Marine Down - Agent orange - seeking information / help to present his case to VA

[caryverell]

***ATTENTION ALL VETS PLEASE PASS ON THIS IS URGENT***
PRIORITY TRAFFIC DYING VET NEEDS ASSISTANCE

S/F......
All Hands:
This is from Maj JJ Dill, the CO of the New York Recruiting Station.
If any Marine from Gun #2, Battery K 4th Bn 11th Marines 1st Marine Division, who served in Viet Nam in 1968-69, and knows a Gary Braswell, please e-mail Marilyn Coll at firebright_1@yahoo.com
We hope this works Major.
Semper Fi, Sir,
Seamus
garrahy@supernet.com
Marines Only: www.gunghosauce.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Coll [mailto:firebright_1@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 6:36 PM
To: Lu Caldara
Subject: VAVS Questions
This message has been sent from the www.mclwestchester.org web site.

I hope I'm sending this to someone that can help me. I am a hospice nurse, and have a patient that is dying of cancer. His agent orange claim has been denied by the VA unless he can prove exposure to prove service connection. I'm searching for any information that could help him at his and his family's request.
He was in Nam in 68-69 assigned to 1st Marine Div, Gun#2, Battery K, 4th Bn, 11th Marines. I'm retired Army, and I know that Marines stay in touch better than we do.
Name: Gary Braswell, Marshville, NC Please know I'm releasing this information with the consent of Gary and his wife.
He has an aggressive cancer and is failing fast. My understanding is that if the claim isn't resubmitted before death it will not be honored. If you have any information about direct exposure or other members that have been afflicted with cancer that could be agent orange related please contact me as soon as possible.
I have instructed the spouse to contact the VFW and the DAV but know they will need additional information.
Thank you for your help.
Mari

[enviro]

Maybe someone for K-4-11 that knows him can be found here.

http://www.military.com/HomePage/UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,500051,00.html

[Ed Palmer]

I sent you a copy of what I had on agent orange. It worked for me. They say that if you were in country and later in life got type 2 diabetes you got comp, with out any stati. So keep pushing you rate it .
SEMPER FI
Ed Palmer

hope this helps

[thedrifter]

All of the diseases on the VA's list of conditions linked to the herbicide exposure appear in the left-hand column. If there is a requirement that the disease appear within a certain period of time, the period of time appears in the right-hand column.


http://silverrose.org/ao-1.html


Keep fighting.......I'm doing this for my husband .........


Ellie

[Sparrowhawk]

But I do know the area he served in and where Operation Ranch Hand (US Air Force) sprayed that area with Agent Orange from late 1966-1969.

Below is a map of where the spraying took place and dead in the center of the map just to the left and down from Da Nang is where battery K, 11th marines was located during that time.
Also is a good research piece of Operation ranch hand and Agent Orange.


http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/AirOps/Images/RanchHand/Map-spray_msns-RVN-65-71.jpg


http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/update98/#Contents

[thedrifter]

Here is another map.......

Agent Orange Spray Map Vietnam War

http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aospraymap.html


Ellie

[TMM54]

Call the local chapter of the DVA and ask the service officer to get moving on this Marine's behalf. The DAV guys/girls work wonders, and I can testify from their work at our post. Semper Fidelis, Tom Murray

[hrscowboy]

you can also get a hold of and attorney in Topeka Kansas his name is kenneth Carpenter that does nothing but takes agent orange claims but the vet has had to be turned down first by the VA . he got my claim done in 2 months.

[caryverell]

The information is fantastic! I am hopeful that you forwarded it to the interested party, Ms. Coll, at firebright_1@yahoo.com.

It still seems odd that this would bounce around the country before coming to me and being posted. I know neither Ms. Coll nor Braswell. I'd thought that the modern day REMF's and POGI's would be more on top of things. Yeah, yeah, the more things change, the more they remain insane.

Bottom line - THANKS to those of you with information and willing to share that information. Semper Fidelis - more than a motto - a way of life.

[hrscowboy]

its really sad that veterans like us has to fight and fight the damn red tape to prove something that uncle sam knew damn well what they had done us veterans with operation ranchhand and then stand up and bone face lie to each and everyone of us.

[1Hankpic]

Hey Cowboy, I read your tip on contacting this attorney that helped with your Agent Orange claim. Here's my situation. My wife has a cousin that served in the U.S. Army that recently developed...

[SgtThrasher]

its really sad that veterans like us has to fight and fight the damn red tape to prove something that uncle sam knew damn well what they had done us veterans with operation ranchhand and then stand up and bone face lie to each and everyone of us.

Cowboy,the Politicians would call that Plausible deniability!



Plausible deniability refers to the denial of blame in loose and informal chains of command where upper rungs quarantine the blame to the lower ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability (http://www.google.com/url?&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability&ei=FTSISt3TEoq7lAfml4CXAQ&sa=X&oi=define&ct=&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNHAJIE0x6NwJKBejO-YXUmXUqF5Tw)
The organization of a clandestine military operation in such a way that knowledge of its existence may be denied by those in authority
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plausible_deniability:evilgrin: (http://www.google.com/url?&q=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plausible_deniability&ei=FTSISt3TEoq7lAfml4CXAQ&sa=X&oi=define&ct=&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNG4S9jJJrRGDofAfua2B313p4yyDQ)

[Zebra29er]

Call the local chapter of the DVA and ask the service officer to get moving on this Marine's behalf. The DAV guys/girls work wonders, and I can testify from their work at our post. Semper Fidelis, Tom Murray


+1 on that , The DAV pulled my bacon out of the fire and got me mine . They are a great organization and the only Veterans group that I donate to.
And Thank You for stepping up for this Marine .

Semper-Fi

[Deduke]

1-(785) 357-7312. The lady who answers the phone will make an appointment for you to speak with Catherine, who will take your info and present it to Mr Carpenter. You do not pay anything up front. If he decides to take your case, he only collects money from the proceeds.

S.F.
Deduke

[oldtop]

Regardless of where he was in Vietnam, as long as he was in country (not offshore) and his DD 214 shows Vietnam service, he does not have to prove exposure. Exposure is presumed, for any condition that has been determined to be caused by AO. The most important question in this case is WHAT KIND OF CANCER does this Marine have??? Is it on the list??
In any case, contact a service officer from American Legion, VFW, DAV, or the Marine Corps League, and get help from a professional to win this claim.

[1Hankpic]

Thanks Deduke and OldTop. I called the number and spoke with Catherine. Unfortunately Mr. Carpenter only handles PTSD cases. This is an appeal for Agent Orange. His type of cancer (see above where I sent my original message) is not on the presumptive list. Catherine did give me another lead for further researching my wife's cousin's problem and I am looking into it.

Semper FI