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Bravo, Georgia! I won about a year ago and have not come out of orbit yet! Thanks to Hadit.com. :D

This is a gathering of evidence by the rater to decide your case on. The rater can not decide in your favor or against you with out good evidence. Make sure the rater sees all evidence in your favor. Ask the examiner if they have read your c-file. Get copy of C&P exam and make sure your evidence is in there and going to be seen by the rater. If the evidence is not strong get an IMO. These test, opinions may carry the day. I had two C&P's and neither of the examiners were aware that I had an ENG that proved my case. When I told them that, they added it to the record. I won. Take copies of your evidence to the C&P. Be proactive. You are allowed to talk. What you say becomes evidence in your case. (be careful). :o The VA is and has been good to me. Yes, they make errors and blunders but most try to do right by veterans. I hate to say it but I would advise anyone to just get a IMO that proves their case. Then go to the VA doctors. It could be that the VA doctors are under pressure to give low medical ratings. I think they are suppose to look at all your medical records. Do they, probably not. ;) Make sure the rater sees you evidence. There is about 5 days- 2 weeks between the C&P and the raters desk. If your evidence is not in the C&P, file a statement in support of claim ASAP. Have your Vet rep hand deliver to your rater. Short & Sweet. Test that prove you claim, statements " I can't drive because of my medication" which is XYZ. A C&P is not Medical. It is Legal. If you have good evidence (and they see it) you will win. :P Good luck and thank you for your service.

Rickey. I went to Montgomery to find out what was going on with my claim. The VA guy said it was still at the raters. The AL Vet rep said it was still in development. Depressed I drove south on I 65. This did not calculate with what I had learned on Hadit.com. What I had learned of the process. When I got home, the award letter was on the table. It was still there the next day! http://www.hadit.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png' alt=':lol:'> Good luck Captain Rick.

I have had two claim decisions. After C&P Exam, both took about 2 months.

Congratulations LJ. Good to hear it. I have only been looking at the forum about a year. Seems there have been a lot of wins lately. Lake Belton sounds like a good move. Plenty of room there to contemplate the win. It will take a while. I have not "come down" yet. http://www.hadit.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png' alt=':lol:'> Congratulations, Bravo, Amen.

Well done troop. Enjoy.It will take a while to calm down. ;) Get your letter from VARO and go out to Maxwell and get your ID. Call ahead, was 2 hour wait when I went. Letter from VARO, Award letter, Marr cert for wife, Birth cert. for children.

This guy is not service connected at all. Has insurance. Need to have the VA doctors examine him for PTSD. Perhaps it would be better to get IMO on this? Then if positive have him go to VA for treatment and file claim then. I filed for PTSD myself and the first time I saw a doc was at C&P exam. Of course, I was low balled.He needs help and I need to get him into the program, regardless of a claim. Has HBP witch I think is related to the PTSD. Yes, it could be some other disorder, but will let the doctors say that. I think the IMO is the way to go.

Does someone have to be diagnosed with PTSD to see a VA doctor for PTSD?

Every time you download something it adds stuff to your registry. After a year or so you could go make a pot of coffee while the puter starts up. You might update Adobe because your computer told you to, and download several programs you did not want or ask for or even know you downloaded. If I sound like I know something about this, I don't. ;) My people got to Alabama by 1822. They were in Montgomery county then witch is only 30 miles or so from southern Perry county. Lee,Taylor,Pyle 1799-now.

Ron, it comes right up for me. Have you changed anything lately? I got a new Virus scan program and had a problem a while. I adjusted the popup blocker and that fixed it. ;) :( :P

Army Rangers and Airforce personnel stationed at Eglin AFB in Northwest Florida were exposed to Agent Orange. http://www.vva.org/veteran/1007/ao_spraying.html http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/...range/intro.htm

People are lazy, for the most part.I got SSD and 100%PT by doing as much of the work as possible, myself.I downloaded the forms I needed from the net, filled them out and when that form was for release of medical information from Doctors/ Hospitals I went to those places and sent in the information that the form ask for, with the form requesting that information. Same with employment history. In the case of SSD I did that on line. Most of the work is done once you type in your information. All they have to do is make a decision. 7 weeks! ;) The VA now offers online claim filing. I am sure that will shorten the process. Paper records will still be there but they will use the computer version to work on them. Put your self in their shoes. Joe blows file is the size of a dictionary. All you need to know is what Doctor No said.He types in Doctor No on his computer and it pops up in less than a second. That would make your claim go quick! Or he can look at that large file and decide to take a coffee break. May be slip your file back in the pile on the way to the break room. :(

I am just starting the process. We have not filed for anything yet.It will be in his SMR where he hurt his back and where he went to the mental doc.By the way, where he refused a direct order to get on a helicopter, that same helicopter crashed the next week killing all on board. He would have been on it. B) His back was hurt at 19 catching a bomb from rolling off a truck. He has worked all these years so we have a very weak case there. In this case I want it to be a matter of record even if he gets 0%, in case he has worse trouble later. Same with the AO exposed. He is 60. If we claim A O exposed will they test him for presumptive conditions? Or do we have to prove it before they test? B) He sure has the symptoms of PTSD, classic. If we file they will give him a C&P for that. If he sits down with a good head doctor, I believe he would be diagnosed with PTSD. I think that is his strongest case.He is 60 and his health is going down hill fast. He has real trouble with his HBP. Dangerous levels.The HBP could be secondary to PTSD?Thank you for that good information about Agent Orange in Panama Canal. "If you read my Thailand vet post- ". But of course, I read everything you post! B)

My brother was a munitions specialist stationed in Panama Canal USAF, around 1968-9.A small AF plane crashed on a bombing range where they had used Agent Orange. A team of MS had to go out with the crash investigative team as they were trained in "what not to mess with" in unexploded ordinance. He said the place was just covered in Agent Orange. B) He has the name rank and serial number of the people on the squad with him. Was good friends with a few and even has the phone number of one of them. He developed a skin rash then that he has today. Don't think he went to the doctor with it.In Thailand, Utapah (sp) AFB he caught a 500 Lb. bomb from rolling of the rack, by himself. Said they had had a bad batch and he did not want to take a chance it would not explode.He hurt his back and did go to the doc with that. He was on a c130(?) when a bulldozer came loose from it's straps in bad weather flight and threatened to shake the plane apart and got up and helped secure it. Developed a fear of flying.Refused an direct order to get on another flight and was sent to mental doctor for that. Tried to get them to let him come home on a boat rather than fly. He did go to the mental doc for that while in service. At his physical upon ETS he did mention his back and they gave him the option of getting out in a week if he signed medical release and he did. They said it may be weeks if he did not. B) I am sending off for his Service Medical Records now. Before the AF my brother was a neat freak, over achiever, Dobby Gillis type. I was Mannerd G Krebs. (not really, but compared to him). B) After the AF he was sort of a northern California survivalist type, malcontent. (Were from south Alabama). B) Jekyll-Hyde, 357 mag, attitude, political- religious malcontent. No Dobby Gillis.I was a medic with the abn Infantry in Vietnam. He was an Air Man http://www.hadit.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png' alt=':lol:'> in Thailand. His barracks was right behind the USO! But I think he has PTSD worse than I do. He is stronger than me. He just wants to get it to where he can go to the VA hospital for health. He would be in group 8 now. I think the Girl Scouts and Salvation Army are higher than that. B) He has HBP. 60 years old. Still working. (Work!!!!!! M G Krebs) O K Airmen, fall in!

Sir, I did not mean to sound Adversarial, I am in agreement with you. Life in prison may be worse punishment than death. I am more concerned with the deterrent effect on crime, public or privet execution has. I am a bit left and sometimes right of center. Lables don't work. The mechanism is in our laws because all politicians use to be lawyers and it is a make work project for lawyers.(my Opinion). :P Thank God we live in a country where we can have an opinion. If more people are against Capital punishment than for it, that is the way it should be. We need to vote on it. If I were on death row I would be filing all kind of law suets in hope of living as long as possable.