Category Archives: From the footlocker

Footlocker Redux

Posted on January 5, 2012 by asknod

I guess it’s never too late to burn your draft card-assuming you still have one. I found this at the bottom of the box under the General Discharge (under honorable conditions). My guess is they don’t issue these anymore. I … Continue reading →

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From the Footlocker–Divorce Reception

Posted on December 31, 2011 by asknod

While you are warming your feet in front of a fire somewhere tonight, listening to the crackle of the wood, have a laugh on this. I have told you how I have an irrepressible humor about all things sacred. Here … Continue reading →

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NEXUS LETTERS AND JETGUNS

Posted on December 30, 2011 by asknod

Nexus letters. Perhaps the single most important item in your claim is a piece of paper with magic words on it. What’s frightening is that almost no one files with it in hand. VSOs seem oblivious to the requirement which … Continue reading →

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CAVC–HORBOL v SHINSEKI– Medical Opinions from Fortune Cookies

Posted on December 25, 2011 by asknod

Veteran Steve A. Horbol served from 1972 to 1975. He was service connected for HCV before he arrived here. He’s trying to connect the dots between sleep apnea and his hep. I commend him for trying. I think it would … Continue reading →

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FED.CIR.–Purple Heart v. VASEC (2009)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by asknod

Last year I did an interesting writeup about Macklem v. Shinseki (Leroy Macklem, come on down!). What I didn’t do was give a complete rationale for why the CAVC ruled the way it did. I simply mentioned the rescission on appeal of … Continue reading →

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18 SUICIDES PER DAY

Posted on December 1, 2011 by asknod

The Senate woke up yesterday and got pissed. Sen. Patty “tennis shoes” Murray, our staunch defender of all things Vet (when it is politically advantageous), just discovered that 18 of our elite club decide to check out of the hotel … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Brain Disfunction

Posted on October 30, 2011 by asknod

Members write me occasionally and during the course of their epistle, they always point out the increasing deterioration of their mental acuity. This happens to all of us as the HCV disease progresses. Others point out the Interferon therapy seems … Continue reading →

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FROM THE FOOTLOCKER

Posted on October 15, 2011 by asknod

Always in search of oldies that may help Vets accomplish a claim, I constantly run across weird things I saved from SEA and old flight maps. The ones we had were leftovers from when the French controlled the Indochinese peninsula (Laos, … Continue reading →

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To Afghan Vets–CYA

Posted on October 2, 2011 by asknod

In July of 1970, three months after I arrived in SEA, somebody figured out I spoke French. As we were busy ignoring the border between RVN and Cambodia, they needed interpreters to communicate with the Cambodian AF pilots to direct … Continue reading →

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