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2ND QUARTER BVA DECISIONS JUST RELEASED

Fresh off the grill- new decisions are posted on the BVA site. To view them, go here. http://www.index.va.gov/search/va/bva_search.jsp?QT=Hepatitis+C&SQ=vetapp13&RPP=10&LC=891&ET=&UA=Search There are 184 now listed. That represents 101 new decisions on top of the original 83.

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BVA– MEET JOE BLACK

Here’s a Vet from my home RO who is going to be getting a nasty letter in the mail soon. VA is going to inform him that he is no longer entitled to the presumption of Agent Orange or any … Continue reading

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NOD v. SHINSEKI–VA CAVES IN ?

This just in. After reading their cards and weeping, VASEC has just acknowledged they are holding what appears to be a compromised or losing hand. Oddly enough, it only took them 5 years to ascertain this (2008). I guess someone sat down … Continue reading

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C-123s AND AGENT ORANGE PHASE II

I received this in the pipeline from the $1,23 crowd.  I refer to the second generation of Air Force Nasty Guard and Irregulars who were handed the old RANCH HAND C-123 Providers after the war. The list doesn’t stop there. … Continue reading

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Agent Orange (AO) Fast Track Claims Processing System

FYI:  You can now to apply online for disability benefits for eight conditions if you served in the Republic of Vietnam or in-land waterways between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975 (The other AO exposure locations aren’t mentioned but … Continue reading

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THE LITTLE YELLOW BOOK

Remember your shot record book? That yellow compendium of all the inoculations and TB tine tests you had. The indignity and pain from the dreaded jetguns recorded and immortalized for posterity is there in the book. Some of you may … Continue reading

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AO INFORMATION ON STATESIDE STORAGE LOCATIONS

Here’s a new one to pass on from Lawdog Bob. We lose sight sometimes of where Agent Roundup was and who got hosed. Presumptive is beginning to leak under the rug and pop up in other places. When you follow … Continue reading

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 80,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading

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CANOE CLUB DENIED PRESUMPTIVE AO COVERAGE

Isn’t it amazing how a “tactical herbicide” (Agent Orange, Blue, Pink, White, Green, Purple) can miraculously fall to the ground at the water’s edge and not enter the Gulf of Tonkin? Or in the alternative, that it can run off during the … Continue reading

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BVA–YEAH.IT’S NEW BUT IS IT MATERIAL?

Here’s something I can’t seem to enunciate enough to Vets. I have an email from Ralph who is condemned to the St. Pete’s RO and Funhouse of Mirrors. He’s in his fourth year of combat with the VA (second reopening) … Continue reading

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