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kent101

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kent101 last won the day on November 20 2017

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  1. I think they put me on static because I've had a few disabilities over 10 years and few that are just over 5 years. Thanks.
  2. I've had a few disabilities that are over 10 years now and few that are just over 5 years. Thanks.
  3. I was due for the 5 year check up C&P exam late last year and never got anything in the mail for it. They don't forget do they? Are the C&P exams backlogged due to the pandemic? It's not hurting my benefits but I'm wondering when they're going to call me back in.
  4. I'm not over 50 yet but my father's 84 years old and did two tours in Vietnam as a Navy Seabee. I think for that reason I remember what he's told me about it and have better understanding than many my age. I have researched the Vietnam War. It was reading books about LRRPS in Vietnam that got me interested in joining the US Army. I'd say most about 5 years younger than me probably don't have much knowledge of Vietnam because by the time they got around 16 years old the USA was invading Afghanistan and Iraq. Many generation Z don't even know what the world was like before 9/11/2001.
  5. I was led to believe that I just had to suck it up and VA disability was something for people who were wounded in combat. 10 years after getting out I joined the VFW and started reading about appeals in their magazine. From there I applied and was denied. It took 15 years after I left to get my first rating and am now at 90%. 20 years later I got my DD214 changed since my rank was taken unjustly. I'm thankful that I didn't give up. I'm glad to hear you didn't give up either. No one but you knows what you went through to get where you're at. I hope your life is a lot better now.
  6. I was in the US Army. As for your issue of correction the way I look at it is all you can do is ask and hope they grant it. Since they didn't you can try to keep searching for records through archives and maybe FOIA to see if you can get more evidence.
  7. Thanks. I may get some help from them next time because the big VA hospital near where I live is a hassle driving to because traffic is crazy.
  8. It did take 4 years for the the request to be approved, but it was worth the wait. I had a DD214 reissued about a decade ago and that took about a year. I'm not sure why this last one took as long. I got the DD215 this time and was surprised because I didn't know what a DD215 is.
  9. What they did to me to lose my rank was messed up. I was overseas and got in trouble because this guy in platoon made a stupid decision that got us in trouble with the MPs. He was higher rank than me being and had better rapport with the platoon leaders. What he did is lie about the situation and try to put all the blame on me so he wouldn't get in trouble. We both were given a JAG lawyer. For a while the guy I got in trouble with was trying to tell me to wait until we got back to the states to get a lawyer and handle it back under our primary unit since we were temporarily assigned to another unit for deployment. I played along with him knowing he was trying to screw me over and kept telling him I'd wait. Then one day I was able to get some free time and ran off to the JAG lawyer and signed a confession since that meant I'd only get a field grade article 15 instead of possibility of a court martial back in the states. This meant the guy in my platoon was going to get a field grade article 15 too. My platoon leader was upset with me because they wanted to pin the whole mess on me when they could get back to our primary unit and handle me through the old boys club. We both got the field grade article 15, lost our rank and pay. The thing was I was pressured to confess to something I didn't do because they were threatening to court martial me. Even after all this was over when I got back to the states my platoon sergeant told me they were still thinking about court martial to mess with my head. I was really afraid they were going to try and harm me if we got into the field to do training after that. Thankfully I managed to get out of the platoon before that since I was being honorably discharged a few months later. Now here's the irony. The Army records center after decades gave me back that rank and put on my DD215 that I never lost my rank. On top of that I'm getting back pay. That guy who tried to screw me over didn't get his rank back. Now that's justice. It's been a long time in coming. I'm thankful to have lived to see it.
  10. Thanks. I was going to do it years ago and didn't because they made an appointment for me in another county and I lacked transportation at the time. Now I have the transportation I need to do it and will talk to my doctor about it.
  11. Thanks, I'll look into it soon. I wake up after about 3-4 hours and then do some breathing exercises to oxygenate and go back to sleep 3-4 hours.
  12. The evidence I sent in was my personal statements. They looked up my VA medical records and other records from service about why I got discharged. It seems they did a lot of the evidence gathering themselves. I'm not sure what their issue is with adding your time in Germany to you DD214 or somewhere else in your military paperwork. Did they tell you why they're declining to make the correction? If they give you a detailed reason why you may be able to look up their own laws and use that to help get it added.
  13. I had a VSO handle my appeal that took 10 years for me to win. Other than that I did all the paperwork on my own through ebenefits for VA benefits. The board of corrections I filled out the forms and mailed in with the evidence. I'll probably file for TDIU or go for sleep apnea since I'll need c-pap machine because I've had sleep apnea but haven't asked for benefits for it. I just got tired of C&P exams and felt satisfied with the help I've gotten so far.
  14. I had my DD214 changed to give me an RE-1 from RE-4, restore my rank to E-3 to E-1 and change of narrative for my discharge. I was originally honorably discharged. I got messed with by some people and in a bad situation in the US Army a long time ago. These record corrections were done with a waiver for the 3 year cut off date due to the nature of what happened to me. While I could be bitter and upset at the people who did these injustices to me, I'm not. I'm just thankful that after many decades that my honor was restored. I don't hate the US Army. Many good people serve, but some people do bad things to others in the US Army. Also, I got my VA benefits over 15 years later. I was just an ignorant young man that thought you had to be blown up to qualify for disability benefits when I got out and no one helped me, including my father who retired from the Navy. I'm thankful that it all worked out as I'm 90% disabled and suffered more than need be. It's amazing because I got everything I applied for and won my appeals too. If you're reading this and looking for hope then I say hope can exist even decades after you leave the service.
  15. I have a rating for a strange ear disease that is 0% and won't go up without an increase in hearing loss. Is temporary hearing loss enough to get an increase? Its called "autophony." where I hear my own voice very loud and can hardly hear anything outside of my own head. Is this temporary hearing impairment enough to get an increase in rating from 0% or does the hearing test have to show the hearing loss? They rated this disease analogous to perforated ear drum. Does getting rated with a disease open up any type of special treatments you can get for the disease? Such as going to a specialist out side of the VA since only a few specialist in the world try to operate on this type of disease?
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