God, I love these decisions. The VARO in New Orleans was in such a hurry to shoot this Vet down that they stepped on their necktie and did a face plant. The BVA was so disgusted that they took the time to point out why the VARO screwed up and ALSO awarded the Vet the SC for Hep. Sweet. Too bad VA isn’t this stupid all the time or we’d have a higher success rate. Read the language in 38 CFR 3.301 closely. One of you Vets out there might be able to take advantage of the way its worded. So many think that just because they stuck a needle in the arm once and admitted it, they are sunk on the willful misconduct. Not so! Continue, gentle reader…

http://www.va.gov/vetapp09/Files1/0902697.txt

And they all lived happily ever after. See, VA is obnoxious as hell, but if you poke and dig, ofttimes you will find little nuggets of information that you never expected to find in the King Victor version of the VA Bible.