This is the only win I’ve ever seen on Chloracne. It, like PCT and subacute peripheral neuropathy are those rare items you hear about like extraschedular ratings. You know they exist on paper in 3.309(e) but have never actually met a walking, talking rated Vet. I’ve never met another Vet rated for PCT although I’ve read a lot of decisions on it. The problem is the documentation in the records. Since chloracne presented as a rash, extensive blackheads and/or pimples, it was impossible to diagnose in the 70s. It was frequently classified as acne vulgaris and pooh-poohed as nothing. I have residual sebaceous cysts behind my ears that started over there but never went to sick call for a zit.
This Vet is going to get the big banana when the claim is rated at the Nashville RO. I’m guessing 10% max and the stronger possibility of a 0% goose egg after the C&P show.
I always find it humorous to see the explanation for subacute neuropathy that manifests and then goes away after several years. Why claim it? You had to come down with it within a year of leaving (last call was May 5th, 1976) and it had to resolve within two years to be considered subacute. Ergo no disease to claim after May 5th, 1978. Does that clear things up?
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Veterans Claims Help 
After checking out your site I need to leave a message to say my husband has won part of his case. He has got Chloracne as 0% service connected. He is still trying to get a disability rating. I also found another case in Massachusetts that is service connected for chloracne. Byrdie49893@yahoo.com
I also put this Fort McClellan AO claim together for a win and Fort Mac is not even on the list of post and bases inside Conus where AO is conceded by the DoD or Alvin LYoung.
At this time I am working on a DIC Thiland claim, I am confident for a win in this one too.
The Fort McClellan link
VA AO Decision Favorable to Ft McClellan Vet (Citation #1108696)
This is my 2009 BVA decision, it was the first AO win in CONUS. Chloracne-0%, Diabetes -20%, heart disease 100%, PN/R-upper 50%, PN/L upper 40%, PN/R-lower 40%, PN/ L lower 40%, Remanded isues were won. 100% P&T with SMC (s) award and one (k) award
http://www.va.gov/vetapp/wraper_bva.asp?file=/vetapp09/Files5/0941553.txt
See my profile usva101.org and then click on member profiles.
Sweet. I wasn’t far off on what I figured they might give you for the Chloracne. Did they give you the PN for the diabetes or AO? The miracle here is you didn’t have to trundle up to Indiana Ave.NW to get the win. Congratulations and thank you for coming here to tell us. Winning at this game is an art form and you, sir, appear to be good at it. That or the AmLeg rep. was a good one.
Note, the BVA decision that you commented on , posted by you on april 13 is from the Nashville Tn. RO, but it is not my decision it is someone elses. That veteran was boots on the ground Vietnam and used the presumptive. I filed and won a direct exposure claim. I also chose the direct exposure route in the Fort Mac claim and the DIC U-Tapao, Thailand claim. I don’t think that the American Legion or any other service orginization is capable of a CONUS win, they never have won one. Those orginizations don’t have the time to support a claim of that nature, it is just too time consuiming and takes a lot of legwork on the part of the veteran, five years at hard labor in my own claim. Note that all three of these decisions originated in the Nashville RO.
Sorry for the confusion. I just saw the Nashville VARO and foolishly assumed they were one and the same. The phraseology was a little confusing. Nevertheless, I see you filed yours through the AmLeg VSO. Was that a mere formality or did you end up carrying the water yourself after you got started?
The claim was filed as Chloracne and diabetes as due to AO exposure. The heart disease was claimed as a residual of the diabetes and so was the PN. At the time that I filed, heart disease was not yet recognized as due to AO. The only way, at that time, to win the heart disease and pn was to file it under diabetes.
I chose the American Legion as my POA but they did not believe in the claim and did nothing other than try to discourage me. I did use an AL VSO to present the claim at the BVA hearing. No one should represent themselves at a hearing because you tend to get emotional and the ALJ can see that.
to see more of my struggle just type into a google search
james m. cripps agent orange
Maybe he’ll get something for chloracne as a reward for brevity since the raters daily SLAVE over 400 page claims in miserable cubicles.