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Victor Ray

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  1. On 11/16/2020 at 10:00 PM, Recondo@53 said:

    Hi, I am currently on appeal for increase rating in excess of 50% PTSD (rated as Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder) and the case was remanded by BVA back to the RO. The initial PTSD C&P was done in 2014. The original rating was not rated as PTSD, but Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder. A new exam was requested and completed October of 2020 and I was awarded 100% PTSD. I contested the rating as VA denied a rating of excess of 50% prior to September 2020. The RO stated the following, "The evidence does not support a change in the prior decision. Therefore, entitlement to an evaluation in excess of 50 percent prior to September 2020 for post-traumatic stress disorder (previously rated as specified trauma and stressor related disorder) is denied. The rating decision noted that the examiner diagnosed me with PTSD and it was a correction to my prior examination. Here is where it gets odd. After I got the denial of excess of 50%, I started scrolling through my C-File. Well, I noticed on the initial C&P for claimed PTSD, the C&P examiner missed 2 criterion for  DSM-V. My understanding is that I am entitled to a complete exam and the medical opinion is based on the C&P, which if was incomplete that would warrant an incomplete medical opinion. Since the appeal up to date, my historical evidence and symptomology and social and occupational impairment has aligned to 70-100%. It is clear as day in my C-file. The mistakes on the exam were missed by VSO, attorney and BVA.

    My question is what is my best course of action for this? Thank you kindly!

    Recondo@53.

    Do you really believe that the VSO, the Attorney, and the BVA with its dozens of attorneys, “ all missed it?”. Well I don’t. I do believe they all work together, and every one of them screwed you over. They gave you a fraction of what you deserved figuring you will take what they gave you, or have to go through tons of irritating events and finally give up anyway in the end.

    Time and everything else is on their side, and you cannot trust anyone, even your own lawyer, because they will sell you out once the VA offers any settlement amount, or effective date he thinks he can get you to accept. They will tell you that you should accept the offer in their own professional opinion because they can’t do any better. What are you gonna do then? Get another attorney? No! If he wins “anything”, then you owe him 20% or whatever you agreed to. You can’t trust or believe anyone and I know this first hand. 
     

    I was lied to and deceived since June 7, 1971 in Vietnam to present day, and it will be 50 years this coming June 2021. I have had my medical treatment records and all my C & P benefits intentionally withheld until 2015, finally getting “IU” in 2020, but still had my medical records withheld til present day. My children were all affected by my Agent Orange Exposure and my oldest son died last December 2019 at 47 years old. He’d be 49 this coming March 2021, and should have been compensated because he wasn’t ever quite right. Yes, I am bitter that I was deceived for 50 years, when I should have been medically retired and my kids compensated.

    Believe what you want, but those three did not all miss all the mistakes on your exams in my opinion. Good luck regardless.

  2. On 1/19/2019 at 2:31 AM, Ddsr said:

    Keep fighting my brother. Never give up. Continue to study study study and seek those vets that have good knowledge. Not sure if you are TDIU or waiting to get scheduler. Sorry to hear about your spouse and how the VA is handling this. Prayers.

    Thank you. I should have been medically retired and they know it,but will deny everything that I say. They still are withholding the information and I am hoping a lawyer can get it. The VA is simply abusing its power, denying the known truth! Thanks for the encouragement, but I do not have hope for justice in my life time. What a mess. Prayers are appreciated. Thank You!

    victor ray

  3. I wish I knew the reason for the VA misleading us as we are pushed along the paths to our end. I completely believe that DAV is actually DVA. They are the worse liars of all so called VSOs. No VSOs actually fightfor you and none actually know the law. The VA trains all of them to do what the VA wants. Believe it or not, because you will anyway.

    file your claim, and if the outcome is lowballed, get an attorney, especially if the VA has Lied about your records. They will make sure I die before resolution, and I have come to see that I will always be part of the Agent Orange cover-up. 

    Dont waste your life waiting on VSOs to help you. I was screwed out of a life with benefits, and the VA needs much encouragement to be honest! Believe what you will and good luck!

    victor ray

  4. ShawnKatt1.

    my two cents is to use the search capabilities of the internet, if that’s even trustworthy. Who knows what lawyers will sell you out when they see an easy payday. Everybody I know that has ever been to a leagal hearing before a trial always say, “This is the best we can do, so I would take it.” Immediately, my first thought is you have been had. You were screwed, and the attorney needed a new Porsche or house, or waterfront real estate and you just handed it to him. 

    After he gets his cut 20-40%, or what ever he can con you out of because that’s just the beginning. After the other expenses it is closer to 40%, from what I hear anyway, but you are at their mercy. Watch out for the ones that tell you how honest they are, and pray that your gut instincts are keen when you do sign. 

    Some of these lawyers are in the Reserves, or retired military officers!?? WTH, is that not a flag??? They are gonna help you against those paying their pension. 

    The world and especially the VA is full of liars and cheats. They are disgusting and dirty. Get away from and VSOs, DROs, and look for that Lawyers ratings. Check the ratings, % of VA law they specialize in, and ask everything you can think of, of every one of those that you can, at the free consultation. So many of those take your case over the phone, and you have no idea who they are. I’m sorry for you and your husband, and the VA has lied to me in about every way possible, and I have requested basically the same as you, but they just lie, period. No and, if’s , or buts about it. They lie. I don’t believe for a second the lie about the other DRO scheduled was out sick. That’s almost a given. 

    Before you sign anything, demand final say so. He will tell you that if you don’t take the deal you will owe him because he already had a deal cut, and in other words, sold you out. He probably spent his cut already, and you will tick him off if you don’t agree with his quick payday needs. They are there for “number one”, and that’s not your husband. 

    Sorry I feel this way, but after 47+ years of complete deception, lies, hiding the evidence, my faith in the VA’s honesty is about 20.2%. The VHA is different. I’m very happy with them, but the VA is crooked, dirty, shameless, and will let your husband suffer from now on. This part of the VA is corrupt. Good luck and I hope you can find an attorney that will fight for you. It as simple as a flip of a coin and your gut instinct. 

    Victor ray

  5. Ha slice and 63Charlie, 

    you are absolutely right. All of you have been right. I believed the Army, then the VA, then the VFW in 1983, then the POS DAV, and dumped those (undercover VA employees), after their lies, then I went back and thought maybe the VFW was smarter than it was in 1983. NOPE-NOT AT ALL.  They are practically useless, but stock a lot of forms instead of getting them from the internet. 

    When I get over this illness, and if I can, I will actively seek legal representation. The scumbags have ruined so many lives, and there is no wonder the country is a mess. The whole GD Government is totally corrupt. They took advantage of us less informed and trusting believers, but f them. They told too many lies. I think I am done bitching and am moving on to litigation. Thanks to everyone. 

    Victor ray

  6. Asknod.

    You have great abilities and I wish I had some of them myself, but I am too brain damaged to know what to do. I have been lied to by the BVA down, and if a BVA judge is a liar, who do you trust. I would like to get in Wilkes face and demand truthful answers, but he’s more likely than not, a liar as well. There may be good employees in the VA, but they have “0” authority, and no ability to answer to the veteran anything other than what the government (VA) tells them to.

    I have talked to those over the VBMS and they have assured me I have all the records that exist. They are total deceivers. I have also talked to those within the NPRC, who tell me that the VA took the records I have tried to get for that period and have not returned them. The VA denied they ever had them, then admitted they did, but returned them to the NPRC, then sent me two letters saying “We are withholding all information that if released would fall under the Deliberative Process Privilege “. They then sent me a letter after I said why would you withhold records when the whole world knows about Agent Orange now”? They replied, “It was a mistake when they said they were withholding my records”. Again, complete bull. 

    The BVA admitted that in my 1983 claim, that the VA used my service treatment records in determining their decision, along with a dermatologist exam. “THE VA USED MY SERVICE TREATMENT RECORDS “. They have always maintained they were lost in 1971 intransit from Vietnam when I requested them in 1972 to use as evidence in disabilities to claim. I was too young to understand that the Army lies and what ever it takes to protect the government. I did have the DA3349 issued in Vietnam for permanent defects in my “ physical capacity and stamina “, but the dirty VA twisted it around saying the 708.9 “Urticaria Unspecified “ had nothing to do with my “Atopic Dermatitis “. On May 26, 1971 at the 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh RVN, the doctors misdiagnosed me with AD, which never existed before Vietnam. 

    The AD has been in their plain view, in their records, since 1971, and they awarded it on August 9, of this year. They lied about it not being in my records. They said I never complained in the service, but I was hospitalized repeatedly, once for 28 days straight. Another time for Upper Respiratory Infection due to “ Undetermined Organisms” in my lungs and blood(systemic). I developed an enlarged painful sensitive prostate at 19 years old, unexplained fevers, urinating blood, the lowest BP they had ever seen, believing their 3 sets of equipment was faulty. I could go on with the stroke from encephalitis, the Group A Streptococcus with Pharyngitis causing heart disease, or the AO or P. Malariae(?) causing complete artery occlusion, and coma, but the Army then the VA have all hidden the evidence. So they stacked the cards and shifted all burden of proof on to me. They are disgraceful and shameless, beyond reason.

    The VA destroyed my family members lives as well, denying them a young life of benefits which being my dependents, were legally entitled to. The VA is dirty, and have manipulated the law and the evidence to fit their agenda for over Forty Seven years, knowing the truth, but lying every day they let it go. I was 100% disabled at discharge and they knew it. PTSD is probably due to malaria in most all Vietnam Vets and they are hiding the nexus from all of us. I am completely disgusted with this racket of a game they use to screw us. They are dirty, most all of them.

    you may believe they are mostly passionate, but only in cherrypicking proper medical terms, and using terms like “Unspecified and Undetermined” is right up their alley. That gets them out of saying “Dioxin poisoning or Malaria or Tropical Disease”. 

    A DRO in St. Louis named x lied to me to get me to drop the face to face meeting, promising an honest review and saving 9 or 10 months waiting time. Both never happened and she lied her A*s off. None of them are honest. My case went all over the place under the pretense of the NWQ or what ever, but it was really for different attorneys to review to see what they could keep screwing me out of. That whole farce is a joke and phony makeup backlog. It’s who you know and that’s it. There is no backlog when DAV can in less than one week, get a claim expedited and 12 years in retro pay benefits complete, done, finished. Look up Steven or Stephen Kelly, handled by Mr. Edwards in St. Louis in 2012. 

    It’s a game they play with lives and I don’t have enough life left for them to screw over much longer, and that’s exactly what they want. They want you to kill yourself or have a speedy illness to get the books closed on you and your dependents. They are dirty. Dirty supervisors over dirty employees that pervert the law and manipulate the evidence. Yes, St. Louis is probably the biggest perverts of them all, besides the BVA itself. I’m going to the media and explain just how they can ruin you by sneaky disgusting tactics like LIES AND DECEITFUL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE.

    IT MAKES ME SICK how they can just do anything they please and never answer for their deceit to anyone. It’s because the whole thing is corrupt. Everyone at the VA is corrupt, protecting each other’s back, and if you are honest, you are out, done, and life is made miserable until they quit. 

    I don’t have time to file for different crap, and won’t be here to help my kids with the VA claims, just like the snakes planned. They will be screwed over like they have been all their lives already. I should have been medically discharged period, but the corruption is rampant in the dirty VA. 

    I don’t know what to do right now, but Wilkie will hear from me. Thanks A.

    victor ray

  7. Vetquest, Buck, Berta, Asknod, everyone else!

    Thank you and everybody for all the help and advice. It was all good, but when you are up against the establishment that is full of corruption, well, you know. They will never admit I had a stroke at 19 while on duty, that Migraines developed encephalitis I contracted in Vietnam and they would lie about every record on record, and what ever takes to avoid paying what was rightfully due.

    I have no respect for Army Regulations, U.S.C., or the BVA. They are all as corrupt as you can get and are a stepping stone to the court, where you only hope and pray there is justice. I have no faith in any of it now. I have seen too much, and figured it out. Dead men don’t complain.

    thanks, Victor

  8. Thanks Buck.

    Thats great advice, but i’m Afraid it’s too late. I am looking for legal representation now and have filed the Notice of Appeal against Wilkie. I don’t think he is a friend to Veterans, but I don’t really care anymore. It will go where it will go, and that is where they direct it to go. They are liars and thieves, forcing thousands to die annually, one way or another. They are Antiffa, they are everything we don’t want in this country, they are the LAw manipulators, they are the rigged elections, they are the swamp. It’s hard to respect liars and thieves who Deceived you and your family all of our lives. 

    I-need a lawyer, one like Paula Padeen had and I am looking now, and can only pray for one honest one out of thousands. It will be tougher than a needle in a haystack search. The VA has lived up to their reputation again, proving life and honor is so meaningless to them. It’s a joke they pulled on us. I am going to get my sh!t together and go to the media, like I have threatened, while I am alive. Maybe we can expose The VA scum in St. Louis, and Washington  will take some action, any action against them. 

    This is 100% wrong and has been for half a century. It is a story!

    thanks again.

    victor ray

  9. 17 minutes ago, Buck52 said:

    it looks like it can be a CUE   b/c the DRO IGNORED THE C&P..report

    This is crucial evidence they Ignored...

    As for as the DRO Mention another C&P  why would do do that? if they had copy of the last C&P Exam that was favorable to his claim?

    but most all DRO will ask if your agreeable for another C&P Exam but usually not when the veteran has already had one and is used for evidence  for a decision on his claim.....> hopefully this C&P EXAMINER WAS QUALIFIED. 

    Ingnoring this evidence should be grounds for CUE because it can change the outcome of the decision.

    Quote from Shawnkatt 1

    ''He's seeking to overturn a Raynaud's denial,  and increase his Fibro rating.''

    We have a Nexus letter supporting both,  and his C&P clearly states the Raynauds is related to the  fibro, and "was more likely than not,  related to his service in the Gulf War."

    This should be decided at the Regional Office Level  and no need to head to the BVA..Chances are they would just remand it back to the R.O. and say here fix this you dummy's

    Buck, 

    I cannot fight liars anymore. From the BVA down they are corrupt, perverting and twisting the facts in favor of the government’s interest. They do not say that I tried to get my records before discharge, but was lied to by them. They do not mention that I tried to get the medical records again in my 1983 claim, but the BVA did admit “the VA used my medical treatment records in the 1983 decision. I didn’t get a copy, but they did.

    Instead, they say I waited 40+ years to apply for disability, Forty something years after discharge. Total bull and lies. They intentionally hid my medical records since 1971 to purposely keep my conditions out of public scrutinizing, and deny me any benefits. 

    Every step so far has been totally manipulated by the VA, and they are controlling everything. They own the lawyers, claims agents, and VSOs in my opinion. Not actually own, but they strike deals to sell out the Vet for pennies on the dollars. Mr Foster was very unhappy with his representation and settlement, and we know who sold him out. I don’t trust a single person in the VA, from the bottom to the top. 

    They have lied and deceived to the end of MY life and I don’t give a damn what anyone says, ITS A TOTALLY CORRUPT ORGANIZATION, and St. Louis, where the records are kept, can verify it. 

    The NPRC told me that the VA took my records and have not returned them. They have no intention, and there is no chance in hell of anyone going in and physically retrieving them, so it’s a rigged VA tragedy. They are responsible for thousands of suicides and pretend to care so much. Total bull. They make you sorry you are a veteran after 47 years of lies, bullsh*t runaround, hiding evidence, manipulation of evidence, and crooked BVA. 

    They can all kiss my as*, the scumbags. Record requests are a joke, and if they want you dead, they just lie about your records, your injury, disease, or illness, and put the burden all on the veteran. Benefit of doubt in a “tie” is a total lie. They do what they want, and if it involves much money, they drag it out in court until you are dead. No one here can dispute any of this, so no need to reply. I just want the truth out about the scumbags controlling us. I am truly sorry I ever served. Veterans Day means sh*t.

    victor ray

  10. Thank you GeekySquid.

    i get it now. I did get that straightened out with the VA after I had paid for it, but I had been 50% rated for four or five months and still paying for my other meds, and at 50% and Vietnam Vet I had no co pay, but my doctor nor my nurse knew. I thought I had a copay because I also had outside insurance. I still do because I am married and the VA screwed me whe I should have been medically retired 46 years ago last April at 100% Service Connected, medical for life including spouse, 100% Pay, PX and all that stuff. 

    They lied for all these years and it pisses me off that they are still getting away with F’ing me and my family, and sitting on the evidence all my life. They are running our VA and totally immune from criminal activity. How can they get away with it? I still pay $10K annually for medical insurance premiums before taxes, deductibles, co pays or any out of pocket. It’s too expensive to live OR die nowadays. Dang. 

    I was lucky to survive 18 months, and did wind up in a coma. Thank you!

    victor

  11. 8 hours ago, vetquest said:

    I was discharged illegally from the USMC and had a most unusual disability.  The Navy Times did a story on me as their cover story.  It helped get some people involved but not much more than the people already helping me.  I was featured in a story in the Los Angles Times and on a segment on disabled veterans on a TV news report.  The total of real help received was nil from those stories.

    Yes, I believe it. Our priorities are so f’d up it’s unreal. Our President had two scoops of ice cream a year ago and it’s still talked about, lol, but marines or cops getting murdered hardly make the news even once. They will say two cops were gunned down today when they responded to a family dispute. The temperature today will.......

    I may not do squat, or I might. I know what I want to do, and that would be to see VA crooks go to jail, forever if they cause one single suicide. These scumbags are killing vets, but blame  bureaucracy, but THEY ARE THE  BUREAUCRATS. It makes you feel good about getting it out though, and today with the freedom of speech, you can get on tv and name every name of every doctor or rotten nurse examiner in Kansas and it not even matter. 

    The VA is completely biased, picking and choosing who gets SC and who don’t by the people they know, or their law knowledge. That’s why we get lawyers, because they have lawyers that make sure the law protects the government against scumbags like us that feel the Agent Orange or Malaria or the experiments actually did do harm.

    well, I will get it started and my kids will have to finish it a decade from now, probably. I may humiliate some people too, or get some fired. I will see. Thanks for the info.

  12.  

    I’m pretty sure you are talking to me. I went to a fee based dermatologist for both the  Agent Orange Registry exam. We discussed my spots on the lungs, and the Atopic Dermatitis. He didn’t mention the lung conditions, red dots all over except it was part of the Dermatitis. In the report he said I had Dennie Lines, but never said a single word about it. Every examiner I have seen has twisted the discussion to fit what ever the VA wants. I think they are the absolute worse medical people on the planet. Certainly the worse in America. 

    I had developed the lung conditions after Vietnam and was hospitalized for it about seven months after RVN, and still on duty. The Army documented it, but ignore the documents saying I had an Upper Respiratory Infection caused by “UNDETERMINED ORGANISMS “ that were in my lungs and blood, diffuse, acute. I don’t believe they didn’t know the organisms, and just left it at that. I spent weekends in bed, cramped up, parasites crawling around my eyes, migraine headaches, had a stroke, bunch of crap. Anyway, I was put on the Registry,  I suppose. I don’t know for a fact, and all I remember getting was a written prescription for Benadryl. Later I got a denial because they couldn’t pick and chose who were definitely exposed to AO, so they conceded my exposure, and Agent Orange was not found to cause any adverse effects or disabilities. What a crock. 

    I didn’t pay for anything except the Benadryl and never got any medical records to refute the disability denial. I was told they were lost in 1971, and requested them for 1983, but the VA never furnished squat, and basically still haven’t, except a months worth of hospitalization records from in RVN, Japan, Chicago Naval Hospital  Infectious Disease Ward and so on. 

    On another note, I paid for all medical care needs for myself and families all my life. The VA charged me $24.00 for 30 low dose aspirin 4 years ago. I could buy 200 at Walgreens for $5 on sale, and they still had me paying when I was 50% SC until I was reading about what was covered. My doctor from India had no clue what vets paid what, but she sold pharmaceuticals for decades before practicing medicine. She taught acupuncture Two days a week and did paper work on another, so two days a week she was a doctor. My doctor now is from India and pushes acupuncture too. That’s will take over medicine in the VA, and the US. The new rave is Yoga, acupuncture, and self love to conquer illness. I’m almost glad to get out of this fxxxxxg life. 

    I would not believe anything you are told if it is not written down and signed. Nobody likes their name on anything, especially VSOs. 

    Victor

  13. Buck.

    That’s what I thought when I read that article of the Vet Getting $480K. They would have had to pay him ALL at the 2013 rate, from what I understand. 

    I figure they have crapped on me for over 47 years already, screwed my dependents as well, lied about every decision they’ve made, used ignorant or corrupt nurses on exams (probably corrupt instead of ignorant, because no one is that ignorant, are they?), withheld all my medical Records, the evidence that proved a connection back to military service.

    There is something they don’t want out to the public. They tried the syphilis thing until I showed them the Army’s tests proving negative, TWICE. I think Malaria is one possibility because every vet that with PTSD probably has brain diseases, tumors, occluded arteries etc. I have all of that, and they’ve known my case since 1971, and i’m Sure they knew about them as well. 

    We must demand an autopsy done by independent doctors on every vvet with ptsd as they die, and have it published. I’m totally pro VA, but totally against liars in the VA. We all should be, but they do have their pets that take care of their business. 

    I will bet you anything we have more suicides from Vietnam Vets than from all other wars in our history combined. I don’t have to tell you it’s because the vets can’t handle the deception, the truth being denied, and the corruption by supervisors, so I won’t . 

    I don’t think the VA would offer a settlement, but I would consider one if it wasn’t an insulting offer, but considering the past treatment, I doubt that would happen. Wouldn’t it be nice to sit down with an honest VA representative? If not, then one with a seriously honest offer. It’s hard to believe they would make either happen, or they would have already. The VA has never offered me anything except misery, pain, and deception, unless they were forced or knew they could shaft me a little longer by percentages from time to time.

    They have made people do things they hate to do, in order to keep their jobs, and I hate to sound so negative about them, but they’ve ruined me with their corrupted supervisor punk law defying self righteous moron raters and examiners, and different department heads destroying evidence, lying about evidence, hiding evidence, and killing veterans. When you know every word they write to you is a lie, it’s hard to have any respect at all. 

    I’m sure they are reading every word of this, so they can call me or not. I don’t care either way. They’ve done killed me too many times.

    victor

     

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  14. The VA certainly did have my Service Treatment Records, but let me believe they were still lost. We did file for those records(me & VFW) and they were suppose to come to me. Four or five months after I was denied I move away because my employer had called me back to work. The records never came and the DA 3349 profile from the Vietnam Medical Board Proceedings was the only record I had. 

    The VA said I submitted no records in support of my 1983 claim and remember the Army told me my records were Lost in 1971 intransit from Vietnam and never changed that fact despite the requests for them, but CLEARLY, the BVA went on record saying the VA used them in 1983 to make its decision. WTF. That’s a WOW factor and clearly “uncovered the Cover-up”. That’s another deception the VA used to keep denying me and dependents of any benefits going back to 1971. That claim had an automatic effective date to the last day I served in Vietnam. I told Rochelle I bet this is going to get ugly before it’s done, over four years ago, because I knew the VA was 100% dishonest with my case. I always thought I was injected as an experimental project and I bet I was right. 

    The VA had them come to my house to make sure I didn’t have my own set of records. Lucky for them I didn’t, but they had to make sure anyway. Cover-ups can be tricky. At that time, only skin conditions were admitted as possibly being Agent Orange related. “Chloracne”. I didn’t have a single medical record except DA3349,  but knew I had skin condition disabilities from the Agent Orange Exposure that caused my Chloracne, Eczema, and skin Disease because it was unnaturally itchy, but no other conditions were allowed for compensation by the VA, and I didn’t know what any records said, or if there were any records. They were lost, remember. 

    I had complained about chest pains like my heart, migraine headaches, side aches, abdominal pain, bone pain Joint pain, back aches, feeling like I was getting shocked all the time, broke out like in puberty, insomnia, respiratory problems, shortness of breath, nausin, urinating blood six months after Vietnam, eye pain like parasites, and all the other crap they denied for 50 years. 

    They don’t want to talk to me so they can talk to someone else. Lawyers will have to get their own fees paid on top of mine. I got screwed, and the VA has been anticipating this since April 20, 1972

    Victor R. Sellers

     

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  15. 21 hours ago, Buck52 said:

    As for as I know there's no limits  (years) to refile an appeal.

    read this link about a Veteran won his  appeal claim  they went back 10 years that netted him  $$500.000.00  not a bad payday.

    https://www.stripes.com/vet-s-denied-claim-granted-10-years-later-for-500-000-1.237631

    Buck.

    it appears they are paying him at the current rate in 2013. If they paid me at today’s current rate for 568 months, it would be $1,784,088.00. That’s the disability wages, and includes nothing I paid out over the last 568 months. It does not include my kids compensation pay or what they lost. That does not consider the dirty dealings by the VA, or any sufferings by me, by them, future problems or early death, or anything else. 

    I had a lot of issues. Lots of them. While still on duty developing more and more all the time, and suffering from organism in my blood and lungs, and heart and liver and brain, and skin, and eyes, and everything. My guts, my kidneys, and I suffered. In May in Vietnam, I was cramping with severe abdominal pain and in January 1972 I was still cramping severely with abdominal pain. I had 24 tumors removed in 2014, I think it was, and the FAP TESTS were done to rule out heredity as the cause. None, Zero in my siblings or parents and they were environmentally acquired. 

    I dont know what the VA wants to do, but according to past events, they want to intercourse me as long as I breathe. They don’t talk to lay people , only their own caliber of people. I have to send off my NOA, certified. I’ll be back

    vrs

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  16. 19 hours ago, Buck52 said:

    Victor Ray,

     check out the hadit show again this coming Thursday 10/25 18  @ 7:00pm eastern  6:00pm central

    James Cripps wil be on and he maybe able to help you,  he is the first veteran to prove a A.O. Claim from just being station here in the USA...He proved his A.O. Claim was cause from the A.O. HE WORKED AROUND..

    .he also has proved other claims as well  he knows the regulations pretty good and how to present your claims ,  he could have some more information that would help you  ...>its worth a shot.

    James speaks loud and clear  he is from Nashville Tn Area. and Has Formed the  ''United States Veterans Alliance Group '' he is the head man for that group.

    HERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JAMES CRIPPS

    http://usva101.org/2017/05/a-message-from-our-founder-and-national-president-james-m-cripps/

    Yes Buck.

    I have listen to and talked to him before, and he’s very knowledgeable. He was a Game Warden for the Military, and a smart man. I will listen, but I know what I have to do. This needs to be in the media, and followed by the news as many Vietnam Veterans feel an absolute connection to brain tumors, strokes, brain lesions, much more than the Vietnam Era Veterans, or general populas of the same age. 

    I’m trying to get some answers, and yes, I do want proper compensation, who wouldn’t. I get peed off at times and feel that would be too lenient on the liars that’s kept this going this long. I should never have been deceived in the first place, but being part of the Agent Orange cover up, I almost understand their reasoning, but I wasn’t a guy that waited years to file. I was the guy with no choice but to wait. “THEY”-THE ARMY-DOD-THE VA forced me to wait. 

    “THEY”- said the medical treatment records were lost in 1971 when I requested them in 1972 for disability claims, because I was 100% disabled.

    The BVA in their August 9, 2018 decision used the lost records without giving me one copy of a single record, THAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY LOST.

    THE VA is 100% wrong, and they should realize it. The lies will be shown to be bigger and bigger as time goes.

     

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  17. Solo. 

    If my claim is going to hang on a technicality of not appealing in that one year period, then the VA is taking issue with exactness. I will have a ton of issues against the VA for its inability to be exact. I’m gonna a million holes in the actions of the VA, and we will prove this was 100% a complete DoD cover-up. 

    When the show begins, we can take it back to a cold winters morning in November 1970 in Basic Training. Drill sargents do not have the authority to over ride a medical officers when treating a patient, with a diagnosed serious illness, endangering his life, by literally dressing him (me) and carrying/dragging him out of a hospital bed against his will or the orders of the Officer. We can start there and take it right on down hill to the gutter before burying them. 

    There are times to fight and times to give up and a time to know the difference, and I’m just getting started. I want a trial. I don’t a settlement with retro benefits. I don’t want peanuts when the farm is mine. The VA lied, then lied, and then tried to cover up their lies.

    Kathleen Zellner isn’t a “VA law” attorney, but she can unravel fraud and cover up with the very very best, and she can write herself any check she wants in my case. There are lots of good people, but sadly, not near as many as corrupt ones, especially involving VA cases. I got ill, in Vietnam, and then the Army knew but let it get worse by covering up, and lying about the evidence. Then the VA, using my service medical records in 1983 couldn’t see any complaints? They didn’t know what the organisms in my blood and lungs were? The Army didn’t know either in 1971? Really? The Army really didn’t know? In 1983 the VA used my STR’s in their denial, but wouldn’t let me use them for an appeal? Wait a damn minute here!???”

    I could not get anyone to see me at the Kansas City VAMC after I moved here, to help me figure out what I acquired in Vietnam, because I could see my kids were affected. I was rebuked in the 1980s, turned away in the 1990s, and still having lots of issues. I gave up, but in 2012 started trying to get my medical records again. Still nothing but lies and runaround up to 2015 all my letters and FOIAs over five decades did very little, but one of those phone calls I made got me some of the hospitalization records from Vietnam, just for asking. I simply asked for them and was shocked. No forms, no FOIAs, I just asked. That month in the hospital (21days in Vietnam) should have been good for a lot of conditions claimed, considering I had current conditions too, the same in the Army, but it wasn’t. NOPE. Not near good enough. They maintained I did’t complain in the service, I wasn’t boots on ground long enough, and the big one,” HE DROVE HIMSELF TO THIS EXAM”. That was the clincher I guess. 

    It is what it is, is it not. We will see. The VA has no interest in me, other than brushing me off as a sucker, a fool. Oh well. 

    VRS

  18. 14 hours ago, Solo said:

    They only started awarding benefits for agent orange after the Agent Orange Act of 1991. Your decision in 1983 is not compensatable before the Law became effective.

    https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/disability-compensation-agent-orange-vietnam-blue-water-veterans.html

     

     

     

    Solo,

    maybe we can petition to revamp that law to be correct and retro. So the guys infected in 1964, but didn’t show symptoms until 1966 just got killed and didn’t have a chance. Let’s see 1964 to 1991? He had to wait 27 years before the VA would help him? I totally know they would do that, only if forced, and never on their own. 

    If you wiped the seats off of a C123 that was here in CONUS, but used in Vietnam, even in 1990, you get service connected for any of those presumptive conditions, but if you were hospitalized a month in Vietnam for skin and organ conditions that have an illusive undetermined cause, and deteriorated from the time you were hospitalized in 1971 to present you are denied because your records were lost and you couldn’t appeal. That’s what you are saying. If I filed after the C123 seat wipers, I could get SC right? So, you give the government the first 20 years you suffer, and then you might get connected in your deathbed. Right. It’s a pretty good RACKET ISNT IT,

    Victor Ray Sellers

  19. 2 hours ago, Solo said:

    I doubt that they can even go back to the 1983 decision because it wasn't  appealed.  He has to continue the appeal the decision through the appeal process BVA, CAVC, Federal District Court of Appeal, and finally the Supreme Court. It doesn't take 35 years for the CAVC to hear his appeal of the BVA's decision.

    He keeps on reapplying which starts a new date of entitlement. They are not going to pay him back to 1983 because he didn't appeal the decision.

    You are wrong Solo.

    Thats  “three to five years” anyway, not 35. No, I do not keep reapplying for the original claim, but I am claiming the conditions in every way I can, so they can understand what the claim is referring to. The raters are suppose to figure out the closest condition that is eatable, but they can’t get it. It’s over their heads when it’s simple.

    The VA can do what they want, and that keeps getting missed. My records were supposedly lost in 1971, preventing a claim then at that time before discharge. I requested the records in 1983 and  the VA never responded to the requests for records, so again I had nothing to work with. This was no accident. They intentionally withheld the records, and in the last few years have told me why I never got any records in my requests. They fall under the Deliberative Process Privilege and are withheld in Anticipation of Litigation. NONE of my records were ever lost for one minute. They were always guarded carefully, SO THEY WOULDNT BE LOST!

    1: if I had access to those records I could have filed before discharge in 1972. 2, if they would have given me access to those records in 1983, the claim would have gone back to the day I left the WarZone. 

    After another 20 FOIAs they sent a letter saying flagella that “ theft were withholding all evidence which if released would fall under the Deliberative Process Privilege. Two years later I got another letter basically saying the same thing. 

    Heres the point. I would have filed in service for disability and would have been granted, no doubt, regardless of Agent Orange knowledge. I had the disabilities, whether from Liver Flukes, parasites, encephalitis, or jelly bean poisoning. They remained constant and continuous since Vietnam. The one year appeal for 1983 was held up waiting for the service treatment records. The VA used them in their decision, but again, refused me access to them for an appeal. That’s, 12 years they were supposedly lost, but were withheld, no matter the case.  I did not know and only now found out that the VA had those medical treatment records in their possession, but withheld them from me. WHY? Why did they withhold them. Sounds pretty manipulative to me and any court will too.

    it took 45 years to get any medical records. The one record I did have was basically Greek-Latin to those interpreting the DA3349 with the P-3 Profile, and meant nothing to them. It was the medical board proceedings issued in Vietnam, and way over Their understanding

    My medical conditions occurred on duty, directly in service, while on duty, but you are not understanding that it seems. I don’t need a nexus letter to show them beginning in service. They are documented as directly beginning in service. I then showed the current situation and disabilities, so I proved they began or were made worse in service, and are still happening, still active. I did no wait 50 years then apply as the VA lets on. They have lied about everything, but the benefit of doubt going to the Veteran is pure bullish!t. They never accommodated me in any way. They were hiding massive lawsuits, Billions being paid out in damages and I was a piece of evidence. 

    They tampered with the evidence, hiding it, manipulating it, threatening it, but I don’t give a sh!t and that makes the difference. I’m gonna prove the VBA intentionally tried or did influence the outcome of millions of claims by lying about the evidence they intentionally hid, altered, or still sit on. I knew it would get ugly.

    this whole long process is designed to kill veterans before they ever get their justice. All these steps in the process are there to eat up our time on the earth. I have trying to be heard and asking for help since January 1972, when it was obvious that the Army had no clue what to do. They couldn’t even figure out the swelling in my legs, ankles, arms, the acne like eruptions around my eyes, blisters on my hands, nothing. 

    The reason for all this manipulation is my conditions after Vietnam show that PTSD & BRAIN DAMAGE are directly connected, period. Was it the Agent Orange or Malaria, they are not saying, not studying, and avoiding anytime it possible. I am a link in the chain, so they want me to die and weaken the link, period. They will tell any lie they can get away with, and they know that before we figure it out, we are at life end, and don’t have the time left to get the truth out. 

    We have to educate the young vets just now entering service what the VA will do to them, and how to prepare. 

    vr

  20. 20 minutes ago, Pockets said:

    I served in a time of "peace" and fear my sentiments will be lost but I had to respond. There are times when the army is so accommodating it's sickning. All I had to do was write a letter and they let me out. Hell~ they even gave me a good conduct medal on the way out. It's my badge of shame!

     

    Pockets.

    If you had 18 months or more you could get an early release, but had to finish your Time in a reserve unit. That was about when the volunteer army began and I was the first on base to qualify. I had hoped to get quality care by civilian doctors, but they were lost. When doctors asked what was my diagnosis in Vietnam for being hospitalized I said a “skin Disease” is all I know. They said “what caused it”, and I would reply, “they said they had no idea”, “but this form DA3349 says Chloroquine Allergy”, and I would add, “I was never allergic to Chloroquine, but they used that rule to get me out I guess”. I didn’t know they even used that reason until I was getting discharged. It was all a crock. 

    They are very sneaky and tricky, aren’t they? LoL. 

  21. 24 minutes ago, Solo said:

    Request an Independent Medical Opinion if you don't trust the employee of the VA. That is if it is pending at the St Louis Regional Office.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/38/3.328

    You first appeal is to the Agency of Original Jurisdiction which is usually the Regional Office. That is when you request an IMO before they can deny you and give you a Statement of the Case.

    Yes, I went through all that. The BVA granted Atopic Dermatitis at 0%, after overlooking it for 47 years. In their August decision they said they used my service treatment records, the fee based dermatologist report, my lay statements etc......that dermatologist said he found “Atopic Dermatitis with Generalized Pruritus “, and the decision says in that 1983 decision that it could find no connection to my service. No, I don’t trust them. Not a single word they utter.

    So much for their expert judges.

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  22. Solo.

    I don’t care what they do now. They’ve lied so many times and denied “everything that’s documented”, while using the Deliberative Process Privilege to deny my family the benefits they deserved, and they will keep on lying and keep on denying as long as the corrupt St. Louis machine is running is running the VA. America doesn’t need enemies because we have the VA to get rid of our vets. We have been sh*t on for nearly 50 years, and I hope these employee’s kids and grandkids get the same treatment they gave me and my kids. I hope they say to these employees, you never worked for the government and there is no record of you ever working for any government at any level. Produce your pay stubs from 50 years ago as evidence, and the bank transactions, buddy statements that proved you worked “where in St. Louis”? No one remembers you there! We don’t believe you. You get no benefits. Your age or health has nothing to do with your ability to come out of what you thought was government retirement, because you aren’t entitled to government retirement. You have to have worked for the government to get that, and we can’t find those 50 years you say you were employed by the VA, so, “DENIED, lol, DENIED “. You are denied. We need evidence you worked for us, and we cannot find one single hour worked for the federal government. 

    Sorry for rambling this nonsense, but you see how idiotic the reasoning is. The Army don’t let you lay in the hospital for a month because of dry skin, because of hives, because of a temporary allergy. “Does anyone believe” for one minute that the 47+ years of disability and benefits withheld was because I wasn’t in Vietnam? Richard Cranium Blumenthal received more VA benefits than I did, even if he did misspeak and misremembered, and maybe that’s why he the second richest senator in America. Man he made millions from his salary, or VA benefits for his service in Vietnam. He also got more Service Medals than I did. We need to make a Holiday in Connecticut in honor of his service in Vietnam. What a great guy and representative of Connecticut Vietnam Veteran’s, where they greatly support him. 

    Does anyone believe the evidence was accidentally withheld since 1971? Does ANYONE believe that dryskin causes CAD? How about strokes? Maybe it occluded carotid arteries or atherosclerosis? Would you believe  lung atelectasis or blood coagulation disease? Maybe it causes a painful prostate (BPH at 19 years old) or connective tissue disease? Possibly the Brain Hypodensities like  I have? 

    Maybe we should not focus on Chloracne, PTSD, heart disease, peripheral neuropathy, connective tissue disease and refocus on dry skin, because it seems worse than the others. I happen to have all of them, but that dry skin seems to cause more problems than Dioxin. 

    It seems the Army doesn’t know what Dioxin does. President Trump just said in Texas at 8:06 pm Central Time, that those people mistreating our veterans Mitzie Marsh, that they will be fired. I am going to send him my medical records and a letter asking him his opinion. I want to know if he thinks I am right to say I was ill in Vietnam, if dry skin caused my conditions, or is it more likely than not a Tropical Disease and if I was possibly exposed to Agent Orange, and if it’s possible, why were my records withheld all my life, depriving me of all medical care, all medicine, all C & P for myself and dependents. President Trump just mentioned THE ALAMO, where my ancestor Isaac Millsaps of “Gonzales’s Immortal 32”. The genealogy is traced.

    The liars in our government and our country is out of control, completely. Facts and evidence mean nothing anymore. If the VA don’t like it, they just hide it or blatantly deny it exists. Corruption is running rampant and the examiners have one agenda in Kansas City anyway, and it’s lie to deny. I’m sick of the good laws created for fairness being perverted by the nuts running the VA, and they need to be fired. 

    Sorry if the truth being said offends some,  but they didn’t lose anything.

    vr

  23. Thanks Solo.

    the VA laughed at me spending six weeks in a rehab facility in Chicago, 1974, several attempted suicides, because they knew my brain was physically altered. It knew I was ate up with parasites that altered my DNA, or the Dioxin altered it, so they will have me have me die before admitting a daxn thing. They have laughed and snickered at all Vietnam Vets all of our lives, and will continue. I was 22 and a mental wreck from their experiment, and when combined with Dioxin ingestion and encephalitis from parasites, I had to have a stroke. My carotid artery was completely occluded and they couldn’t wait to get rid of us. Thus, the voluntary Army. They couldn’t get rid of us fast enough with those early outs, so, to get you out of service they even cut your obligation in half. CAN YOU IMAGINE the Army being so kind it just let you out? Come on now. 

    They withhold my medals, withhold my medical records, say I had NO SERVICE IN INDOCHINA, say I never complained in service, say I was never treated or diagnosed with any of the claimed conditions and that there is no records of any of the claimed issues. The BVA even says this basically. Some people like the St. Louis raters like Maureen or Moe, and VSOs like Dan Kanabe and Joseph Braun are deleting or destroying evidence or manipulating it in some way, but I don’t believe the BVA is getting all the truth.

    Something is rotten in St. Louis and stinks to high heaven. There are some very dirty people there, and have made a career of screwing us over. Everyone there should be fired. All the government in St. Louis is corrupt. America is done I think. There is no honor in government. I’m afraid we have lost the honor that held us together. Shameless! 

    They have my number, if they want to chat, or lawyers can work it out. I don’t care either way.

    vr

  24. I am not aware of this presumption, and have never heard of it. Can you point it’s authority out? I’d like to look it up, but I have PTSD, and permanent physical brain damage. You said it was a new presumption, right? I had a stroke in service from malaria, but they have buried the evidence and only a lawyer can get the records in a malpractice suit, from what I understand. Can you point out that authority, regulation, or where I can find it....Thanks

    vr

  25. 27 minutes ago, Solo said:

    I didn't have a diagnosis or received treatment in service. I used the presumption to get approved. This is how many veterans get approved. I will take whatever they give me. I got bills to pay which aren't going to pay themselves. 

    Solo,

    what presumption would that be?   You have your records because you were only in one place, but i’m afraid you lost me. What presumption would apply to you?   Yes, I have bills too, and always had to pay every one myself. The VA doesn’t communicate very well. They send forms. What presumption are you talking about?

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