Medical records from during service are an important part of VA disability claims. Often (but not always), a claim can hinge on whether a veteran received treatment during service. In this post, we’ll walk through the types of records available, the VA’s duty to gather…
In this post, we discuss service personnel records – what they are and how to obtain them. What are Service Personnel Records? Typically, once a service member is discharged, their service personnel records are compiled into an Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). This file encompasses…
One problem many veterans run into is that a problem they currently have may have had some presence, in one form or another, before they were in the military. There is some analogy to the medical insurance bar to insurance coverage for a preexisting condition. …
Many veterans may reasonably believe they are entitled to benefits based on an injury or disease incurred during National Guard duty but are quickly denied for not meeting the definition as a “veteran”. While veterans who serve for prolonged periods in the primary branches of…
Many Veterans logically believe that upon award, their date of entitlement should go back to the date that the problem first arose. Unfortunately, the applicable VA law on this point isn’t as favorable to the Veteran as one would hope. While there are many exceptions,…
