Category Archives: VA claims

What Agent Orange related service connected Fournier’s Gangrene did to me, more than fifty years after my last exposure.

Me, sitting at the Rhyne Main Airport in Frankfurt Germany in 1970, awaiting my plane that would take me back to the world. In July 2020, I reported to the VA emergency room. Iwas only given a 4% chance to … Continue reading

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Old Agent Orange don’t give up, but you an’t getting a hold on me!

Ok John, long read, but here is the skinny on the Fournier’s Gangrene and Agent Orange exposure that occured on a daily basis from 1967-1969, and probably more than you care to know, and more than I have ever admitted … Continue reading

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Why even bother to file a hypretention claim under the Toxic exposures Pact Act?

Considering that I have four 100% individual P&T awards that are all static in nature, and all are more than ten years old, along with a a box car full of lesser ratings, also considering that my final rating is … Continue reading

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VBA and VHA, are like apples and oranges

Seriously, a legacy participant in the CPAFC caregiver program is a veteran who was admitted into the caregiver program on or before October 1, 2020. Anyone admitted after October 1, 2020 is not considered legacy.  The appeal process is much … Continue reading

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What’s happening with the VA CPAFC caregiver program? (click below picture to read)

I appealed six times. I wrote to the President of the USA, the Vice President, and the Secretary of the DVA. I wrote my congressional representives and I wrote my Senators. I wrote to the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. I called … Continue reading

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First PCAFC VA Caregivers case won at the BVA!

By far, I am not the expert. However, after going through the initial application process, including the exams and interviews for the PCAFC caregiver’s program, not once but twice, and after six Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) appeals in the last … Continue reading

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VA’s caregiver program, (PCAFC)

Due to the passage of the Mission act, us older veterans of the Vietnam era are no longer fenced out of the benefits under the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers. After a ten year wait, application for the … Continue reading

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Old Agent Orange tried again!

An uphill seventeen year VA battle. Continue reading

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VA nexus letter guide that I wrote awhile back. It has been copied/used 16,000 times

UNITED STATES VETERANS ALLIANCE HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED ANYTIME, ANYWHERE To Print Copy and paste into your web browser.  Print the 2 pages (Nexus explanation & example Nexus)  Thanks! There are certain important things in this world that we only … Continue reading

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VA the redneck way

Any  disability claim that is filed with the VA must be supported by evidence in order to be be granted. There is no guesswork or luck involved, it is black and white. Three elements must be satisfied in order to obtain a … Continue reading

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