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Originally posted by sextoyking@Oct 19 2003, 12:59 AM
Zebra,

I feel for you bro.

A guy who has worked in our shipping dept. for years was in the reserves for 19 years, 11B, 11B20, etc. His unit was called up, went to Saudi for 6 months. He had never in his life had a single medical issue, except that he did wear glasses sometimes. Anyways, after he did his 6 months and came back, wierd shit started happening. Dizzyness all the time, mabey on a good nights sleep, 6 hours of sleep. Alot of diff. problems. The VA for the first few years said it wasn't War related or some shit, but they have him on like 15-20 pills a day for the last 10+ yrs or so. I keep telling him to get a good lawyer as he deserves some disability, but he doesn't know where to go and doesn't know all that kind of shit. I always feel bad for Larry, man such a good guy. He wasn't in battle, he was a Nco in charge of guarding some ship docks or something. Must have got some bad gas over there I guess.

Fucked thing was, he was at 19+ years when he came back, smoked some pot as it helped him sleep, then his # came up for a ua, since he was an e-5, he had to go, 1 year shy..

If you know any lawyers handling claims for Gulf war soldiers, please let me know.

thanks

todd

Any veteran who wishes to have someone that will work for them for free
to get them benefits they EARNED should contact local chapter of DAV....

I've been member since 94 when I got out. They ensured I got my hearing
and also got me free college w/ salary (NOT GI Bill) after ETS..

Local offices can be found here...
http://www.dav.org/help/contact_dav.html

I interviewed to be an NSO with them while in college, these are definately
the 'good guys' to have in your corner...

DAV