Victor Ray

IT IS A TOTAL LIE. Do not believe anything the VA puts out concerning new anything because it is all designed to benefit the government, NOT THE VETERAN. AS IT STATES, you give up all rights to retropay, past effective date, and I don’t remember what all, but I do remember thinking you would be insane if the claim had been in the process for any length of time. If you had filed a claim say one year ago, and are willing to give that up, then go for it. If you had a NEHMER claim filed that could go back 50 years and are willing to give up that date, then go for it. You are giving up all retro everything for an immediate resolution today, and if you don’t care about your dependents losing their due benefits and compensation, or a claim that’s been there for several years, you can do it, but you can’t reopen that claim. You probably give up any secondary connection, or any right to future presumptive conditions as well. I don’t know these things, but that is the way I take it from what I remember. Everytime the VA changes something, the veteran gets screwed, and if nothing else, I have learned this. They have lied, cheated, manipulated, hidden evidence, hidden brain damage, tropical diseases, and dozens and dozens of secondary conditions all acquired in LD, to deprive me of benefits for FORTY SEVEN YEARS so far. I can show you most of the evidence they documented themselves, proving 100% what I claim, but they still deny SC. Evidence doesn’t matter if they are not in the mood to accept it, so before you sign your life away, think if the benefit is to award you due benefits, or are you losing benefits! Only you know what is important to your family. After FORTY SEVEN YEARS OF DECEPTION, I am doubtful of anything being done intentionally by the VA to benefit the veteran, just the opposite.

I’m pretty sure it was Hill and Ponton’s satellite office in Houston, Texas that wanted to Charge me $150 dollars to discuss a malpractice lawsuit or represent me in acquiring benefits due for being lied to, deceived, records withheld over the last 47 years, and I just don’t trust anyone now. My wife and kids are it. My mental health doctor is just a puppet, DAV and VFW are liars, skunks and scum, just like the VA. It doesn’t matter who it was really because none of them are trustworthy. It’s a game with who can deceive you the most with you feeling screwed over the least. It is just hard to accept the world of lies and corruption we live in and are governed by, and the government thinking nothing of murdering thousands of veterans to avoid administering benefits to them because they were poisoned by Agent Orange AND that ABSOLUTELY HAD to be covered up. I feel paralyzed, unable to move for fear of another liar trying to deceive me for the VA’s benefit. Who is the least likely to make a deal under the table with the VA in order to cheat you, and I know these scumbag VSOs do it regularly, and I’m sure the law firms do as well. There is nothing the VA won’t do to screw over you, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. There are no boundaries for them, and the more wicked the faster up that corporate ladder the go. The slime bag from DAV that lied to me got promoted, and isn’t that par for them. How sad that our own government is so dishonest and responsible for so many innocentpeople dying. Unbelievable .

My 2 cents on this subject is that we Vets start from day one assuming that there is a legal process that vindicates the truth. You file a claim, it’s assigned a number, you present the evidence, it’s reviewed, VA raters look it over comparing the evidence against the claim, they find the nexus because the military documented it, your claim is granted, and you are very happy and thankful. WRONG! You were instead lied to from day one! Your records are lost, they are withheld, they are misfiled, they altered, they are unreadable, they were destroyed, or they never existed. You never complained in service, you were never diagnosed in service, were never treated for this condition in service, there is no records of these claimed conditions in service, therefore your claim for xxx is denied because in was neither incurred in nor was made worse by your military service. ALL LIES, all MANIPULATION, all DECEIT, all DECEPTION, in order to deprive you and your dependents of any benefits the VA can withhold from you, and add to their own wealth. The ABUSE OF POWER BY THE VA “is mind blowing, it’s a sobering fact”, and they don’t want it to change. Your “ military documentation “ is meaningless to the raters, and these raters are basically the same as used car sales people, and a buffer before you talk to the actual dealer. You will never talk to the dealer himself-never ever, only his subordinates. The VSO or car salesman and you, do the paper work. He takes it to the rater or manager and he gives you a little break(10% and maybe a bit more). Not being that happy you do more paper work with the VSO and he goes to the rater. Eight or 12 months later he awards another 10% and knows he wont see you for another year. Being very upset and getting gravely I’ll you and the VSO set down and put together the best offer going all in with all evidence they have allowed you to use, but withholding the meat of it, the back bone, the core and absoluteness of the definitive Nexus. The rater gives you a “0” and another 10% knowing now it’s going to be at least three, but more like12 years before he sees you again, if you survive that long, and of course he has had your medical history all this time, and working the numbers knows that having three years of life is left is pushing it beyond reality, he kicks back, cuts himself a bonus from the money allocated for guys disabled like you, and he buys the car himself. Every time he passes the cemetery he glances over at your headstone and the loved ones paying their respects and comforting the young dependents and snickers, with a smirk, and a big “thank God for vets like you, you fool”. He takes his new ride to the incinerator to burn the wasted paperwork and back to the office for another claim, and this time it will be for a Jamaican Holiday!

I totally agree Buck. It shouldn’t be that way. It makes me wonder about a guy like me. At 67, and in my condition I am hoping for 2 or 3, because 20 years is miracle nonsense for me. Two years is probably stretching it. I was well over the 30% required for medical retirement in 1971, and that’s another thing that the effective date probably affects. I never had one year that my health was normal, mentally or physically, but I did have some years that were better than others. Not a single day I did not think of that lie about my records being lost, or them saying “there is a medical profile sheet”, like it was just a piece of irreverent paper. It was the Government’s Documentation and Investigative report, signed by not 1, or 2, or even 3, but signed by FOUR Medical Officers, with one being the COMMANDER of the largest US Military Hospital in the world, and a legal statement that in their opinion I was non deployable to most of the world, that these conditions were permanent and superseded all other profiles, and that I had permanent defects in my “Physical Capacity and Stamina”. It is the most important document a veteran can have, other than a medical disability discharge in order to receive disability benefits, and to simply call it a sheet is insulting. The Army and the VA played down my conditions all they could. The mosquito bites were only barely noted and that was after 10 days or so in the hospital, and not by a doctor either. It was a nurse or specialist that noticed them. I pointed it out, but the doctors ignored me. I hope you do well the next three years and That I am here to say “Congratulations Buck”. You can now plan a life and relax. I think you will be ok. Me, I will probably die being weighting and ignored, but hoping. Take care victor ray

That’s more good information Buck, and I had been told something similar, but not as informative as your comment. They have told me that they have sent all they have, so I thought the 4 hour drive would not be worth it. I don’t believe they know what they are talking about, and if a very long walk is involved, my wife would have to push me, and it’s a real inconvenience. If I knew for a fact they had something I don’t, I would go. My records are locked away with the “Custodian of records” awaiting litigation is the way I take it, and I will have to sue the government to get them. That is the way I take it because DoD called me over four years ago asking why I wanted them. I have to wait the 21 days to see if they can be obtained by other means, short of a malpractice law suit. They contemplated litigation 47 years ago, so something is important they don’t want out in the public. I will keep you posted though. Maybe they want to negotiate or something, I don’t know, but it is the most unique case I know of, and it’s me that’s in it. Maybe they want it in the news? Who knows the VAs reasons for its actions. We will see! victor

Buck. I feel I know you a lot better now and I totally relate to you and your battle with the VA and VSOs, and see that we have had a lot of instances and issues in common. It’s great that you are at least comfortable now finally, after a long time coming, but a shame you still have claims waiting to be heard. These VSOs are trained by the VA so everything will be done according to the VA WAY. IF the Army had not lied in January 1972 about my medical records being lost, this would have been resolved in 1972, but out of greed and self preservation, it hid, lied, and covered up facts that verified many actual in service documented cases, causing an already bad reputation to get much worse. By them Not releasing any records in 1983 and denying my word as being true, it only made me resent them, because it was a slap in the face and a kick in the gonads, but all I knew was the records must actually be lost, and I gave up. From time to time all my life I have had crazy issues happen that could not be explained. At work one time I had my ankles swell so bad I had to have my boots cut off to get relief. Have you ever cut real leather with a butcher knife? I was lucky to keep the job, and I couldn’t work for eight months after the service because of various issues, and I had a bad experience with being comatose and fighting fever and infection just months after the service and about one year after Vietnam. The symptoms are exactly those of cerebral malaria, and I would bet everything I have that the Army knew it and is covering it up to this day. So besides having contact with Agent Orange and ingesting it, and undercooked food, I know I had some sort of parasites. For several years I could feel like worms crawling in my eyes, and I had complained it in the Army, but none of the medical officers seemed to be up to par for a doctor. They didn’t take any serious interest in medicine that I could see. Cars were much more interesting it appeared, than investigating or hunting for possible parasites. I don’t think those doctors knew I was medivac’d out of Vietnam with many illnesses looking back. I believe they weren’t informed and knew nothing of me being very ill before being assigned on their base, or they were told I simply had an allergy to Chloroquine, and believed it. My kids were affected too. One time her face swelled and I pushed on her forehead, and the intention took quite a while to go away, and one of her daughters was born with hip dysphasia, and the other heart issues. I think the St. Louis Regional Office has manipulated my records too, putting the blame on others. I had sent a stack of doctors reports and exams to the Janesville WI office like I was told, for them to have for a decision coming up. When I got the lowballed decision rating six months later, I called St. Louis to complain and was told they didn’t receive the records in time for that decision, but they would pu me in for reconsideration. That’s bull. I called Janesville and they said all documents are scanned into the system in 21 days or less. ST. LOUIS LIED! They have manipulated my case for four years now, besides the previous forty three. I am hoping President Trump does improve the system, and I know he wants to, but the thugs at the top are rotten to the core, and like scamming the gov. and want it to continue. The “SWAMP IS DEEP AND WIDE”. Thanks Buck and enjoy what you can, while you can before we take the nap. victor ray

Buck. I read enough to get pissed off, but will go back again and again anyway. I went to the clinic several times for the numbness, the feeling of getting shocked, the skin conditions that were embarrassing from the acne, the blistering of the skin on my hands. They kept me covered from head to toe in calamine lotion in Vietnam to help with the oozing blisters and eruptions and it’s all documented and the DoD, Army, VA, NPRC, NARA, DAV, VFW all have it on file. Nebraska, Kansas City, Atlanta Georgia, Waco Texas, St. Louis Missouri all have looked over the records, and awarded me 10 and 20% increments to now, except when DAV told them to deny my unemployability and remember that I dropped them as my VSO when distrusting any benefits and to complete all progress as soon as possible. That time I got “0” increase and denied unemployability but was disabled from strokes for 5 or 6 years at that point. I dropped DAV for being dishonest and lying, besides delaying all progress, throwing my claim in the trash after keeping me from filing for 4 months. I went to them to file in March and by November my claim still wasn’t filed. They are corrupt in Kansas City as well as St. Louis Mo. I know that in time, Justice should prevail, but it doesn’t always. It depends on who is handing out justice that day, and not so much on the law or evidence, but when your evidence is intentionally withheld by the government and you sue the government to get it, they will take care of their own, because it’s in their interest, as always. I will see what the hot line call does and probably get a lawyer for many things. I’ll see what happens. Thanks Buck!

Will check it out Buck. It comes down to an honest employee taking 5 minutes of their busy schedule to look at a couple documents, that’s all. When a hundred employees look at the facts, but only one of those has any integrity and honesty, you keep getting run through the cycle til you get one that’s honest or you die. I think I will write up a short letter and spend about five hundred dollars on nice copies of it and my treatment records and send each government office a copy addressed to the supervisor, and to the TV stations. I know they don’t care, but you know, I don’t either. I was 19 years old when they deprived me of the records and now going on 67, and they contemplated litigation all these years, so I may as well give it to them. Thanks for the read. victor ray

Buck. I have my DD214, copies of original 1 and certified copies of #2. I was expert with rifle and have the Vietnam Service medal. They withheld the Vietnam Campaign Medal and National Defense Service Medal and Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase VII, at least they weren’t issued on the DD214. Almost anything putting me in Vietnam was hidden or barely noted. I have the form to request the Campaign Medal, but I kind of don’t care anymore. The VA lied to me, deceived me, and cheated me out of so much, that I am on a roller coaster of emotions, caring and not caring what they do with them. If they don’t think I deserve them they can keep them. It’s a lifetime of deceit and everything they say in my opinion, is a lie sprinkled with a speck of truth. Veterans are a byproduct and waste, left over of what were good young men and women at one time and it’s just a damn shame the extremes they go to in avoiding those regulations. I got my records from the VA on a CD and some on paper, so sending them back seems ridiculous, but they keep me confused intentionally anyway. I don’t know what good the certificates of training would do though Buck, I really don’t. I don’t there is a question of my military service, or me being “Boots on Ground” in Vietnam, or even that I was hospitalized a month over there and Japan. I think it has always been connecting Agent Orange with the disabilities I developed from it. In 1983, all AO Disability claims were still denied automatically. The VA was sneaky and would pry any records you had out of you hands if possible. They have the facts, the proof they need. I have to get a doctor to say Victor developed Chloracne as a result of service in Vietnam, even though I have only known him for a couple years. It pisses me off that they had the Gaul to refuse me service connection after suffering with their skin disease because they deprived me of the records, the evidence, and all medical care all my life, then demand treatment records for evidence. I think it will require a malpractice suit against them, because they are sneaks, cheats, and liars right to your face, here is one example....Victor

Buck. I came back from Vietnam on C-141 medical plan, I think that was the model, and we were all changed over to military medical buses in beds, and taken to our respective wards at Great Lakes Naval Hospital Chicago Illinois. I was taking to the infectious disease ward for further observation and came back in a light blue hospital gown, flip-flops, and wallet in hand, that’s it, besides a folder with medical records for the hospital. I was discharged from Redstone Arsenal missile base in Huntsville Alabama. I had a hearing test and they changed my profile from (PULHES) One 1 to a two 2, and recommended further testing which they did not give. I had a physical and was told that if I said I had any issues on anything, I would not be discharged, but held on duty. I went along with everything just to get out to get real help. I still had lung issues, migraines, fatigue, everything, but they didn’t even treat me with antibiotics for GAS/GAB. Luckily, a buddy got out couple days before me, but weighted until I got out and drove me home to my wife and 2 kids, and we towed his motor cycle. I’m grateful that he stayed to help, cause I don’t know how it would have been done. Within 6 months I was in ER in a comatose state, fever of 106+, convulsions, seizures, but ice baths and antibiotics of some sort saved me and stabilized me for a while. No party or celebration. I was sick but glad to be home. I had my DD214, P-3 profile and the rest must have gone to the National Gard Unit I got assigned to due to an early out, because I didn’t have anything that I remember. I think a few finance papers, travel orders home, some cloths, the records I do have came from the NPRC, NARA and VA. I couldn’t get the medical records even from the clinic across the street. it would be different if I would have gotten them. I was pissed, but what can you do when it comes to the government. Plenty, I have learned, but at the time I thought no one can argue with the government. Victor ray

Berta, I read the review and can’t believe I missed it, but in 1983 when they lied and denied any service connection, for any skin conditions, Residuals, after I was issued a P-3 permanent profile with permanent defects, medivac’d out of Vietnam, developed one condition after the other, all in the Line of Duty as recorded, I was crushed. I couldn’t even talk about the VA for the hatred, so I avoided everything I saw about it. 10 years earlier (1974) at 22 years old I wound up in a rehab for alcohol and drugs, and was a bone with skin on it. I hated the alcohol, but loved the numbness and altered State it put me in, but no idea why. I knew I changed the second I felt a pop in my brain, and I have never recovered, but found out I have some dead white brain matter, and that has to be in the records they are hiding. They would rather me croak than admit it. So far I have had 24 intentional tumors/polyps removed and am due for another colonoscopy because it’s been 3 years. I qualified for FAP TESTING, having over 10 polyps removed at the same time(actually 18), and the test showed they were environmentally acquired, not inherited. I have had malignant shin cancer removed, so it’s a matter of time. My atherosclerosis is off the chart though so anything can happen. Life is one day at a time. I think this whole thing has been one big CUE or MALPRACTICE. If those records would have been given to me, I would have been granted disability retirement, and the outcome totally the opposite. Thanks for all your help Berta. You all are great! victor ray

Yes, the medical board in Vietnam didn’t know the reason, but at first thought it might be Chloroquine, so they gave it to me and observed over and over and over, but nothing. The swelling was abnormal, and I know it wasn’t the Chloroquine, but maybe something else they were testing. We were given Chloroquine in the USA before we went over to prevent these future allergies weren’t we? DoD would not do something so stupid as send troops to the other side of the earth and just hope there was no problems. They didn’t know about Agent Orange supposedly, and I believed it for a little bit, until I woke up to the VA WAY. They do deceive, cover up, LIE, and what ever it takes to stall, put off, and allow you to parish without any remorse. They may correct something, when they get nailed, and not because they want to. victor ray

Berta. thank you for the links and information and I will check each one out, and look for the movie, UNNATURAL CAUSES. I thought I knew what AR 635-40 was for, but I never saw a PEBLO when I was in the hospital or afterwards. I was sent “Home Awaiting Orders” and went before a board, not even knowing what their intentions were. Nobody said anything to me about going before this board, and I never got a diagnosis for the cause of my permanent defects, why I swelled so bad, had this rash (papular rash) around my eyes, ears, neck, abdominal pain, bone pain. The OIC in Vietnam said the Chloroquine challenges had no particular effect on me, (in the records)not one of the three or four 300mg treatments, and I was sent to Japan for further testing. There they still could not resolve the cause, and could not treat me, so on the CONUS. However, the report I finally got from the Chicago inpatient stay after 45 years of requestings, says that “I said, I broke out every time I took malaria pills.” I never said that. I said I thought I had Malaria. Something gave me a stroke, migraine headaches, symptoms of cerebral malaria, brain damage, and acoma just months after discharge. Chicago also said I had a skin disease, and Urticaria 708.9 (unspecified). Basically hives. Now, I know hives is a symptom and not a cause, but they figure we are all ignorant. The immune system was going crazy, blood cells bursting, plugging up capillaries causing the wheals, and maybe the swelling, but it was bad. The Army never named any cause, just the result or symptoms. Upper Respiratory Infection, Undetermined Organism, Urticaria unspecified, possible this and that. Paula Padene got stuck in a basement as punishment also for whistle blowing, but she may have saved a life too. They settled with her too. i had written Shulkin too, then he made the news. Can we not get any honest person in government? Dang! Oh, I listened to you on the podcast the last show. It was great to hear you too, and educate us. Thank you, Thank you! victor ray

Buck. MaryAnn’n name is familiar, but I don’t think any amount of evidence at this point would make a difference much. I need someone to step in that has some authority, and ask these raters if any other veterans were awarded claims similar to mine, and if so, why wasn’t I. It seems their approach rings true for my case, “It’s hard to pick and choose which Vietnam Veteran’s that were boots on ground, and hospitalized for disabling conditions from unknown sources, had permanent multiple defects from these sources of undetermined and unspecified origin, so we will concede your exposure to Agent Orange considering it was sprayed at every location I sat foot, however we are going to withhold the benefits awarded to others with these conditions. That’s kind of the way I feel and the way this has gone all my life. This has been a malicious CUE. The Army knew what they were doing and the records were purposely withheld to suppress evidence of Agent Orange causing any conditions at all, and the VA is defending that bad decision they chose in 1971. If they had their way completely, we would still not know what AO is, or what it did and continues to do. Their biggest friend is Father Time and even though we die the VA lives on, withholding benefit after benefit of veterans survivors. They are withholding evidence and make up laws as they go along to protect their secrets. Just look at the FBI and DOJ, and you can see the corrupt forces at work, but who will call the VA out on this? The VA is the reason for veterans suicides, because they see the fight is rigged, and they have no chance when the VA owns the fight and has predetermined the winner. James and Berta nailed it. The money is a score keeper and the VA does not learn. I’d like to skip the board because it is there to wait for veterans to die, and changes one life at a time. I would like to change a hundred thousand at a time, and get the proof out about brain damage and deformities from damaged DNA of all Vietnam Vets, not just female and their offspring. I was done dirty like so many others, but I have the evidence to push it through if we can get an attorney on our side. Many of these PTSD VICTIMS have actual brain damage and the VA has the proof hidden. I will write MaryAnn, but they have told me they have sent me all they have, on the CD. That is completely false. They have no pay records, no morning reports, no record of my exact location, but I do have a few conflicting travel records, being assigned on verbal authority. They just don’t want me to know any facts. Do any readers know what AR 635-40 is for? Who gets a PEBLO? I did not return to my unit, but was medivac’d to Japan for more testing. Those results have also always been withheld.Thanks Buck

Buck. The records are locked away. They have not been shredded, they are just being withheld as they stated in two different letters in 2015 and 2017. I can not accept that the only lab work available is from my hospitalization in Vietnam, GAS, Group A Strep. After my return from Vietnam there is No mention of kidney pain, pruritus/extreme itching, extremely low blood pressure, eye pain, migraine headaches, the acne/chloracne, back and bone pain, broken tailbone, and hardly any mention of the disabling abdominal pain, gastrointestinal problems, prostate pain, the peripheral neuropathy, insomnia. From what I read, and if the White House can’t do anything, then perhaps I can get the malpractice suit going. They denied the records that were created on the base where I was standing, while I was there. Those are the ones I need, and hold the X-rays, blood smears showing High Dioxin Levels and what ever else, and the P-3 should have been a P-4, and they knew it. I will answer again. victor ray

Buck. Let me try this. Ok, this shows what and when. There was enough back pay total to pay my hospitalization insurance for one year. I have to carry if for my wife, because our plan is under my retirement so I pay about 10k annually, then have to meet deductibles. Some just say it didn’t “happen in service” or “not service Connected” or “I did not show I was unemployabile”, or “I did not complain while in the service, or was not treated or diagnosed with any disease illness or Injury and there is no record of it”. Those records don’t exist, they say.

I took pictures of the disabilities but they won’t load on here, Huh! Sorry

Buck. I will post what I have handy, but I think I see where this might go. As far as the unemployability I think the first time I filed I was 50% and the last time maybe 70%. I thought I would get it because I was on full disability, and had been since April 2, 2010 which was about 6 years by then. I retired 6/7 months earlier because I could not work at all, and looking back I had had several strokes a year or 2 earlier, but they didn’t put me down, so I shook them off. I got to where I could not do anything without being wore out, so I retired in 2009. So I had strokes but didn’t recognize them but couldn’t work so I retired September 1 2009. April 2 2010 I had a big stroke, affecting both legs, entire left side and lost complete vision in left eye (total black with thin white line at top). Drooling, paralyzed face, slurred speech, but refused to go to the hospital and went to bed. Nexr day I did go to the emergency room because of lingering effects. That when they discovered it was big and bad, and just had a miracle. The stroke was on left side, total occlusion in left carotid artery, atherosclerosis through out, but had basically a good recovery. I could not write in cursive, no short term memory, things like that, but things have improved somewhat in those areas. I watched YouTube to learn to write again. Love YouTube. I retired on regular pension but had to take a penalty. I did not have a medical diagnosis saying I could not work and it never occurred to me to even try, because I had enough years in and wanted to work part time to make up the difference. It seemed to be a good plan, but I got weaker and couldn’t. Then another stroke in 9-2-10. I filed and got SSDI first time after they got medicalrecords. When I turned 66 years old they put me on regular retirement, and I guess that’s the law, even though you are still disabled. I hope that’s not too confusing. I filed for CUE too because “If I would have been given my records while on active or in 1983, the outcome would have been 100% in my favor and granted.” The VA knows this, but there is evidence in my records that show brain damage from Agent Orange I am almost 98% sure. Our PTSD as we know it maybe much worse than the VA admits. They had no clue what caused my migraines either, but I had the very first stroke in service, six months after Vietnam, the same time I had prostate pain real bad. I tested negative for syphilis everytime (first time in Vietnam), but I did test positive for Group A Streptococcus with Pharyngitis, but was never treated properly. I was sick with it for months. I had an order when I left Vietnam stating I needed “OVER 120 DAYS” Recovery Time to stabilize, but I never did. In Alabama, the doctors had never seen a living person with blood pressure that low, lol. 2 years ago it was 227 over something. Well, here are some information pics.

I had asked for a face to face DRO AND AFTER 2 years, the DRO called me and ask if I would settle for a review of my records review because she could get to it much faster, a couple months as opposed to a year or so. I was a fool and agreed, and found out just how corrupt they all are, especially in St. Louis. It has to be the most corrupt of all. They have the records, the VSOs, and most all of them are corrupt, imo. St. Louis isn’t unique though. Most of the VAROs seem to trash the truth, the records, or hide them, and not one department can communicate with another without a form from the FOIA Office. I had to get a form filled out so that my mental health doctor could call my claims assistant on the phone and it had to be signed, ok’d and given to the doctor. That took a day and involved about 4 people. The 310 day wait for the DRO was about 800 days when she called, and I didn’t think they were scamming me AGAIN. Surely this time they would be honest, but absolutely not. Liars, all of them. Today they called and I asked about my claims being expedited because I can’t see that the board expediting the claims made one day difference. She said the reason is that you have to ask the VA also to expedite it due to terminal illness, homelessness or 80+ years old! Even after the BVA agrees that they will do it. WTF? No one actually knows what they are doing, it seems, especially the VSOs. I said wait, DAV just expedited a vet in his 30s that was denied PTSD ONCE already, but DAV in St. Louis got his records for him, got his knee pain awarded as “pain in motion”, and I know he wasn’t homeless and not even 40 yrs old. To top that off, DAV hired him, and he now sits beside his VSO, that got his service connection awarded with his retropay and it wasn’t a week. The Army lied about my records or I would have been retired in 1971. They were withholding my records even then, and again in 83, then from Feb. 2012 to present. That DRO came across as nice, and i’m Pretty sure I got the hospitalization records from Vietnam to her before their decision, but still got “IU” denied and the rest. This last time I didn’t get a reason for Amyloidosis being denied. All it says is “ Service Connection for Al Amyloidosis is denied”, and that’s it. Not another word. I had swallowing problems, swollen ankles and legs, bone pain in the legs, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, extreme fatigue, blood in urine, kidney pain, numbness, dizziness when I stood up, bruising easy, gastrointestinal problems and on and on, but they used the “ Chloroquine Rule” as the reason for all of this to avoid that dirty word “Al Amyloidosis “. They were “contemplating litigation” before I left Vietnam, and that’s created this mess. The deceit to keep it hidden, and lies to cover it up and out of public scrutiny cost me a lot. Everything, and my offspring too. I still can’t believe it’s been 100% deceit for my whole adult life. The lady asked if I was “Black Ops”, and I said no, but I had a top secret clearance and CIA was everywhere around me. I think I was part of an experiment. It is all way to crazy, too unexplainable, too hush hush, my conditions too ignored, the DA3349 with P-3 profile too ignored, the second medical board too quick, too secret, too aggressive, no PEBLO or any assistance, no records, no advance notice, no medical records, nothing. This should probably be a big story, but I never wanted any publicity, but am on the verge of wanting it, just to get some attention to speed this up a bit. Well, i’ll See what they do, and how honest they treat me now. Next time I call in I will be better prepared, and on a good phone. It’s usually great, but I could hear echo and feed back from their end. Oh, here’s the DAV expediting a vets claim article. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it, just saying DAV plays the favorites game because i’m Much older I guess. Ok, many Thanks Buck.

Got it Buck. as many of so called exams I had, you would think they would examine me. Their main concern was, “did you drive your self here?” I said “yes, I am not completely helpless, yet.” I will be sure on the wording too as they are politically correct that “indicates” and “appears to be” have nothing in common. Like James said, when the right person listens things happens. I got 10 times more advice yesterday than I ever got at one of the medical board proceedings. One was like a surprise party. Open the door and hues what, it’s a board to see if we keep you or get rid of you. It wasn’t funny though. Thank you victor ray

Buck. I have set up the doctor appointment already, and will talk to him with the medical records in front of him, what I have including military. That’s in a couple weeks. Also I have called the White House hotline and they generated a case number, and someone will be in contact within 21 days. I hope to hear good news, but with them falling under the Deliberative Process Privilege, it may take some litigation, but I hope it does NOT go to litigation, or I will have to go for malpractice, from what I read. My claims are not as cut and dry like most claims because they never determined the cause of the conditions, but knew it wasn’t an allergy to Chloroquine, but that was the only way out for them. They pushed me out and on to someone else to worry about. I have the information you put down and wish this would resolve everything, but I can only hope. I’ll do this Buck and ask him to do these things. It will just have to wait now. Hopefully soon, it will resolved. Thanks for everything. victor ray

Buck, Boots on Ground is the easiest part of my claim, and there is no doubt about it, or my hospitalization, with the papular rash around my eyes, rash on ears, and neck. I got a Register number in Vietnam, and got on the AO Registry in 1983 (as far as I know), and had an exam, because they sent me a letter too. The dr told me I had “Atopic Dermatitis “ and my lungs were spotty and to quit smoking. I quit a hundred times but officially quit about six years ago. I developed Lung problems after Vietnam and the ETS physical documents that fact as chronic at 20 years old. The 1983 exam left all that out, and only said the finding was “Atopic Dermatitis with Generalized Pruritus”. The VA said the condition the exam found has not in any way to do with any condition found in my military service so I was denied all SC. They totally ignored the Army doctors report of “ Flexural Atopic Dermatitis “, discovered at the 24TH EVACUATION HOSPITAL on May 25th 1971, along with abdominal cramps and Large Wheals on the body. A doctor said Flexural Atopic Dermatitis is in the flexible parts is all, like elbows, behind knees and I have the record from that exam on 5-25-71. I sent in four letters from all my siblings that grew up with me stating that I never had a skin issue, never seen by a doctor for any skin condition, and never mentioned any skin condition before Vietnam. The VA knows all this. My claim was sent from St. Louis to Atlanta Georgia, Nebraska, Texas, and I think Ohio the last time. Unbelievable, and Atlanta is where they fired a lot of rating officers for setting up vets disability payments going to phony direct deposit accounts, and the vets getting scammed. The VA paid the rater who used the vets info showing approved but the rater sent a denial letter. So so much corruption. They called me to tell me I got an increase, but my file wasn’t even in the system yet, and I had no rating, and never did up to that point. A rater scammed the government, but the government didn’t want to hear about it when I reported it. I had another Registry Exam in April 2014, because I wanted the 1983 claim reopened. That doctor refused my surgeons medical report after my stroke, that I had Coronary Artery Disease and Atherosclerosis. He would not accept it nor the report of 24 intentional tumors I had removed (which proved environmentally acquired, not hereditary) after they were tested, and luckily non cancerous. He refused most all the evidence fo everything even actually raising his hand up and hollaring STOP, I have heard enough, and refused the rest, and I wrote him a paper letter telling him about it too, for the record. He was a liar and still works. Test results showed Low HDL of 33 or 28 I requested another one six months later because they discovered I have a calcium score of 958 four years ago, which makes me 29 times more likely to die from a massive heart attack than most, and contributes to my chest pain. I take Plavix to thin the blood and hopefully prevent more clots and strokes. I bet I have had at least 6 or more strokes when I think back. Mrs Richardson-Jackson refused saying it wouldn’t change anything anyway. I thought when something new was discovered, you were entitled, but I am in Kansas City jurisdictions, which says tons. I will look into the environmental testing, and I already know the abdominal tumors were environmentally acquired, so maybe they can see that, the skin conditions, Neuropathy and figure it out. Thanks Buck victor rayRay

Buck. You are correct. I had written Sen, Claire McCaskills office and she had an assistant look into my records. Unfortunately they didn’t do well, basically nothing. She has 5 offices staffed all over and it took a year plus to hear from her. I did call the White House hot line, and the fellow I talked to apparently did not know what he was suppose to do. That guy did not belong there, and getting him to reply to the conversation was like pulling teeth, hard. Yes, no, and I don’t know. i even emailed then Secretary David Shulkin several times, and once got a call back from a staff member who offered to try and get my missing records, but I never heard from her or received anything, even acknowledgement. The vets.gov site said there was 208,000 vets ahead of me. I wrote and ask to be advanced on the docket because the Army deceived me in 1972 saying my records had been lost in transit preventing me from filing for disability before being discharged, the VA refused to release them again in 1983 when I officially filed, and since 2012, I have filed over a dozen FOIA REQUESTS, with a little success, getting some hospital records showing me there as an inpatient for 28 days straight in Vietnam, Japan, and USA. INPATIENT in RVN for 21 days before medivac’d out. I was told they found good and sufficient cause to advance me, but my place in line never moved. The VFW is full of it and want you off of the phone. I don’t believe I was advanced at all. I think you had it correct. I have done most of those first things mentioned, but with no success. Senator McCaskill, Secretary Shulkin did nothing. The White House hot line was a failure, and VSOs were worthless. I will call the White House again and try to find the “Joe “ mentioned by James. I al also going to revisit my doctor and ask him point blank if in his opinion, is is likely that my issues are due to the herbicide exposure in Vietnam. That’s what is hard because they don’t even know what it is. They’ve heard of it, that’s it! I “do” have some sense of relief too though, so calling in was a great stress reliever, and I will call in again periodically. Thanks again Buck, victor ray

Buck. I got through, but had a terrible connection with lag in timing, but I’m sure it was my end plus it was a cel phone. Next time it will be my land line. Great guys and great information too. Many things I did not know, and your hosts were awesome. Thank you for recommending it, and I will be calling again, for updates, and more great discussion. They really give you some encouragement, hope, and I wish I had called sooner. The VFW SAID I JUST HAD TO WAIT MY TURN, but if they would have given me my records like I ask 47 years ago, I wouldn’t have to be messing with this mess now. Gerald, John, and James were a pleasure to talk to. Thanks again My friend. And Berta. I didn’t realize it was you do to my connection, losing some of your appearance. Thank you and hope to hear you again soon. victor ray

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