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I opened my case in Feb '08. In Jan '09, I received a denial notice. I promptly followed that up with an NOD, in the same month. In Sept. '09 I was sent an SOC, in Oct. '09 I filled out the Form 9 and sent it in. In July '10 I was told my case was ready to send to the BVA. My question is; How much longer before this process is complete?

I welcome input from anyone here at Hadit...

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Thanks guys,

My C&P are loaded with the "is likely than not to have" or the 50 percent stuff.

I got a letter fromt he VSMC stating "In reply to your inquiry, your file is with the rating specialist at this time - I just spoke with that person and you file is in there to be reviewed to prepare to be sent to BVA. It will go there as soon as possible provided that no other paperwork is sent in because that stops the appeal and has to begin again so please be patient".

Just keeping you all posted...

PS. Looks like she placed an advance on my case. We will see what that does...

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In what I am reading that you have quoted here vis a vis your posting 08 Sept at 10:51 or some such date and time, anyway, I am looking for nexi (nexuses or whatever) linking what you are claiming and what the past history of your disabilities actually are and I am not finding any nexus in your statements as typed-up concerning this post.

You do state:

"We all know working around Jet fuel and other hazardous chemical can have numerous effects on the human body."

Maybe WE all know this, but the VA does NOT know this (you'll not convince them of this unless you back up the above statement with medical evidence and a very good nexus, written by a qualified quack, linking all this together, yada, yada).

just sayin'.........................

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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Benzene is an agent used in JP-4 fuel.

The major effects of benzene are manifested via chronic (long-term) exposure through the blood. Benzene damages the bone marrow and can cause a decrease in red blood cells, leading to anemia. It can also cause excessive bleeding and depress the immune system, increasing the chance of infection. Benzene causes leukemia and is associated with other blood cancers and pre-cancers of the blood.

I thought this is what the VA was for. My understanding is they are our Lawyers, and represent us, so it should be no problem for them to research and make the nexus connections for us. When confronted with the unknown, like a lawyer, they should ask. But, it should be nothing for them to see my Service Medical Records (SMR), which shows no anemic history prior to 1984. Look at my military job, and see what chemicals I might have encountered. If they can't find anything, then they should reach out to the appellant.

Larry, I do appreciate your incite, and you may be correct, this could be why it has taken as long as it has. In the aircraft maintenance career field we are in contact with some of the most hazardous chemicals on the face of the planet.

All my claims with the exception of three are from my SMR, and they are well documented, outlined, and highlighted. As far as a medical nexus, I don't have, but, these disorders are in my SMR.

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Why would a nexus be needed for items in your service medical records, while on active duty? Please, anyone, inform me. I understand if a private physician had listed my claims, I would need a nexus, but what I have posted comes straight out of my service medical records while on active duty...Please info me...

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Why would a nexus be needed for items in your service medical records, while on active duty? Please, anyone, inform me. I understand if a private physician had listed my claims, I would need a nexus, but what I have posted comes straight out of my service medical records while on active duty...Please info me...

Okay, I'll try.

You have to have a qualified opinion (not your opinion, but a qualified medical person's opinion) LINKING your problems as shown in your SMR's to the problems that you have at this time (a "nexus"). Just because you were, for example, treated for a "severe headache" at Great Lakes Naval Air Station in 1976 and now you suffer from migraines won't do it. You have to have a doc (etc.) state that the severe headache that you had in 1976 was a precursor to the migraines that you are suffering. Or somesuch drivel.

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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