COL Private RallyPoint Member 3432318 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> 2018-03-09T23:29:57-05:00 COL Private RallyPoint Member 3432318

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2018-03-09T23:29:57-05:00 2018-03-09T23:29:57-05:00 SGT Joseph Gunderson 3432347

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Haven&#39;t heard of it, but I seriously doubt that it is possible. Usually, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

2018-03-09T23:52:21-05:00 2018-03-09T23:52:21-05:00 CW3 Jeff Held 3432414

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I did the Fully Developed Claim (FDC) and did it on my own. The keystone to DRC’s is getting a great VSO. Otherwise Time was wasted.

2018-03-10T00:58:15-05:00 2018-03-10T00:58:15-05:00 SMSgt Lawrence McCarter 3432590

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The closest to that is a co-worker that is a retired Sgt Major from Army Special Forces, they screwed around for 3.5 years with Him He went to a function that the Secretary of Veteran&#39;s affairs for the United States was in attendance and cornered Him and gave Him a piece of His mind for the inaction, delays and BS and within 24 hours had His favorable decision. He was a Viet Nam Veteran and this was only about 6 years ago. It seems everyone has to fight the VA to receive anything from them and start low them keep fighting often for years. From what I can see as as CW3 Jeff Held said Here, get a great VSO to help You through the frustrating process and hope You get what You seek before You die. Before anyone ask, I&#39;m a Viet Nam Veteran but I&#39;m not a disabled Veteran Myself Just retired by putting in over 20 years service.

2018-03-10T04:32:53-05:00 2018-03-10T04:32:53-05:00 Capt Daniel Goodman 3432758

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My whole thing from start to finish took six and a half years, give or take...my mother in law we&#39;re trying to process as a VA survivospr, she&#39;s hopefully gonna ne 96 IH Apr, she&#39;s debilitated and got the functional equiv of non-Alzheimer&#39;s dementia, with hospitalizations the past two years now, this year and last year...my wife&#39;s dad charged a minefield in Europe with Armynduring WW2, my wife&#39;s stepdatd was Navy destroyers band distroyer escorts in combat in the Pacific during WW2 and Korea (Mom falls under him as VA goes by the last marriage), and my late brother in law was noncombat KC-135 aircrew assigned to SAC during Vietnam, he wasn&#39;t in-country, though he was a refuelingnboom operator and aircraft mechanic with USAF, I&#39;m sure he saw his shrare of hazardous duty at various points, I&#39;d expect. We&#39;re still having to justify getting Non a survivor&#39;s pension, even though my wife&#39;s dad got a Bronze, and the steodad got his own theatre decorations...believe me, before my disability, I trained in sevl VA hospitals, I kmow VA as well as anyone possibly can both by don&#39;t of sheer exposure, as well as having anecdotallly knocked about that world for nearly a decade with my whole disability thing, both as claimant as well as being an outpatient, as well as an inpatyent, I also helped with a good many surgeries during my first year of residency, which was at a VA, though we shut my license off sevl yrs ago...he VA, I&#39;ve found, has a great deal of bureaucratic inertia, though, fortuitously, I myself have never seen manifest incompetencez though I&#39;ve gathered many others have...there are two principal reasons I perceive why VA takes as long to get things done as it frequently does, actually tree, I suppose...first, is horrendously long, complicated, and involved statutory procedure needing expert handling to frequently either know precisely what form to fill out and how, combined with a very real and frequent need to do legal case law research, to find suitable precedents...then, too, the VA is a large, complex, administrative machine, with !triad belts, gears, cams, and pulleys, so that trying to understand its inner workings is frequently akin to the uninitiated needing to get under the hood of a modern car hat won&#39;t startz and thinking that one just tinker with a bettery cable, or play with an old fashioned carburetor, to get the car to go, which in modern cars is purest fantasy, NY and large...and, third, most people, as a result, quite simply become either nauseated, or impatient, or both, and just either basically give up in slow resignation, or proceed to get their dander up, as it were, and want to tilt at their windmill like Son Quioxte, which in the vpcase of the BA is basically like fighting God, for the most part...the trick, I&#39;ve found, is to really know how the majority of the various components actually function, what the major components are, how to actually be able to get staff on the phone, and what question(s) to actually ask them, and/or how to explain a problem coherently...in truth, in all fairness, once my wife and I acquiesced to the manner in which VA does things, once I realized how VA hospitals actually function, which is generally dictated by the academic institution they&#39;re all affiliated with, we were generally able to navigate it properly, plus, the hospital by us, unlike that Tuscon scandal, is actually properly run. in any large bureaucratic tapestry, there are inevitably going to be segments that function better than others, humans aren&#39;t machines, in actuality, and all VA hospitals, I&#39;ve found, have differences, just because he humans running them have differences...before my disability, I trained in 10 different hospitals in three different states, public, private, VA, non VA. hospitals are very frequently quite fractious institutions, part hotel, part restaurant, part factory, and, often, part iadministrative insane asylum, VA hospitals are no different or worse than the many others I&#39;ve seen...in the case of VS hospitals, he staff however are frequently, though not always, non prior, as such, they often, though not always, had never themselves been exposed to the arcania of prior active duty, Guard, or Reserve life, which frequently exacerbates a sense of disconnect between staff and patients, all of whom have been so exposed, which frequently adds to a level of consternation, being as VA hospitals deal with a unique patient audience that typical hospitals dont normally have to deal with as constantly....I&#39;d only say, in closing, that while I&#39;m obvioisly glad such a program as decision ready claims, of fully developed claims exists, I&#39;m afraid that, at least to !e, the notion of having a claim approved in a month, God willing, is rather akin, to my mind, like a belief in Santa Claus, te Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Boogfoot, Sas quatch, the Abominable Snowman, the Yeti, and the Lock Mess monster....I&#39;ll believe it when I see it, frequently, for all the various reasons I&#39;ve listed, basically, for the most part, pigs&#39;ll fly first...we did have one minor nonmonetary claim for me that a VS attending endorsed, that did actually get approved white rapidly, however, that was only after my main claim had already been finished, and was, certainly, a rarity...I&#39;d actually thought it&#39;d ne considerably more difficult than it proved to ne, that subsequent nonmonetary claim, so, amazingly, my wife and I were quite frankly somewhat taken aback, as well as quite pleasantly surprised when our request was granted, in that one specific narrow case, as easily as it was...I suppose, once in awhile, even in so complex and arcane a bureaucratic universe, miracles do occasionally happen, like the adage says, there&#39;s gotta ne an exception that disproves the rile, you kmow? Many thanks....

2018-03-10T07:24:10-05:00 2018-03-10T07:24:10-05:00 SSgt Jim Gilmore 3432787

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Everything I have seen or read so far indicates it&#39;s a negative and you should consult an Accredited Claims Agent or an Accredited Lawyer on this matter. This may not be the path for you especially if you have claims already in the mill.

2018-03-10T07:38:03-05:00 2018-03-10T07:38:03-05:00 PFC Donnie Harold Harris 3433430

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I just received one of these letters last week from Rapid appeals. My lawyer said that the letter did not state that it would be 1 years before the new program started. Thus derailing my current placement in line line. I had her check with the local Va appeals office and they said they were currently working on 5/16 claims- appears time. I was 7 month latter. So I am waiting.

2018-03-10T11:44:22-05:00 2018-03-10T11:44:22-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 3433875

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was lucky. I knew my military and VA percentages before I retired.

2018-03-10T14:47:42-05:00 2018-03-10T14:47:42-05:00 COL Private RallyPoint Member 3433922

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I did my own, took about 5 months. Just courteous how they can get anything done in 30 days other than denying your claim.

2018-03-10T15:09:57-05:00 2018-03-10T15:09:57-05:00 PVT Mark Brown 3434803

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes, 3 times. I believe it to be VA-Government rhetoric. This is entered into the statistical database and will yield the appearance of greater competence on the part of the VA.

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