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on a SF-180??

For medical, benefits ect;---how to word it and what content?

"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life."


10% 1992

10% 1995

10% 2000

10% 2005

10% 2010

10% 2015

2015- found out that I have Post Concussion Syndrome(not SC), Stationed at contaminated installations

Still at that great 10% !!!!!!

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Just check the blocks indicating the records you are requesting. You may also state "All Records." Be sure to sign and date it at the bottom. I sent one in back in March for a veteran and he got it back last week because it wasn't dated. Now his request will go back in line behind the others. They process them on a first come first served basis unless you have a legit urgency need for your records. Hope this helps. Others will chime in.

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Just to add, I always suggest ALL medical Records and ALL Personnel Records and in one case, I told the vet to ask for ALL disciplinary records.

He was given a Captain's s Mast while in the USN, and thrown into the brig on the ship for a few days, ,with no other discipline problems. That Captains Mast.,I helped him prove, was the first manifestation he had, inservice, of manic bi polar.

He won at the BVA , after many many years and his retro was almost a quarter of a million.

There was a lot more to it than that......the SF 180 I had sent him sat in his bedroom drawer for almost a year before he actually filled it out and sent it in.

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GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !

When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief

Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was

simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."

Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.

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Can you help me with it Berta? I would sure appriciate it!!! :biggrin:

"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life."


10% 1992

10% 1995

10% 2000

10% 2005

10% 2010

10% 2015

2015- found out that I have Post Concussion Syndrome(not SC), Stationed at contaminated installations

Still at that great 10% !!!!!!

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