Tag Archives: Gulf War PTSD Claims

BVA– PTSD EQUALS HEPATITIS C

We are finally getting traction on this after twenty years of filing it under willful misconduct. Considering VA takes it upon themselves to make this determination, legally they are precluded from it. A UCMJ court or nonjudicial punishment while you … Continue reading

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PTSD–TEACHING TO THE TEST

I received an interesting email yesterday (Monday) from a fellow (Hank R.) who feels we (Veterans advocates) are in some way “coaching” our brethren  on how to best answer the DBQs (Disability Benefits Questionnaires)and VA psychiatrists/Doctors. The implicit suggestion was that … Continue reading

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VA FILINGS–MURPHY’S NEW LAW

We are starting to see a new metric develop with staggering implications. For over thirty years, around the time of the VJRA of 1988, there has been a gradual increase in claims adjudication times that cannot be excused due to … Continue reading

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VA Office of Research and Development (ORD)

The VA conducts research, some of which is later published in scholarly journals; some which remains unpublished.   The ORD also has information on research in the publishing pipeline that the public doesn’t have access to because it’s on a private … Continue reading

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INSPIRATIONAL VETERANS MOMENTS

Sent to me by Trooper Tombo of the Oooh-rah platoon. Great stuff. But then everything Tombo sends us is great stuff.                 This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace, now home to … Continue reading

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NBC’S BRIAN WILLIAMS–STOLEN VALOR

In what never ceases to amaze, yet another glitterati of the Progressive persuasion steps on his necktie. I find it incongruous to even conceive of trying to hoodwink the public into believing something so easily disproved. The 159th Dragonmasters on that … Continue reading

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LZ CORK–BOB LOCKETT’S LP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LZ.

LZ Cork was a zit on Charlie’s ass from the moment they built it in early fall 1968. It’s artillery covered a wide swath of land from it’s high perch. The Viet Cong began an eradication plan in earnest when … Continue reading

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ILP–MR. BOYD, WON’T YOU GRANT ME MY I-L-P

I must make amends to Janis when (and if) I ever get to Heaven. As some know, a big part of my Writ is to provoke what the Veterans Rehabilitation and Education arm of VA has been avoiding for three and a half … Continue reading

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FACEPLACE–DECEMBER DETRITUS

I apologize for allowing all this valuable social media to crop up on my desktop but the Writ of Extraordinary pissed offness set me back chronologically. Therefore, subscribing to the better-late-than-never school of thought, I immediately disgorge the backlog of … Continue reading

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VIETNAM: WHAT WENT WRONG IN SIX MINUTES

America is becoming more and more enamoured of it’s former warriors than ever. Each day reveals a new commission, a new museum showing or another commemorative gun from one of those outfits that advertises in American Rifleman. This month they’re … Continue reading

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