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Alex
Against the possibility that VBA will be looking into the stressors behind PTSD in noncombat vets, I have been advising guys whose claims that were awarded 100% for PTSD after 1999, but without military verification of their stressors, to get these stressors verified from military records. For vets without a CIB/CMB.Combat Ribbon/.Purple Heart/Star w/v, etc., what you told the psychiatrist about wht happened will not do.
These military records do not have to mention you by name. If you wee in "E" company, the battalion said that elements of "E" company received hostile fire, that is enough under the Suozzi and Pentacost CAVC cases.
Most informatuion to verify stressors is in National Archives II or in the USMC history center in Quantico (where they give it to you on CD-ROM), mostly in the report of daily logs that most units kept.
My experience has been that National Archives stuff costs about $500 a box for a yaer's worth of records ( I live about ten minutes away so I just go over there myself), but a lot of guys from out-of-town can get their Congressman/Senator to get these records for free. USMC has neer charged me for one of their CD-ROMs
If you get miltary verification of your stressors, be sure that the get into your file so that VBA can say "Not this one" when they come to it.
Do not go to sleep on this one. It'ds a good way not to lose $2,400 per month or so.
Alex
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