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  1. It could be that this setup applies. If the veteran receives a check on march 1, but he passed away sometime in feb., the check must be returned to the va. The deceased vet cannot sign his check as he is deceased. If the wife signs the check that is forgeing his name. Even power of attorney does not allow her to sign his name in this situation. Once the va receives the check back they will prorate the amount and send another to her in her name and she can sign and cash this check. Same way with direct deposit, the bank will freeze the amount of the check and contact the va. If you receive a paper check on the envolope around the name should be a printed statement that says something like (post office if this person is deceased, write date if known and return to sender). The check will then be prorated & sent back in her name if she is entitled to part of a month.
  2. Sgt Mac, send me a personal messenger with your email address. I may have some information that will help you on your claims. Thanks Jerry
  3. Senate Passes Welcome Home Day Week of March 29, 2010 A resolution introduced by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, encouraging communities across the nation to establish "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day" was passed unanimously by the Senate. The resolution designates March 30, 2010, as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day," to honor the return home of our armed servicemembers after serving in Vietnam. For more information on the War in Vietnam, including educational materials, visit the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the Virtual Vietnam Archive, the Public Broadcasting Service's Battlefield Vietnam webpage, the Vietnam War Bibliography, and the Gravel Edition of The Pentagon Papers. Find ways to support and honor U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who protect our security and freedom. Visit the Military.com Support our Troops
  4. vmo, you are correct sorry. I was speaking in general terms. They are navy corpsman assigned to the Marines. All marines are trained in infantry tatics where in the army, only the infantry are trained in infantry tatics. Well thats not true also, cav soldiers, strkyer, the apc soldiers, I am sure there are others also. Any marine can receive the car except maybe the corpsman who would receive the CMB
  5. Army medics get the CMB if they meet the requirements. The only army soldiers that receive the CIB are infantry soldiers (mos 11B),(I think a few special forces soldiers also receive it- in Iraq army soldiers training Iraq soldiers can get it regardless of what their mos is- not fair but that the new army). The rules say that for infantry to receive the CIB you have to be in direct face to face combat with the enemy. You can't get the CIB if say you are on one side of a perimeter that is not attacked while the other side of the perimeter is attacked with you looking in the face of the enemy then the attacked side would get the CIB & the other side would not. My experience with medics is they have to actually treat someone that has a serious combat wound received under rifle fire or such to receive the CMB. If you are on patrol & someone trips over a log gets a sprained ankle & you treat him, no award is given. You have to pretty much be ducking bullets to receive. Now to add to that, medics pretty much only stay assigned to a infantry unit for maybe 2 months. Medics rotate between the hospital, base camp aid station, clinics, field aid stations & infantry units. Then consider that when a certain rank is reached, they become supervisors & do not go to the field. Also consider that within around 2 months assigned to a infantry unit, a medic may have R & R time, could be sick, would probable have a stand down time of 7 to 10 days (this is in base camp resting) could be on a quick reaction platoon not called into service & could not see any direct combat action while in the field. So a medic could be in the field & never see the action required to receive the CMB. Marine infantry receive the CAR, not sure what their medics receive. With the awards you named, you still have to provide a stressors with proof. Having a CIB does not indcate that you had a stressor. A CIB can be given for a fire fight, but if no one on either side was hurt & the enemy pulled back & broke contact. I don't think that would be a ptsd stressor. A doctor still has to say you have ptsd from a tramatic event. Certain Purple Heart are good for ptsd & some not so good. All stressors are verified in one way or another. PH is the best if the award is very detailed
  6. Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Al is 76 miles from B'ham. Maxwell AFB is 87 miles and Maxwell-Gunter Annex is 87 miles from B'ham in Montgomery. If you are planning on using one of these commisssaries, get their phone number and call them to find out their days & hours to be open. Then call the I. D. card section & find out what paperwork you will need & their hours. Then you could do everything in one day. Have the cards made and then go shopping. I can say from my experience that the prices are not that much cheaper & you have to consider the time to drive & the cost of gas. But that is something you can determine after a trip or two. This will also save you the trouble of trying to find a national guard unit that might make you a I D card.
  7. I take it along with 1/2 tablet of lisinopril 20mg tab. It seems to work, I just hope so for the long term.
  8. Don't think national guard or reserve will do commissary cards only id cards for unit members & dependents. Besy way to go is Redstone Arsonal in Huntsville or the air force base in mongomery. Call before you go to find out hours.
  9. Is there not a minimum number of miles you have to drive to receive travel pay? I want to say it is over 50 miles round trip, but I am not sure. If the facility is in the same community or a nearby by community, I don't think they pay. Also your car may shown 27 miles one way, but that is not how the va figures mileage. They have their own system to caluate mileage and it may only shown 23 miles one way. Sometimes you have to be thankful for what you get and try not to go overboard for too much. The most a round trip should cost you is less than $8.00 & as little as $5.00. That is not going to break anyone, unless they don't own a car. If the va does not pay you mileage, then you can alway claim it as a deduction when you file your 2010 tax returns. Maybe you could schedule treatment for both of you on the same day as you said you also receive treatment there. I know some vets who travel 50 to 70 miles round trip & are not given travel pay because the va says it is in the same community or area.
  10. Vperl, no thank you. I have my own, but if you wish to borrow some, I can arrange it. Do you work at the post office? I am sure Testvet does & looks like billy2 does also. I also have trouble getting my direct deposit to show up at the bank. I use Regions bank & I think alot of the delay is with them, even tho they deny it. I get my SS check in the mail on the 4th Wed. for the last 2 months I get it on the following thursday. I get my va check in the mail & it was late last month, did not get it today, but it's not the first. I think with the change in mail truck routes that it just takes longer for the mail to reach it destanation. My CS check is direct deposit & it is usually a few days late. I hate it when the 1st is on or around the weekend. Thanks
  11. Iraqvet, does the va pay for kidney stones. Please give more information Thanks
  12. Wow, lots of different points of view & experience. I can add more confusion with my history. Drafted in the army in 1967, served in Vietnam & recieved the purple heart. Discharged after 2 years active duty & received a DD 214. It did show 1 PH but not some other awards received. Went into 2 years ready reserve, then 2 years standby reserve. At end of 6 years received honorable discharge certificate. In 1978 joined the army reserve, being prior service, no basic or ait training needed. Did change mos's several times, but classes held during monthly drill at reserve center. Part of unit activitaved for OJE for bosnia in 1996. Recieved no DD 214 from army reserve. Put on active duty for 9 months, then rec'd orders back to army reserve, at this time rec'd another DD 214. It contained infomation from the 1st DD 214 & then awards & infomation from 1969 until then went on the DD 214. Retired in 2000 with no DD 214. So I would say my experiences shows that army reserve soldiers on active duty for TRAINING do not receive a DD 214, a certificate for completion of training yes. If active duty for training, I think most bases will take your reserve I. D. card & give you a active duty I.D. card, but this is just so you can move around on the base. After the trng. they take the card back & give you the reserve card back. It could be that the navy, air force & army all have different policies on this subject. Some people may be confusing orders, certificates, DD 214's & discharge certificate with each others. Before he could enlist in the active army, he would have to be discharged from the army reserve, but he would not receive a DD 214 for this. When leaving active duty, they do sit down & go over your discharge paper with you. When you leave the reserve they just tell you if you have time left owed to the reserve & you get orders saying you completed your time or orders putting you in the irr (reserves). Only he or his immediate family can get a copy of his military paperwork from St. Louis. It shows all his orders, awards & certificates. It will also show his DA 2 which shows all of his military history. I will say that they have been known not to have a complete set records. For army people, all records end up at st louis. Now when you file a claim with the va, st louis sends the records to the va to keep if a claim is approved. St louis may or may not keep a copy. When I retired, my records got torn up in the mail & months later, a package from a reserve unit in Fl. arrived containing my medical, DA 2 & other records. They never made it to st louis, so I just keep them. From about 1997 to 2005, on 3 occassion I rec'd packages from st louis containing my original records, saying they did not need them any more because they had copied the information onto disk for storage. I did not know that there was a second award for the NDSM. I though there was only one award. Anyway because of fires, storms & so on it is a good thing to make copies of all your military paperwork & give to a relative. I made copies of all my military paperwork & put them in a binder with tabs showing orders, award certificates & so on & gave to my daughter to keep. Now I am working on putting it all on a dvd disk.
  13. cadillacjack305 How do you get your right to own firearms back. Simple, give up your 100% rateing for PTSD. You can't have it both ways.
  14. were was your hearing protection. The navy does not let anyone even get close to aircraft that are running there engines without hearing protection. You will not get tinnitus from this amount and type of noise.
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