broken system.”