Tag Archives: Helping Veterans

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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BVA– SERVICE CONNECTION FOR INTERFERON INJURIES

Here’s a handy one to have in your notebook. For all of you who got clobbered by bug juice, here’s the definitive “How I did it” from Don Diego of San Diego. The Don has had a slight loss of … Continue reading →

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BVA–JETGUN DECLARED THE SMOKING GUN IN ROANOKE, VA. CASE

Well, 2012 may just be a banner year for jetguns wins, Ladies and Gentlemen Vets. Read here where the Vet, repped by the venerable American Red Cross, wins big in the benefit of the doubt. He has NO risks other than … Continue reading →

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BVA– JETGUN WIN WITH NO NEXUS

This one is clean as a whistle. The Veterans Law Judge threw out the biased VA examiner’s  tripe about how it was due to a life of drug abuse after service as being “picky”. This one defies logic. I’ve never seen … Continue reading →

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IRIS Email response: We need more Veterans working at the VA

The VA loves to tout how they “hire Veterans”.  I wonder if the manager of IRIS, below is a Vet: Discussion Thread  Response via Email Via Email (Department of Veterans Affairs) (Date) 11:38 AM Dear Mr.Joe Average Vet:This is in … Continue reading →

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