Tag Archives: Service Connection

UNEMPLOYMENT = STDs

Member Mark sends us this daisy. The meat is towards the bottom. After HPV, in order of magnitude, according to the study, new STIs in the U.S. in 2008 included 2,860,000 new Chlamydia infections; 1,090,000 new Trichomoniasis infections; 820,000 new … Continue reading →

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CAVC–SHEPARD V. SHINSEKI–UNDERSTANDING 3.156(C) FOR FUN AND PROFIT

When looking for good cases to read these days, one looks for the word reversal.Even then it isn’t always the shiny nugget in the bottom of the pan. In the absence of the dreaded ” vacated and remanded for reasons … Continue reading →

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STARDUST KISS AND TELL

So, for all you lucky listeners, you now know who’s behind the curtain. Please, I beg of you, do not use my name here. There will be a time and a place for my coming out party but now is … Continue reading →

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BVA–ANOTHER TIM POE COMES TO LIGHT

FROM THE JOHN WAYNE  MEMORIAL VARO IN LA This is becoming distressingly familiar as Vets grow old and die. The spouse, based on what the Vet has told her, decides to file for the panoply of Agent Orange presumptives and … Continue reading →

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BVA– NO HCV IN SERVICE/ GONORRHEA? YOU DIDN’T ASK US TO LOOK AT IT

Brilliant work on the AMLeg’s part. Here  Johnny Rebel files for hep and claims he had it in service. The records are blank. He also filed for “infertility”  due to a case of the clap in Korea. AMLEG fails to … Continue reading →

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Dream on

After reading about the sorry performance of the ILP, I can’t help but be skeptical about the lofty goals in VA pamphlet 26-13: Title:  Handbook for Design: Specially Adapted Housing for Wheelchair Users More info:  Part A and Part B. Maybe the VA … Continue reading →

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NEW VETERANS POLL ON VBMS

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FED. CIR– NOVA v. SHINSEKI–THE FEDS ARE FED UP

Remember the good old days when there was no review  The BVA could simply speak and you would listen. That was the end of it and your options as well. After creation of the COVA, VASECs pretended nothing had changed and … Continue reading →

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BVA–VA “INSERTS” NEXUS INTO DBQ

From the David Koresh Memorial VARO in Whacko Yessirree, Bob. You heard it here. When the very first DBQ was put out for use in late 2011, I warned that it had no signature block for a nexus. In no … Continue reading →

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BVA–HAV IN 1973, NOT HBV OR HCV

Here’s one of those brilliant medical A=C, B=C therefore A≠D. Huh? You can follow the tortured logic of a Hepatitis Australian Antigens Test in 1973 being positive. Simple. He had HBV in service documented by being HAA positive. He claims … Continue reading →

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