So I'm on a telephone appointment with my caseworker for the VA Vocational Rehabilitation program. It's a program to help veterans get back to work after
prolonged time off .

Anyway he's suggesting some positions for me to apply for, things like that. While we are talking, he asks if I have a service connected disability, which officially I haven't been classified with yet. He then asked where I was stationed in the US. After telling him where I went for Basic Training, his reply is "You need to apply for service connected. That's one of the bases they shut down due to toxic chemicals."


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then asked where I was stationed in the US. After telling him where I went for Basic Training, his reply is "You need to apply for service connected. That's one of the bases they shut down due to toxic chemicals."

Hmm... Did tat base have anything to do with a guy named Andrew?

Jeff.
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then asked where I was stationed in the US. After telling him where I went for Basic Training, his reply is "You need to apply for service connected. That's one of the bases they shut down due to toxic chemicals."

Oh dear. :O


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Thus spake Blue:

Charles Pierson wrote to All <=-

then asked where I was stationed in the US. After telling him where I
went for Basic Training, his reply is "You need to apply for service
connected. That's one of the bases they shut down due to toxic
chemicals."

Oh dear. :O

That just makes the Trifecta. Potential Chemical Exposure from Basic Training,
potential Mad Cow exposure from being in Europe in the 80s, and who knows what
from being in the Gulf War.

Life is beautiful.


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Anyway he's suggesting some positions for me to apply for, things like that. While we are talking, he asks if I have a service connected disability, which officially I haven't been classified with yet. He
then asked where I was stationed in the US. After telling him where I went for Basic Training, his reply is "You need to apply for service connected. That's one of the bases they shut down due to toxic chemicals."

Sorry to hear about that. My father is a Vietnam War Veteran. They told him that "agent orange" was "perfectly safe". Well, it is no state secret that it causes cancer, and my Dad ended up coming down with Non-Hodgkins Limphoama.
He had chemo and beat the cancer, but now he has permanent neuropathy due to damage from the chemo.

As you might imagine, I'm not very trusting of "government" or "the system"
and with the epidemic of modern incompetence, that seems to be a sentiment
that is catching on with many people like wild fire, and rightly so.

My Dad is always in constant pain and he is only able to do things for
roughly 4 hours a day before he is completely wiped out and needs to relax in bed. Well, as much as one can relax with the amount of pain he is in, at any rate.

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