Compensation And Pension Service Bulletin

[Stretch]

The service bulletin is posted at svr-radio.com on prompting from Kurt Pressiman.......It is also posted in the AO Forum of Hadit.....

http://svr-radio.com/documentlibrary.html

Edited May 31, 2010 by Stretch

[Stretch]

This very important Veterans bulletin is also posted in PDF, for those that do not have Word, now in the document library.

[john999]

This Veterans Bulletin should be renamed "How the VA saves money at the veteran's expense". One thing that gets me is the part that says all claims must be in writing. How then is an inferred claim executed, and what would be the effective date? Inferred claims are made by the VA. The vet does not write up an inferred claim. What is the point of AO exam? Unless the vet knows that conditions identified are related to AO no claim is filed unless he does it in writing. The VA wants the vet to self DX himself as having a SC condition even if he reads at 5th grade level. If a ship were docked in Da Nang did the Navy ever give shore leave? Does the vet have to prove that? If they were docked at Vung Tao I can't believe sailors never got to go ashore. I guess the VA does not believe that wind could carry AO spray to a ship in a harbor in Vietnam. They can't be that dumb, but they can be that unjust. Cheating vets out of potential compensation is just SOP.

[Stretch]

Jeez, sorry the bulletin wasn't ready in PDF yet. It is still posted in Word doc format.

You are right John.

The VA has re-interpreted law that was written many years ago contrary to what that congress meant. Congress now has to go back and spank the VA with new legislation that has no wiggle room for the VA to deny.

If you tell the VA that many of the Aircraft, aboard carriers, BINGO'ed in Vietnam, the VA would have no idea what you are talking about. Many of our aircraft stopped, that is landed in Vietnam (BINGO) for maintenance or other purposes, then flew back aboard ship.

These aircraft were washed by hand as the water was not available.

We were only allowed 2 minutes of water in the shower as per ships Captains orders. The three minuted shower consisted of 1 min. to get wet, 1 min. (water off) to soap down, and then 1 min. to rinse. These were top command orders for all carriers, blue-water.

If the VA wants to get technical about this blue-water issue, then they had better start thinking that the entire US NAVY will be at issue with this sanitary problem of cleaning our own bodies during VN era. This is why Navy Personel have greater exposure problems than any other service.

[SLEDGE]

Well folks,

It seems that agent orange that was used in Nam was also used by every US installation

in Thailand.

However, we have to prove actual contact with the stuff by virtue of having guarded the wire area, base perimeter.

When a guard was assigned to us we were within 100 feet of the wire.

The guard qualifys to have been exposed but, we do not.

I could throw rocks over the wire from my ready area (Duty Station) for several months straight.

I can prove it, but I was not in the presumptive MOS.

Nobody had to mow the grass where we were.

sledge

[john999]

While the VA dithers vets die from AO. This is the plan. Wait for the Army, Navy, AF, Marines and even Coast Guard to die. What about merchant marines and contractors?

[Pete53]

The Army had Agent Orange on every post and they know it and so do we.