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If your claim is in the Philadelphia RO then PM me and Il see if I can help out. That goes for any claims (compensation, disability pension, or death pensions)

Veteran Service Organizations salaries are not paid by the Department oif Veterans Affairs.

If you personally ask a doctor they are going to charge you an arm and a leg. They cannot charge the VA though. Hence have the VA request any doctors documents that you need for your claim. The VA...

Fill out Form 21-4142 and return the signed form to the VA with your doctors information on it. The VA will request the civilian records and the doctor cannot charge the VA.

Be prepared to have buddy statements from fellow Marines that saw you burning.

Thats not entirely true. If you pass while you have an open claim your spouse or dependent can send in a "substitution of claimant" to try to be awarded any accrued benefits that you were owed at the...

You are looking at least 18 months here in Philly. We have quite a backlog of claims.

Buy some condoms.

I work for the VA Regional Office in Philadelphia. There are no "sealed files".

Go to www.va.gov

Too many people get butthurt on this site when Marines dont share the same opinions on certain issues.

The VA will request the records from the National Archives but if they do not recieve them then it is your responsibility to retrieve them. Have you sent in a VA Frm 21-526 to start your compensation...

Go to www.va.govand all the rules are explained to try to receive veteran benefits.

The Corps is looking to downsize. Why waste time and effort to continue to keep him in after being prosecuted? They should give him a BCD and then let him go do his jail time.

His career in the Corps is probably over.

Its all in the doctors hands

The VA doesnt make the rules and regulations. Congress does. Write them to have the laws amended.

This kid is doomed between the wife and the stepmom

You can contact a VSO (Veterans service officer such as the American Legion or Disabled American Veterans) and they may help you get a corrected DD214. They will also help you try to receive...

Your son will go through classes before he is discharged that will explain what he is entitled to from the VA. He can go to www.va.gov which may help.

If you are p/t you can be reviewed every few years to determine if you still rate that disability.

I smell a couple page 11's or an NJP in his future for bouncing checks,,,

Stationed/ deployed is all semantics. He is stationed there and the Marine Corps will not station him elsewhere because he is married. I had a lot of married friends that went to Okinawa on an...

Bed bugs are the least of his worries on deployment to Okinawa.

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