This is a Jet gun case from start to finish. The VET has allowed the VSO to micromanage his claim to extinction. I’m willing to bet $ that the VET was encouraged to go collect evidence like he was on a scavenger hunt. He has managed to assemble articles on Jet guns. Doesn’t say but I’d guess there are some 8 1/2 x 11 glossy black and whites immortalizing some boys in boxers that says: “Don’t shoot ’til you see the whites of their eyes”. The VA, God bless them, saw fit to supply a nexus because this VET neglected to do so. He did, however, Dx his HCV as being caused by the guns. I have pointed out the folly of doing this if you are not a doctor. The VET also submitted an article that said a lot of Vietnam VETS have HCV but the article didn’t say they got HCV from Jetguns. Finally he submitted a BVA decision in which a VET was granted SC for Jet gun risk along with the nexuses provided by the 2 docs. in that case. Again, this has nothing to do with the case we are looking at here. You cannot type your name on a piece of paper, cut it out and paste it on another BVA decisions and win. Every claim is unique to the individual. This VET may have been able to win if he had gone out and collected several nexuses from legitimate doctors stating the hep was SC via the gun. We’ll never know. What we do know is that he was smart enough to APPEAL it. Now he can file MFRs and keep trying to win without going back to square 1 each time. If he does win, they will have to go back and pay from July, 2003.

http://www.va.gov/vetapp06/Files3/0610877.txt