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If im filing a (fully developed claim FDC) do I still need to download my VA medical documents and submit along with my claim or will the raters get that on their own since its through VA as well?

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Veterans from the Vietnam Era faced a hostile public and employment discrimination against veterans. If any of us had waited for help from the VA or even the American Legion or VFW, we'd still be waiting.

You’re not doing it for us, the disrespect we receive from VA healthcare makes it very clear. Y’all are just looking after your own hides. Stop lying to us, we are not stupid.

Depend on VA for anything yeah right....14 turndowns for PTSD locked down at least 6 times had the SSP and FBI at my home with the County Sheriff's.... diagnosed by the best VA Hospital psychiatrist.. then on top of that have SLE Lupus and don't even get any care for any of it ...no use for VA A at all now... fixing to turn 65 and it's been only one time this year on video chat cause I don't know what is wrong with me and still don't... evidently my service didn't count for nothing but I'm service connected for scars..... stupid isn't it .. scars but it didn't do anything else like in my mind.. well after the 14 turndown with the idiots working at the VA Hospital when you sign up for VA Disability.... i didn't know what she wanted. Ask me...I said PTSD and that was it she said I'm done .. been thru all the PTSD and Maps classes . Every time I get a doctor who was help he retires... it's ridiculous.. so go for nothing now .. use to get meds but I got some really pathetic doctors and I'd even went as far as to write the Inspector Generals Office.. for abuse and neglect.... heard nothing.. the then I get online and start ready about the hospital and doctors...how some veterans appointment had been changed to make the veteran to miss appointments or just changed for to suit the hospital or doctors and how many veterans were dying cause of it.... it was bad all over the country... Alaska was the best... then... but I was shocked about what I had learned....VAA isn't gonna do anything to help you if you don't know how to do the appeals and with no help I got all the way to the DRO VIA Video chat but I never received my letter for the hearing till the day of my hearing was past..i think the VA man in my county did it on purpose..... if you believe a Veteran has the benefits he supposed get but not all of them .. I regret service now to my country and don't want the cursed Flag over my coffin... bad enough tbt cursed for my service but I'll not be cursed by the Flag over me...it doesn't mean what it did when I ETS out of the Army..... but to me I have been betrayed by the very people.... my countrymen...... I live a lonely isolated life because of it now with no freinds and no relatives close by.... but I have been dead to everyone so long and now with the Pandemic... isolation is about the same... I don't go nowhere now didn't before cause this country isn't beautiful in my eyes no longer. .VA wouldn't help me with my teeth after the partials they made caused my teeth to rot at the gums.. that was 6 years ago.. I pulled most of them but my upper front which stay infected off and on .... but overall VA Hospital overall let my health deteriorate .... I don't care anymore I'm so tired of life alone ... I'm not gonna take the shot for any of the Virus . Delta or what ever....be my luck it won't even bother me at all and I have to live longer in the miserable world that is so full of hate and misery... .no I think when this started it's for the public eyes not the Veterans.... sure never is nothing to help me..... ain't I the lucky one.... really sux.. but I don't care.... what can do when your old and neglected..... die is about all .

If you are 100% P&T, how can you add a condition for service connection that needs to be added? I have been repeatedly told it’s a moot point because I am already 100%. The issue is not adding “more percentage” but adding a condition that is service connected I could die from. If I died from a condition not listed, my spouse would mot be entitled to the DIC payments after my death. I am registered in the burn pit but it is not listed, as well as other documented conditions. I want to protect my spouse also. What can be done?

Department of Veteran Affairs employees are thieves and liars... Im owed over $110,000 in disability benefits... Philadelphia regional office corruption is protected by the OIG ... #fact

I spent a month at K2 and many of my co-workers were there longer and are having long term health issues. Some have died and some are currently battling cancer. What are you doing to see that these folks get proper treatment? Many have been denied service connections to their ailments, but it is widely documented that that place was a cesspool of chemical and radiological contamination.

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Uniform military guardianship act 332 of 1937 Mi probate Court refuses to if a veteran has any funds from the VA only the VA can put them in that he's my mother had the funds. In the same law no Guardian at Litem shall be appointed but my mother's had one since 2014 it's now 2021. My mother's been isolated drugs lied about in court 6 x 6 s believe she's good no mental health problems competent the judge ignores these tests. Unless they're removed from their position nothing's ever going to stop they refused to file any laws in Michigan and probably across the country save our vets my mom's armories Korean war-era veteran

I will definitely take advantage of the VRRAP benefits.

thats my uncle

Dr. Lawrence Ph.D. is Great! Ooorahh Lawrence!!! Semper Fi Doc, Semper Fi.

Can a widow apply fir a VA loan if husband was in the Navy but it wasn’t during active duty. 1954-57? Thank you

I have been trying to get my VA records for several years an they will only send partial records excluding the records I need for my claims. I have made calls and written letters with no help. The reason I know that the exist is because I worked for the VA Hospital system and read all of them.

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What a great quarter for VBA...amazing progress towards their goal to have their #BestYearEver.

Important update on C&P exams. To learn more, click here: www.va.gov/disability/va-claim-exam/

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#DYK?: VBA’s team is over 25K strong. 56% Veteran of which of Veterans. We delivered $31B in benefits in Quarter 2 of Fiscal Year 2020.

Joining Under Secretary Lawrence during the webcast are: - Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Margarita Devlin will be talking about our Solid Start program: www.benefits.va.gov/transition/solid-start.asp - Executive Director, Compensation Service, Beth Murphy will discuss important changes to C&P Exams as well as providing an update on Blue Water Navy: benefits.va.gov/benefits/blue-water-navy.asp - Executive Director, Education Service, Charmain Bogue will present vital information regarding our GI Bill program: www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/ - Senior Advisor for Fiscal Stewardship, Joe Gurney will present information on our new, Veterans Benefits Banking Program: benefits.va.gov/benefits/banking.asp?VBBP&

Welcome to the Q2: Performance & Results Webcast. Under Secretary for Benefits, Dr. Paul R. Lawrence will lead you through all 8 business lines and explain how VBA is working through the COVID response and is still on track to having our: #BestYearEver, serving Veterans. Please comment with any questions you may have. We’re going to post FAQs, early next week.

If a veteran has one day remaining in the 9-11 GI Bill program, in the middle of a Master degree program, not scheduled to finish until May of 2021, will the VA stop paying or can the veteran qualify for Voc Rehab to complete the degree?

If you qualified for the Montgomery G.I. Bill and elected the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill instead what happens after the Post 9/11 is used completely? What are options of getting the money paid into the Montgomery or extending education benefits due to the money that was paid into the Montgomery?

When is the VA finally going to update the ratings schedule as required by 38 USC §1155? Also, does the VA want to join the rest of the world in becoming members of the 21st century? There is no justification whatsoever that a veteran needs to submit a hard copy request to access their claims file and wait approximately 8 months to gain access to that information while VSOs are able to gain access to claims files in a matter of days.

For some reason I could only hear her in the left earbud :( at first it was like 5m of just music.

Well, let me tell you as a disabled veteran who utilized some ch33 and then moving on to ch31. Vocational Rehabilitation was a blessing and an absolute nightmare. The VR&E have way too much power. Specifically, I had a setback in one of my service-connected disabilities and how that hindered the progress of my education program. I majored in IT Infosec. My TBI hindered me from retaining the Command Line /Programming aspect of my program. Long story short - VR&E offered my a 'Change of Program'. We went through all the motions. I obtained many VA physician supporting documents. I did labor market researches, costs of a new program, duration, accreditation, etc etc. I was told my counselor that everything was set in place, I was eligible, and to finish my current program of study - then we'd move on to the Program Change. I failed many of those classes and wound up completing with 2gpa. Once I finished, my counselor scheduled a meeting with me and told me that they could not support a Change of Program. They denied me and said that I needed to complete more cognitive therapy. Afterwards, I completed months and months of cognitive therapy. I received statements from VA polytrauma (& other departments) that supported my Chamge if Program. After that, I was denied again by my VR&Ecounselorandher supervisor. They had me come to the VA regional office and gave me an ultimatum: They would write a supporting document for 100% individual unemployability (as they did not believe that I could work). Or I could continue with Employment services from VR&E. This was a contradiction. They did not have the medical education or experience to deny me for any medical reasons. That was the whole point of completing the Change of Program process (which took months by the way). Yet, they "allowed" to utilize employment services. I graduated May 2019. Since then, I was unable to maintain an IT position. I secured five different Help Desk, Tier 1 IT Analyst, and service desk positions. All of which I failed miserably. I could not retain the information of the critical aspects of these roles as I stated previously. The longest I lasted at one position was 6 days. This led to my family and I becoming homeless. I fell deepering into my depression & had suicidal ideations daily. We then got help from the VA's HUD-VASH program and The Wounded Warrior Project. My family and I have a roof over our heads. I have yet to find gainful employment. Im currently searching for employment in different career fields. This devastated my family and I. I wasted 6 years of my life and am not vocationally rehabilitated. The program of Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment has amazing intentions, but there are people working for them that do not. I won't speculate on the reasons. Just know that I had many resourses to help me along this battle. Pennsylvania State Senator Bob Casey and his team helped as far as they could, but even they told me that the VR&E laws had too much grey area to allow this to happen.

By the way your VA Ship Locator tool failed to show the following: USS Ranger CVA-61 24 Dec 1969 2000 15 55.7N 108 48.5E 9.01nm seaward of Straight Baseline or the Demarcation Points in PL 116-23 USS Ranger CVA-61 25 Dec 1969 0800 16 48.8N 107 40.9E 0.97nm inside the Straight Baseline or the Demarcation Points in PL 116-23

If only veterans/widows realized that eligibility begins in RVN port visits out to the Straight Baseline (Demarcation Points in HR299) plus an additional 12nm further out to sea (Territorial Sea) IAW U.N. Convention and Law of the Sea of 1982 Part II, articles 2, 3, and 7 as referenced by the Federal Circuit Court in their Procopio v Wilkie decision of 29 Jan 2019. Lots of disinformation reflecting 12nm from shore, which we all know is not IAW PL 116-23.

Thank You VA Under Secretary Paul R. Lawrence PH.D. and VA Executive Director Compensation Service Beth Murphy, JD for your very professional Webcast of the VBA Performance & Results from Q1 January 30, 2020 on youtube. I am a 2 tour US Navy Vietnam Veteran aboard the USS White Plains AFS4 from September 1971 to July 1973. You mentioned the ships log books that you obtained from the National Archives (26,000 Boxes) that you had to scan and document in order to help the VA with the Blue Water Navy Act and the Veterans who will be filing claims for medical compensation of Agent Orange Exposure. If need be for the VA records of obtaining a ships whereabouts at the 3 critical times that you mentioned in your presentation just a helpful fact FYI. Each ship also had Engineering Logs that were kept by each ships Engineering Division that would also tie together the ships 24/7 Daily Engineering "GOING ON'S" as far as making Fresh Water for the ships bathing, drinking, laundry, cleaning, etc....out of the SEA WATER through the ships DESALINIZATION EVAPORATOR UNITS. Also for more proof positive evidence, I was wondering if my pictures that were taken out at sea (Blue Water Navy 12 Mile Zone) & (Feet on the Ground) could be used for a Veterans Claim if need be. Our Captain Mr. Barker, would have "SWIM CALL" for the White Plains Crew well within the 12 Mile Zone of the South China Sea. Also on a few occasions after a hard line swing of replenishing the 7th Fleet with food, Water & Supplies, as well as the US Army / Naval Bases at Da Nang & Cam Rahn Bay, we would anchor out a mile from the beaches of Cam Rahn Bay and take the ships motor whale boats into the shallows of the beach head where we would depart for the white sandy beaches and waters for some R&R. These moments in time during the Vietnam War aboard the Blue Water Ships, just might be be found in the ships log books. I have my personal photos to prove those times aboard the USS White Plains. And, I am sure many more US Navy Vietnam Veterans can provide the VA with positive proof of the same. Thank You, once again for helping those Vietnam Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange while serving their country. Sincerely & Respectfully, David W. Grohman EMFN 1971-1973 USS White Plains AFS4

Blessings from Alabama.

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Very nice video and I have found the VA to be good to deal with on my end. Gary USN 87-90

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