ptsd Vet Threat To Va Gets

[Berta]

via alamostation (Jim)email (ALLVETS) and from Military.com

(A word to the wise; be careful on how you word your communications. Looks like both parties here went a tad overboard in their reactions.

Jim)

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Vet Jailed for VA Threat

Associated Press | July 20, 2007

BATON ROUGE, La. - A veteran was accused of sending the Department of Veterans Affairs a threat to "explore my homicidal ideations" because VA managers rejected his claim for benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.

The veteran, Mandell Croxton, must stay in jail until his trial, U.S. Magistrate Christine Noland ruled Wednesday. No trial date has been set.

Federal public defender Jean Faria said she would submit a request by Friday for Croxton to be evaluated to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. Faria agreed to the prosecutors' recommendation that he remain in custody.

Faria did not return a call Thursday from the Associated Press.

A July 11 criminal complaint accuses Croxton of sending threatening communications to the manager of the Veterans Service Center in Nashville, Tenn.

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"You have exactly 10 working days from today to get an award letter out to me stating that the VA is awarding me my claim at a rate of no less than 65 percent," an e-mail allegedly said. "If not, I will explore my homicidal ideations." Ideation is a clinical term referring to thoughts or inclinations.

If convicted, Croxton faces up to five years in prison.

Croxton first submitted his claim in August 2004; it is still being appealed after several denials, VA Special Agent John Ramsey wrote in the complaint.

He said Croxton sent three complaint e-mails to the VA in May and June, then the threat, sent July 2 to Jerry Mitchell, manager of the Veterans Service Center in Nashville.

The case file on the federal court Web site does not give Croxton's age or details on his military service. He gave a Baton Rouge Volunteers of America address and phone number as his own.

(From Military.com on the internet: http://www.military.com/earlybrief/0,,,00.html

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[carlie]

Guess things turned out real lucky for me as, VA has in their printed documentation:

Veteran has been on VA property stalking a VA doctor, with a loaded weapon ----------------

I DO NOT SUGGEST THAT ANYONE ELSE DO THIS EVER !

hmmmmm, wonder if that is part of my problems with favorable adjudication of some issues ? ? ?

Hope this helps a vet.

carlie

[Tbird]

never a good idea

seriously if you are having those kind of thoughts get yourself to an hospital emergency room and tell them

do not threaten anyone ever

work your claim

seek help

but never ever threaten anyone

my two cents worth

Guess things turned out real lucky for me as, VA has in their printed documentation:

Veteran has been on VA property stalking a VA doctor, with a loaded weapon ----------------

I DO NOT SUGGEST THAT ANYONE ELSE DO THIS EVER !

hmmmmm, wonder if that is part of my problems with favorable adjudication of some issues ? ? ?

Hope this helps a vet.

carlie

[Pete53]

Well you just read a classic of what not to do. The people who work at VA are already scared to death of PTSD Veterans. Don't give the VA the opportunity to screw you cause they will.

That does not mean that you have to act like a door mat either.

I suspect that this Veteran is going to be locked up for a few weeks.

[Josephine]

I know the craziest thing that I ever emailed was when my husband picked up a copy of that slanderous C&P by those two quack psychiatrist.

I sent an email to West Virginia and told the Service Manager that I would like to take those two Psychiatrist over to that famous high bridge in West Virginia and put them on a Bungee Cord and see if they developed a " Personality Disorder".

I wasn't sure of how that may be taken so I hurried and sent an email that I didn't mean them any harm.

Josephine

[Testvet]

I know I got mad over the years at the VARO and the garbage they were doing and I wrote a lot of letters but I never threatened anyone, I was mad yes, stupid no.....the old saying about making a federal case our of it, is YES they will and will this help the vet get the claim settled any sooner? NO I am sure his paperwork is at the bottom of the file cabinet now and the time in jail will not help the vet or his family never a good idea to make this type of action communicated at all vocal or written

[SLEDGE]

Been there, done that.

It was 8 years prior to my favorable decision on PTSD.

My response to not getting any treatment for PTSD was re-invented by the VA into a bomb threat.

The primary goal of the VA is to screw vets out of their benefits.

Coming in a very close second is 'covering their asses'.

In the only productive conversation that I ever had with a government wiener, he sent his secretary out on a break and told her to call in before coming back to the office.

He said that they do that whenever their security is in question and that I was considered to be a threat.

The VA had screwed-up my C-File and he helped to straighten out the rather stupid and obvious error.

Since then, he won't even agree to talk to me.

Now, whenever they see me coming, they hide.

I guess my cane looks like a single-shot shotgun.

sledge