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waynes
Hi everyone, I'm a newbe so be patient. My wife filed for claim last year for Military sexual trauma and got denied. She did introduce a stressor letter and all the evidence she had, also been diagnosed with PTSD. But as you know there is a lot of candy coating going on in the evidence, she didn't report the rapes that occured for fear of retalliaton. She does have newer evidence of being in the hospitol the times of the incident for suicide and being depressed. But nothing indicating rape. Her captin did write she was being harrassed by other soldiers because she was one of a few women on post. Plus some of where he said he would transfer her and/or get her out of the service.. she got out only after serving 10 months active duty. She has since, (after her last filing) gone to a rape and trauma program in Fla. sponserd by the VA, gotten 2 nexus letters for PTSD, and she is diagnosed as to having PTSD. She is on SSD. As I have read the VA should have given her a special form for the filing. I don't think she got a special form. The local VA helped her file and think that was one of the major problems, ignorance in their part. We have reordered info being more specific, but with 4 months to go to beat the dead line we're not sure wheather we'll get it in time or not.
She never got an appointment for C&P, I guess because it was denied. She's so stressed now from going through all the info, I'm just afraid she'll miss something she really needs. We did read once that the only way to refile was with new evidence, how do veterans keep the claims open and repeating the process for years? Theres only a certain amount of new evidence you can gather. Right now it's only what she can remember about it and the hospitol records plus all the records of being in and out of the hospitol for depression and suicide then and now. any help would be appreciated. thanks from two vets
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