Tag Archives: Helping Veterans

NPRS–1 POTATO, 2 POTATO, 3 POTATO, 4…

I was talking with the legal member of the Asknod family and we discussed the problems with getting useful documents from St. Louis. Then we discussed the matter of getting anything, useful or otherwise from them. Ladies and Gentlemen, take your protein … Continue reading

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2009 VA flu video

A 2009 VA Channel video on Youtube (1-minute) shows Secretary Erik Shinseki, and other VA employees, getting flu vaccinations.  They’re doing it the only safe way––one needle, one syringe, only one time.  The drug delivery method used in this example of … Continue reading

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BVA–ST. PETE VETS GET NO RESPECT

I leave you with this one tonight. Vet goes to Subic Bay. Being typical Navy, he cavorts with prostitutes and gets tattoos. Vet has HCV  flu-type symptoms several times in Subic Bay after cavorting exercises. Vet comes down with HCV … Continue reading

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BVA– BUM’S RUSH

How many times are we told we do not have the medical expertise to opine on the etiology of where our disease came from or what particular risk was the culprit? Try this one on for size. Vet partied hearty … Continue reading

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Secret Veterans’ Benefits Academy

I really had to hunt for any information about this academy but there is was, in small print, mis-named, on the Baltimore VARO webpage. The Baltimore Regional Office is co-located with the Eastern Area Human Resource Center (HRC) and the … Continue reading

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BVA–NO TEST FOR HCV IN 72=SPECULATION

I couldn’t think how to communicate this decision logic in 30 words or less hence the speculation header. Try this logic on for size. First, the vA examiner reads the file and concluded the Vet never had hep in service. Someone … Continue reading

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BVA– DIRTY JETGUNS = HCV

This isn’t a snowball rolling downhill yet but it certainly is a banner year for HCVets claiming jetguns. What’s unique about this is that several VA examiners is saying it. The Vet has just dragged in not one but two good nexus … Continue reading

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BVA– CUE BY ST. PETE”S RO (4th TIME)

You get that warm, fuzzy, content feeling about your Regional Office when they keep committing CUE and the Board keeps remanding it via the 59th RO (AMC or Appeals Management Center). Its now 2012 and they’ve been playing pingpong with it since … Continue reading

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BVA– STDS = 98% WILLFUL MISCONDUCT

This is pathetic. When they did it to WGM down in Houston, I thought of it as an aberration-stupid but otherwise just a bad hair day for the rater. What we all forget is that the big cheese DRO had to … Continue reading

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BVA–ASKNOD GOES TO DC AND LOSES!

Yep. Here I am. I thought I hit this one out of the park.  What was I thinking? Apparently they do not allow new evidence to be submitted during the appeal. If they do then they owe me some serious … Continue reading

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