ptsd Entitlement For Service-Connection For Ptsd Is Reopened/ The Entitlement For Service Connection For Mood Disorder With Ptsd Is Awarded

[johnwreno]

I had my BVA hearing in Portland Or, yea leader of the scandals,back in June after a 5 yr wait from the time I filed the appeal.I was granted the reopening of service connection for PTSD because I finally had received the US Army Criminal Command file 85 pages deep and mostly blacked out from my being kidnapped by 5 fellow members of my own unit at Ft Bragg NC back in 1979. I had a C& P hearing in 2008 and was denied because some idiot said I had a history of childhood abuse and my adoptive father spoiled...WTH? I guess it's perfectly ok to kidnap someone who has these problems even though it is so far from the truth it's not funny , As usual the incompentint employees of the VA put what they want in my file and say anything they want in order to get me a behavioral flag in my file because I don't put up with liars and will get in anyones face about lying to me, I don't care who you are.

Now I'm waiting to be rated and to get my back pay.since the entitlement to reopen the Ptsd claim was approved my attorney says it will go back to my original date of filing which is 2004

This is suppose to be expedited as was the BVA judges decision since they are working on appeals filed in 2011/2012 but still have not heard anything since the appeal determination letter.

I'm so tired of this hurry up and wait..I have had nothing but problems with the Portand/Vancouver Va and am pretty much only allowed to see my Primary care dr. I'm not allowed in buildings on post and am suppose to have an armed guard with me when I'm there.WHATEVER. I'm on a HUD/Vash voucher for my housing and with the measly 720 I get a month from SSI I have money one day a month and then sit and stare at the walls the rest of the month

Problems with the va here are numerous from being selected for a job in laundry and being turned down because I didn't sign up for selective service because why? I WAS IN THE MILITARY then turned down a second time because they hired full time the same two people they hired when they denied me the job the first time and said I wasn't qualified, but who do you think trained the same two people. I was the only CWT in 12 yrs to run all equipment and the floor but I wasn't qualified.again WHATEVER I was needing rotator cuff surgery and was over 900 on a waiting list for surgery and told they would farm it out after waiting a year I was told that I wasn't service connected so wait another six months. My housing case manager just put in my file that I'm a practicing johovah witness, hell I cant even spell it , and I had a bible study every week at my place of worship and it was a big part of my life. And since my case manager lied to me and called me up after I set up a mental health apt to have PTSD paperwork questioniar filed out by a dr for my BVA hearing I told him he was housing and to stay out of my medical business and that he was not allowed to come to my house or call me. So the brain surgeons had another meeting and I was passed off to the state level and told the va would not call me if I don't call them.

Can anyone tell me why I signed up for this run around. Especially since most of the people I was willing to die for there freedom don't deserve it.

anyway what is the process of rating me and the length

There is a lot more but my blood is boiling now so I'm going to stop before I say something that can and will be used against me.........lol

any advice would help, sorry about the spelling

[Stretch]

John,

I had an Abdominal Aortic anyurism that I had stented, thanks to Carlie an angel on Hadit, recently I have had 5 strokes. Now I have to go for a lung biopsy to find out if I have cancer. From what I have read Cancer is likely, but I don't give a crap I will go on giving the little that I have to offer.

All I can say is hang in there and save a little for those that have a little care left in their lives. All is not hopeless regardless of the abuse most of us have suffered especially from this corrupt system called the VA. They don't win as long as you are living. Like John999 says, "I am going to make them pay". This is the same way I feel.

Take what you can and leave the rest.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Stretch

[Navy04]

John sorry to hear of your hard times. I spent the last few years feeling as you are. I was in a mental hospital in 2012 for 3 months, and I felt so lost and pissed at the Navy and the Govt. Most days I continue to feel this way, if not for my wife and kids. As Vets, we all get so tired of giving our all while in service or War, and yet when we get disabled or sick, the Govt tosses us out to the curb like todays trash. We just have to keep on fighting bud. We all have been at the bottom, and know that it will never get any worse then we have already experienced. God bless and we are always here for you.

[johnwreno]

I am just about to the point of giving the Regional Office a personal visit, then maybe they will understand why I have the Flags on my record here with the Portland Regional office I'm to the point I really don't give a F%&*'K who gets pissed off be it the director, the President, or anyone else that I see and tell them what I think about them.. Do your damn jobs and quit playing your games. 11 Yrs is BULLSHIT

EXPIDITED SERVICE Not forgotten about and lied to

[Navy04]

I have a claim that is at Prep for Decision for a bit, and it all drives us crazy, even if we do get good news in the end. The claims process just seems to move good at times, and horrible at others. My last 2 claims each completed in less than 4 months, will multiple complicated conditions claimed, which Waco RO does not have that good of a reputation.

[johnwreno]

Well fromwhat I hear the seattle RO is the slowest in the country, I mean with the documentation I have it really is a xxxxxxx no brainer was told that when I filed the claim in 2004 and it didn't take the bva judge long at all to see it either, The criminal command records are blacked out so much, that when I got them the VFW rep who use to work with me told me in the 20yrs hed been doing this he'd only seen 4 or 5 copies blacked out like that and they were covert ops in Nam, I was in peacetime at Ft Bragg

I honestly try keeping my cool but I'm at the point I just want to kill someone maybe a few someones just so they get it but that is not the way I really want to go out. And I don't know how they will even complete the remand exams because no va DR , specialist , mental health, housekeeping , janitor person will ever look at any of my conditons again. I don't use any services at or threw the VA anymore because it or more so ME is a powderkeg ready to blow, and after this claim now going into it's 11th yr I'm so alienated from the actually world that I should just go get me a life sentence and stay in Soiitary confinementdill I drop,becaus that is what my life is right now

[johnwreno]

Wanted to give a update to what has happened on my case

First off I got a call last Tuesday to set up a C&P exam for one of the issues that was remanded and that is for my compression fracture of T1/T2

Next I got a call the following day Wednesday about 10:30am from the Seattle RO and they said they had settled my claim.

They rated me 50% in 2008 and then in Sept 2011 increased that to 70% and a couple days later increased it to 100% because of TDIU.

It's a start since my Attorney is going to question the start date since it was originally filed in 2004, and also have the lung issues and back issues but at least the money will start flowing and making life a bit easier

To all who posted and gave me encouragement I thank you. This is something that has made me look at things I didn't ever think about. I'm thankful, and grateful for what I have got so far and I will be first to say that the 11 years I have fought this fight I never felt either and I had a gentleman tell me I was lucky NEVER over the last 11 years did I feel lucky, It has been a bit of a slap in the face of reality and I know realize I am lucky there are a lot of guys in the same boat and some like a good friend of mine aren't going to make it to see the end. For them it's too late which is a damn crime.

Again thanks everyone Never give up Never surrender