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Can I request a Copy of my SMR's that the VA is in possession of? I don't mean the C-file but actual SMR's they have them hostage at the VARO, I seen them and want a copy before the DRO gets them. I have been told by the VARO once the file reaches the DRO officer I can't get any thing. Is there any way around this?? Thanks.........................

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just my experience....same dilemna, contacted my State Senator on Sept. 29th, 2007 after waiting since June 21st. Had all my sevice records in hand on October 11,2007. The whole kit and kaboodle...William n

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Free, your SMR's will be sent back to the NPRC when the claim is adjudicated (final). You can request, and receive whatever smr's are in the C-file at any time, as you already know. Chances are that the discharge physical is in there...just no one wants to look for it.

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Oh, okay. I was concerned when I understood someone to say yesterday that you don't get them with the C-file. I am hoping to get them.

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Free, your SMR's will be sent back to the NPRC when the claim is adjudicated (final). You can request, and receive whatever smr's are in the C-file at any time, as you already know. Chances are that the discharge physical is in there...just no one wants to look for it.
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I'm going to try like Hell to get them "SMRs" I have enough to stick a knife in the VA's heart by the end this month it will be a sword, you know to make sure the sword goes threw the back, and those SMR's are a smoking tank of injuries plus the ones I filed for, after years of active service , post boxing team, post karate team, and countless injuries I didn't file for such as hand, ankles, rotator cuff, knee's, head, broken foot, elbows, wrist. I have put my body threw torture and abuse in the Army, push the limits that has left me in the shape I'm in today, if I had it to do over again instead of learning how to fight after all the pain its left me with I'd wish i learn how to run track,lol..But its all in them SMR's, is a gold mine and they know it. If I got 10% on everything I'd be 100% with out the disabling injuries I have today ...

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I requested a copy of my SMR medical and dental to be copied to my C-File, back in 1973. This was a fortunate thing that I was lucky enough to do. My medical and dental records have at least 90% of the original files.

I got a copy of my C-File and these SMR's were in it. You might get lucky and they could already be in your C-File. The VA requested the same files from the NPRC and only got half of what I already had.

NPRC did send me about 50% of my personel records (Schools, discipline, advancement, and etc.). I had kept much of my record that the VA did not even have.

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Strech, I requested a copy of my c-file and they(VA) had my physical records I seen them with my own eyes. and I need then sum-guns. The VA screws me again. I will file for every injury I had ever had in 6 years. The game has just got harder with the play on words and ignoring current medical evidence and sending me a denial that was so transparent I could have made a window. I waited over 2 years for a denial that was a joke, it was a way of clearing off there desk to justify they are doing there job. I waited over 2 years for them (VA) to go threw my claim like a dose of exlax. I got a denial in less than week of then receiving file.

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