WANTED: NATIONAL SERVICE OFFICERS

PROOF OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION REQUIRED

I’ve read a lot of these but this one is unique. The vet was out of the service and decided to go get his brother’s body in Vietnam and bring it home. Therefore he was exposed to AO and gets the presumptive? After service? Oh, and he got PTSD while he was there, too. You can see that happening. I can. War is messy-even after you get out. You should be remunerated for it, too.

Let’s set aside the Graves and Registration MOS and just say for shits and grins that this guy did this the way his wife says he did. How did he get in-country? Who gave him a passport to wander around in a free-fire zone? Was this a financial thing? Was the Army broke from sequestration that month and ask him to “come and get him before we throw him out”?

I am not callous nor am I insensitive to the wife’s grief. I am merely voicing incredulousness at the thought of a man separated from service being allowed to hop a flight to Tan Son Nhut and pick up his brother at the take out window. As for why he’d be entitled to the PTSD, that is an even bigger mystery.

The Veteran’s sister-in-law also wrote a letter in November 2010 suggesting that based on her work volunteering at the Vet Center she was of the opinion Veteran had PTSD. 

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Here, there is no specific in-service stressor reported by the appellant. Rather, the appellant repeatedly asserts that the Veteran recovering his brother’s body was the stressor that caused him to develop PTSD. However, this event occurred after the Veteran had been discharged from service and would not therefore support the grant of service connection.

This is a scream. Two women with no medical degree opining.

Once again I see the DAV as the VSO who is repping this gal. Do they employ differently abled people there or is it a prerequisite for employment that you have an IQ below 70? Who, exactly, is in charge of training the DAV’s National Service Officers in Montgomery, Alabama?  Why did they waste their time appealing this? Did they legalize marijuana in Alabama, too? Lottsa queshuns and no answers. Once again, the blind leading the deaf.