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Head of Arkansas vets office quits after bad audit
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Personal Note: With any kind of luck tons more of the puffed up VA poison dealing trolls will dragged kicking and screaming into the light in North Little Rock Arkansas and will be forced to bite the dust through resignations or outright be fired. R Gilbert Author and Blow Owner Non-Compensated Gay Vietnam Veteran
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Recieved Through Email Veteran Issues by Colonel Dan
[VeteranIssues] FW: Vietnam Veteran Fights 11 Years for Disability Approval, Oakland CA VARO is a Blackhole
My Note: If only your local media would dig a little deeper. My local TV WCIA recently did a glowing report on the Danville VA, but left out info about the back logs for claims at the Chicago VARO, and waits for appointments. The story below is common thru out the VA
When the auditors analyzed 60 random cases in two major categories — temporary full disability evaluations and traumatic brain injury claims — they found that the office incorrectly processed the claims in 33 of the cases. That’s right, more than half.
VA OIG Report
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/120321073/VAOIG-12-00247-175
full story at
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_20596020/bay-area-vets-wait-almost-year-average-have
partial reprint below
The Oakland office, which handles benefits claims for veterans from Bakersfield north to the Oregon border, had almost 32,500 claims waiting an average of 269 days — compared with a national target time of 180 days — when the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general visited in December. As of April, the delay for veterans had increased to 320 average days.
The 320 average pending days at the Oakland center compares with an average of 241 days last month at the other 56 facilities nationwide, according to statistics provided to Rep. Jerry McNerney’s office.
The VA inspector general report also found 39 percent of 90 disability claims inspected were incorrectly processed, and of the eight major office functions inspected in Oakland, only five were in compliance.
The 10 oldest Oakland claims had been pending for between 1,040 and 3,187 days, according to the report. The facility, with 269 full-time employees inside the Ron Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland, failed to follow VA policy and provide monthly reviews of claims older than a year, the report found.
As of last month, it took an average of 125 days before an Oakland VA employee first eyeballed a veteran’s claim, according to McNerney’s office. Carpino said such long waits may dissuade returning soldiers from trying to access the help they need.
“There are a lot of young guys coming out of Iraq that don’t want to get involved in it and don’t want to deal with the VA,” he said. “A lot of guys are maimed so bad, they have no arms or legs and they have to fight for every last bit and that’s not right.”
Patrick Leary, a 65-year-old Vietnam War veteran from Pleasanton, filed a claim for treatment of ringing in the ears in May 2011 — caused, he believes, by his years piloting helicopter gunships. In January, he found out his claim was denied because the VA said helicopter pilots were not exposed to much noise — although he said the VA never alerted him — and he appealed. He had his first hearing test last month, and his claim is pending.
Also see:
Colonel Dan
Veteran Fights 11 Years for Disability Claim Approval
Read it at:
Bay Area vets wait almost a year on average to have claims processed at Oakland VA facility
By Matthias Gafni
Contra Costa Times
Bay Area veterans wait nearly a year on average for their disability claims to get processed at the regional center in Oakland, according to a highly critical federal report released Thursday, leading one East Bay congressman to call the facility a bureaucratic “black hole.”
V/R
Richard L. Conley Sr. USN(RET)
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From KARK’s News Website And Posted By Permission Of KARK Channel 4:
Personal Note by R Gilbert Blog Owner:
This is why all veterans are being shit all over people and having their noses rubbed in it, so the fat bloated ugly old trolls in The VA Regional Office in North Little Rock, AR and The Department Of Veterans can lavish expensive gifts on their families and personal favorites and one of the primary reasons for the staggering mountain of backlogged claims on VA’s books. Note the prices of the personal computer, the Dell Laptop and the telephone system. Also what was a 72,960.00 dollar generator needed for and exactly where did it go? Computer glitch my wrinkled up old non-compensated ass.
State VA Employee Racked up Almost $2,000 in Credit Card Charges
By: Jonathan Athens
Updated: May 11, 2012
Department Of Veterans Affairs
Auditors found a staffer at the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs racked up almost $2,000 in charges on a credit card she allegedly obtained for the agency without permission. Robyn K. Clark was the Administrative Services manager for the agency. According to a report by the Bureau of Legislative Audit, Clark allegedly charged alcohol, meals out, gasoline and Salon visits. Clark could not be reached for comment.
Kendall Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Veterans Affairs, said Clark quit before the agency could fire her. Thornton said Clark promised to pay back the agency but failed to do so. Auditors have turned the case over to the Pulaski County Prosecutor’s Office for review. The audit, however, also revealed other problems the agency has had with record keeping. Seven items valued at over $93,000 could not be located by the Agency; three items totaling just over $74,000 had inventory tags that did not match records, and two items totaling almost $30,000 had been disposed of buy had not been removed from the Agency’s inventory list. Audits said the Agency has corrected all but one of those errors. Thornton said the Agency has taken the necessary steps to rectify these problems. She said a problem with the Agency’s computer logging system was the problem. In the case of the Clark, Thornton said better communication among upper level management “has been put into place” to keep this from happening again.
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Received Through Email: [VeteranIssues] 60 Minutes Gets an Honest Answer about Veterans defrauding the U.S. taxpayer:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=10039
This is a follow-up to Gordon Duff’s special report 60 MINUTES RUNS FLUFF PIECE ON VETERANS WOES
Paul Sullivan posted what I believe to be the heart of the problem with the backlog of VA claims in his response to the ‘stolen valor’ question raised by CBS reporter Bryan Pitts.
This video went up on YouTube also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-jArAuC9w&feature=player_embedded
Veteran’s Activists Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) was on camera when CBS 60 minutes investigative reporter Byron Pitts asked what can be called the Stolen Valor question.
Listen yourselves at what Pitts asked Sulliven – something to the effect of how does the VA balance its responsibility to U.S. taxpayers with its responsibility to America’s Veterans. [This is an outlandish assumption that most Veterans scam and defraud the U.S. taxpayer - hum!]
Paul’s response was short and to the point. The number of Veterans who scam the VA on a yearly basis could be counted on one hand. That is what we need to say to the NEOCONs of the world who have downplayed PTSD, Agent Orange and will belittle any ailment coming out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – on this we Veterans can depend.
Have we not heard this same refrain about responsiblity to U.S. tax payers before from the likes of B.G. Burkett and Dr. Sally Satel?
After Vietnam, ultra-conservative Veterans, and the conservative politicians that they supported, preached that both PTSD and Agent Orange, but especially PTSD, were the basis of fraudulent claims by Veterans to the VA.Hell, they challenged the very existence of PTSD that must have thrilled a Pentagon in much need of cannon fodder for the last days of Vietnam.
Readers that was what over 35 years ago yet that attitude is still going strong or Pitts would never have asked that question. Later, neo-conservatives like Burkett were joined by at lease ONE neo-conservative psychiatrist named Sally Satel.
The main emphasis of the stolen valor argument was that veterans in large numbers were defrauding the American tax payer by faking PTSD. A mental health condition they claimed was easy to fake.
However, the main thrust of Stolen Valor was on attacking FAKE VETERANS period. Yet, it has never been explained to any intelligent person exactly how a fake veteran gets into the VA system be it during Vietnam, after Vietnam, or today. Anyone vaguely familiar with the VA system knows that it is hard enough for a legitimate veteran to get into the VA.
Does the name Sally Satel ring a bell. It should if you are a PTSD advocate or researcher (regardless of your political biases and yes you have them).
She used the stolen valor arguments of B.G. Burkett right up to 2004, if not beyond, to compare young Iraq and Afghanistan Vets with Vietnam Vets when it came to PTSD. This attitude now entrenched within the VA system is why we will forever have a backlog of claims at the VA.
Taking the ultra-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) position she represents (if one doesn’t think professional MDs and Shrinks are non-partisan THINK AGAIN) Dr. Sally asked how does one explain the postwar explosion in Vietnam PTSD cases?
The frequently excuse Sally says is that the start of PTSD can be delayed for months or years. This belief, however, has no support in research studies. And consider the striking absence of delayed cases in long-range studies like that of people affected by the Oklahoma City bombing. Such studies have found that symptoms of PTSD almost always develop within days of the traumatic event and, in about two-thirds of sufferers, fade within a year.
She then goes on to attack the early pioneers of PTSD research using words and logic right out of the much biased and politically partisan Stolen Valor by B.G. Burkett. I used Burkett’s roll of toilet paper not to hack his book but to show and example of how the crap he wrote about in that book still has a conservative following given Sally Satel is still around fighting the PTSD fakers.
Sally says that it is worth noting that the concept of delayed PTSD was introduced in the early 1970′s by a group of psychiatrists led by Robert Jay Lifton, an outspoken opponent of the war. Burkett used the terminology the Lifton and other LIBERALS at the VA collaborated with Vietnam Veterans of American to defraud the American taxpayer on the degree of PTSD. In fact, Burkett went a step further in downplaying both PTSD and Agent Orange.
She notes that these liberal Psychiatrists (remember she is a NEOCON psychiatrist just as there are NEOCON doctors, nurses, and so on). These liberals decided that many former Soldiers suffered what was called post-Vietnam syndrome – marked by “alienation, depression, an inability to concentrate, insomnia, nightmares, restlessness, uprootedness and impatience with almost any job or course of study” – and that this distinguished veterans of Vietnam from those of any other war.
Sally also notes that there was little data to back up the existence of this delayed syndrome, but that PTSD stole a Vietnam Veterans valor. Say what?
It was THE IMAGE of the veteran as a walking time bomb [Rambo] that was a boon to the antiwar movement, which used it as proof that military aggression destroys minds and annihilates souls. Yes, some veterans suffered the crippling anxiety of chronic PTSD. But the broad-brush diagnosis of post-Vietnam syndrome also served political ends. Here she is referring to the conservative MYTH of how THE LIBERALS lost the Vietnam War. Note also that she and other NEOCONs use the broad brush stroke that anyone and everyone who questioned let alone opposed the Vietnam War was a liberal (from media giants such as Walter Cronkite to the mainstream media in general once it stopped selling the war right down to professional medical people who held a diverse political ideology). Today if readers be Libertarians or Independents yet still hold conservative values, she and her kind will still label you a LIBERAL if you question or oppose not only the Vietnam war, but the current wars that she sees as connected and fears THE LIBERALS will once again END and LOSE.
However she also notes there are a couple of other reasons to be skeptical of most troops claiming PTSD. For one, there is an economic incentive to claim suffering. Now more than ever she would agree with Paul Sullivan but for a different reason. The economic meltdown is driving more elderly Veterans to the VA with the intention of scamming the government and ripping off the American people. If that were not a fact, once again CBS correspondent Bryan Pitts would not have asked Paul Sullivan about the incidents of Veterans defrauding the VA.
It is the Sally Satel’s and B.G. Burketts of the world, many of them unfortunately Veterans determined to leave their brothers and sisters behind that will make claims like this. Veterans have an economic incentive to file a VA claim regardless if they are disabled or not.
In her own words, Sally says that a “veteran deemed to be fully disabled [100%] by post-traumatic stress disorder can collect $2,000 to $3,000 a month, tax free. More important, perhaps, the syndrome provides a medicalized explanation for many unhappy, but not necessarily traumatized, veterans trying to make sense of their experience.[Frankly the politically biased doctor who has never seen combat nor worked closely with combat veterans experiencing PTSD fails to mention that very few veterans warrant a rating of 100% with PTSD alone. It has to be combined with other ailments]
In talking about the growing number of Vietnam Vets claiming PTSD later in life Dr. Sally notes that it is in your imagination. She claims that psychological studies have shown that Vietnam Vets tend to reconstruct the past in terms of the present – Vets often exaggerate the degree of earlier misfortune if they are feeling bad, or minimize old troubles if they are feeling good.
Some of the Vets interviewed by 60 minutes, and quite a few Vietnam Vets not interviewed would either find it impossible to prove a combat connection (even if combat stress were the major trigger of PTSD since the triggers vary as much as individual personalities).
However, her kind are proponents of denying VA claims unless there is a clear link to combat trauma.
THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUNGER MORE ENERGIZED VETERANS ADVOCATES TO TAKE THE VA HEAD ON IN THIS EXCUSE TO DELAY, DENY, UNTIL WE DIE ATTITUDE THAT REMAINS ENTRENCHED AT THE VA REGARDLESS WHAT VA TALKING DOGS HAVE TO TELL MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!!
Don’t take my word for it, listen to Dr. Sally, “it is vital that researchers corroborate the battlefield events that veterans cite as causes of their PTSD. Unfortunately, researchers on the 1990 PTSD readjustment study did not do the archival legwork to verify the trauma that the veterans reported. Until a better study is done, the “facts” on post-Vietnam PTSD are simply speculation.
CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN VIETNAM, IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN
Dr. Sally (though she does not work within the VA thank God, she once did) and others still entrenched within the VA have this attitude not only about Vietnam Vets but also younger Veterans that they view as WEAK as LIBERALS.
They promote the view that “some soldiers will return from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe psychological problems, and we must do everything in our power to help them. The vast majority, however, will be able to adjust on their own – and imposing on them the questionable legacy of Vietnam won’t do them any service. As the British psychiatrist Simon Wessely has put it: “Generals are justly criticized for fighting the last war, not the present one. Psychiatrists should be aware of the same mistake.”
THAT READERS (VIETNAM ERA VETS OR YOUNGER VETS) IS THE BOTTOM LINE ABOUT WHAT REALLY IS THE ROOT OF THE BACKLOG OF VA CLAIMS. EVEN IF DR. SALLY IS ONTO SOMETHING AND SHE AND B.G. BURKETT ARE FULL OF IT, THE ATTITUDE ALONE WOULD STILL HOLD UP OTHER VA CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO PTSD!
Robert L. Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
Libertarian (Liberal, conservative, you name it)
PS: I got my 100% by knowing how to defeat the Satels and Burkett’s of the world and shake my fist at their kind should they try taking my VA benefits away from me. I earned them!!! She never will, and Burkett degrades what we’ve earned in the name of Stolen Valor!!!
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Notice Of Disagreement to VA Regional Office, North Little Rock, AR
Re: C-File# 25 564 391
May 3, 2012
Roy C Gilbert
Morrilton, AR 72110
Fax 501-215-4223
Web Sites Gay Vetts
Coalition Of Gay Vietnam Veterans
DEPARMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS REGIONAL OFFICE
2200 FORT ROOTS DRIVE, BLDG, 65
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR 72114-1756
Notice Of Disagreement to VA Regional Office, North Little Rock, AR
Denial on the VA claims came as old news to many years of bad blood between the VA and I and too much hate, evil and power involved to make sure they never are. As long as the VA and spineless gutless coward who stuck his nose into my affairs in New Orleans where he had no business nor authorization in the first placed and sucked ass until he got his whiny little greedy way and forced me back to his diseased ridden little cesspool can keep me locked in poverty, the VA and fucking coward can keep me locked in a disease ridden little prison town, a near virtual isolation chamber and in a generalized location that is run by and fueled on nothing but hate and ill will. But as the saying goes all things do end eventually and so it will be with the VA and Morrilton. One of my nephews was awarded a 20% disability from the VA Regional Office shortly after I filed the request through Veterans ON–line Application for him but then he is also straight and in with the inner circle power wheel here, so once again that came as no surprise for me either.
The C-File shows nervousness which has been compensatable since on/or 1959, before during and following military service, which you assholes apparently choose to turn a blind eye to and no I’m not going to make this a coming to you with my hat in hand begging a bunch of haters who have no intention of ever awarding this claims in the first place type of appeal. And I for one have no intentions of even trying to win any type of VA claims that instantly cursed and hopelessly lost forever since 198
The C-File shows nervousness which has been compensatable since on/or 1959, before during and following military service, which you assholes apparently choose to turn a blind eye to and no I’m not going to make this a coming to you with my hat in hand begging a bunch of haters who have no intention of ever awarding this claims in the first place type of appeal. And I for one have no intentions of even trying to win any type of VA claims that instantly cursed and hopelessly lost forever since 1982
Further I don’t need a service organization or VSO to lose for me what I can loose on my own and will never get to begin with. VA Regional Office or the hate filled fucking coward would only offer them a nice incentive to either loose the claims or drop representation all together. It’s happened to many God Damned times in the past. As a veteran who served during and in a war zone I am entitled to a non-service connected pension which again you assholes in the VA Regional Office following true to form are again ignoring and turning a blind eye to and using every legal loophole and trick in the book to deny as well. You betcha VA Regional is not going to like the wording of this Notice Of Disagreement nor did I intend for them to like it. I’m not beating a dead horse for anybody, least of all some God Damned gutless, spineless coward that doesn’t even have the guts to drop his fucking name in the ring, and most assuredly any of those fucking old trolls in the VA Regional Office in North Little Rock, AR.
So the hate filled fucking coward can just keep the fucking strong curse as strong as ever, one raw deal after another and string it out to the God Damned bitter end, irrespective his fucking curse dies with me and for the record military burial honors are hereby rejected with extreme prejudice and contempt for the flag and what it has come to stand for. C-File and military medical records show several stressor events one of which was the attack at Can Tho Delta Triangle aka iron triangle, Mekong Delta by the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive, extreme panic following said attack, again which you assholes chose to omit altogether, high blood pressure and hypertension are compensatable another of those conditions which you bastards chose to ignore. Alcohol overdose at Vung Tau on/or about Nov. 1968, low testosterone levels that CAVHS has been aware of since on/or about 1974, head injury on/or about Sept 1968, the entire military tour beginning with Basic Training 1967-1969. GI shower on/or about Oct/Nov. 1967 during AIT. Left eye injury Hunter Army Airfield on/or about early/mid 1968 which is shown in military medical records In any case the fucking decision denial by The VA Regional Office, North Little Rock, AR is hereby appealed and not with any hope of any type of compensation non-service or otherwise, but to be nothing more than a painful thorn in the side of the VA Regional Office, North Little Rock, AR. I might misspell the names of places in Vietnam and some of my memories might be vague but that’s because it was damned long ago and most of it is buried or locked under tons gray fog.
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And don’t waste your time setting up any personal hearings, you people are 50 miles away, transportation is non-existent, the fucking ride is to tiring, fucking gas is through the roof and it wouldn’t make a difference one iota either way the claims were hopelessly lost in June 1982 when I came out of the closet to a God Damned VA psychologist Dr. Lewis Neal/Neel and the God Damned Hate Filled Fucking gutless inner circle member coward in this diseased ridden cesspool town who hasn’t the courage to face me brought down a curse and vendetta of hate against me. Well he can just shove his rotten curse right straight up his fucking ass and not on the right and not the left but right in Z middle where I sincerely hope it causes him unbearable agony, doom and gloom. You can’t even get the News Media to even think of going near the VA Regional Office in North Little Rock, AR unless it’s one of their stupid “Everybody Has A Story” about some fine thing some idiot did and it never about the shit treatment veterans are having to put up with at Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System, The VA Regional Office nor a homeless veteran.
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VA Regional Office In North Little Rock, AR Shits On Me Again:
Well the VA Regional Office in North Little Rock, AR fucked over me again with another denial on the VA claims, came as old news to me the claims were denied. To many years of bad blood between the VA and I and to much hate, evil and power involved to make sure they never are. I will of course appeal the decision when I get around to it before the time allowed expires, not with any hopes of ever having them awarded but to be nothing more than a thorn in the side of the VA Regional Office. As long as the VA can keep me locked in poverty, the VA can keep me locked in a disease ridden little prison town and in a generalized area that is run by and fueled on nothing but hate and ill will. But as the saying goes all things do end eventually and so it will be with the VA and Morrilton. One of my nephews was awarded a 20% disability from the VA Regional Office shortly after I filed the request through Veterans ON–line Application for him but then he is also straight and in with the inner circle power wheel here, so once again that came as no surprise for me.
The non service connected pension wasn’t even mentioned.
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Further Thoughts About The VA Regional Office In North Little Rock, Arkansas:
When the VA Regional Office in North Little Rock Arkansas does deny my VA claims and they will eventually get around to it probably in about two or three years or so if I’m lucky that is, I plan on appealing their decision not with even the smallest hope the claims will ever be awarded (to much hate and power involved to see that they aren’t) but rather so I can send the VA Regional Office another one of my letters letting them know precisely what the hate filled lying coward that messed it for me in Louisiana can go with himself. There are tons too much, power; greed, hate and outright evil involved for my claims to ever be awarded. I’ll also be mailing along with my appeal the letting them know why I don’t need sex and to add a few more drops of bad to the witch’s caldron or should that have been The Devils Caldron, and it’s my sincerest wish the VA Regional office reads into the appeal, and statement of the case all of the hate, animosity and ill will the hate filed lying coward has shown to me and my family over the years here in this cesspool nowhere mud hole town. The only reason it was done was out of nothing more than hate, greed and to hurt me anyway the coward could deny me and hurt me.
See I’m no longer even working toward the goal of having my VA claims approved not that they ever will be, they’d do me about as much good now as all of my prayers have done through the long empty, wasted poverty filled years since I came out to a scum sucking North Little Rock VA psychologist named Dr. Lewis Neal in the early 1980′s. Dr. Neal’s mind and personal impression (and I use the title Dr. with extreme contempt) of me was already formed at first sight and before the interview even began, one of those VA jerks who smiles to your face and feels only animosity and treachery for you on the inside. It’s further my sincerely wish the lying hate filled coward where ever he is, has at least the chance to read this blog post and it’s also my one of fondest wishes (and if I had the power to bring down curse’s I would do so) the lying hate filled coward has as least the very same curse dropped down into his lap and The Department of Veterans Affairs faces total disgrace, ruination and eventual dissolvement of The Department Of Veterans Affairs and all her Regional Offices as well.
I certainly will not wish for those things for others, and not even one of my fellow veterans, the very things a closed minded hate filled lying coward apparently has the power and connections to continue denying me. For my part of it the VA Regional office in North Little Rock can hold my claims and any benefits that might otherwise be due me, hostage and deny them indefinitely all they have ever been and all they will ever be are fucking myths and pipe dreams, spewed out by the VA Regional Office to string me along.
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The Devils Caldron And A Witches Brew:
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The North Little Rock, AR VA Regional Office And Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System |
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