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Another fine Navy photo

What an awesome photo to enjoy this chilly weekend.  The image was taken on New Year’s Eve (2011) on the aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed in the Pacific.  This visual post is intended to express our collective solidarity with the … Continue reading

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BVA–SECOND REMAND

FROM THE HAVE-A-TAMPA FORT FUMBLE IN FLORIDA Nothing like justice steeped in the teapot of time. This, from Pete Vet’s 2005 denial, is a continuing example of an ongoing crime. Read through it and you will see the fingerprints of … Continue reading

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ASKNOD BOOK ON YOUTUBE

Gez, I paid for this almost a year ago and they finally got it right. At first the soldier was saluting with his left arm. It took six months to fix that. Enjoy. Leave comments to help others if you got anything … Continue reading

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BVA–§1151 FOR INTERFERON TREATMENT

FROM THE WE DON’T SMOKE POT IN MUSKOGEE VARO (YET). The Vet went into this one with eyes wide shut. Any attack on VA via an §1151 is going to be right up there with CUE. VA will have lawyers … Continue reading

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BVA–CIRRHOSIS DUE TO ACETAMINOPHEN

Trust the VA, of all agencies, to come up with the proposition that eating Tylenol is perfectly okay if you have a liver disease. The recipe for success lies no further away than the closest VAMC next door to a University with … Continue reading

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BVA–HBV DUE TO COMBAT BLOOD EXPOSURE

I love to read these. VA, in its haste to deny the Vet, sometimes forgets to read it’s own rules and regulations. They publish untold volumes of risk factor questionnaires but when it comes time to apply those assumptions, the VA examiner … Continue reading

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BVA–WHY WE ALWAYS ADVOCATE APPEALING

Here’s a classic that looked like it was heading for the willful misconduct waterfalls. Lo and behold, a true example of a “Benefit of the Doubt ” dance ensued and the Vet wins. I will note that this often happens when a … Continue reading

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19,500 Vets die waiting on VA benefits…By the numbers.

“Delay, Deny, Wait till the Veteran dies” is not just a VA slogan any more.    The number of Veterans who die waiting on VA to process their benefit application has tripled, according to this San Francisco Chronicle article.   It … Continue reading

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THE PERFECT STORM–AGAIN

Squidster sent me this disturbing article tonight. It brings back so many memories of friends who decided they couldn’t hack it back in the 70s and punched out. Sadly, we have the perfect storm once again brewing in Iraqistan. Soldiers … Continue reading

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Where did your VSO come from?

Most VSO’s are chartered by Congress.  (You should know you are in trouble if it has anything to do with congress.  I am still smarting from the fiscal cliff, and not sure we have not fallen off it yet) According … Continue reading

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