mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1122 - 15 messages in this issue

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Subject: [mrgrg-ms-talk] Digest Number 1122

There are 15 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Emailing: what is new on http://diodon349.com/ today, 03-...
From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com>
2. [Fwd: Another Congressional Betrayal handed Warriors, Spouses, and Widows] From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
3. NAUS Weekly Update for March 31, 2006 From: James Ret <alamostation@yahoo.com>
4. Brown Bag/FAX A REP Summary From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
5. [Fwd: Pelosi and Edwards Statements on TRICARE] From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
6. (unknown) From: "Ray Boyden" <RayBoyden@msn.com>
7. The enemy is here! From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
8. Re: The enemy is here! From: Vike2001@aol.com
9. Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA. From: "Hal Cleveland" <hal.cleveland@charter.net>
10. E-mail address for the Budget Committee From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
11. Re: Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA. From: Jack Hollinsworth <jackhollinsworth@yahoo.com>
12. RE: Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA. From: "Hal Cleveland" <hal.cleveland@charter.net>
13. The Col. George E. "Bud" Day Department of Military Science and ROTC at Okaloosa-Walton College From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
14. [Fwd: MOAA Update: MOAA Storms Hill] From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
15. [Fwd: lonestargrp: Veteran seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim.] From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>


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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:13:01 -0500 From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: Emailing: what is new on http://diodon349.com/  today, 03-...

Good Morning all,

This is the same one we were using before. TPC is "The Phone Company". The iddd is International Distance Direct Dialing.

http://tinyurl.com/dyn24  Chapter 29 Fulfillment Free Services The leading free FAX gateway service, TPC.INT, was experimental and has been discontinued. The results of the experiment are archived and can be obtained by sending e-mail to tcpfaq@info.tpc.int.

The TPC approach allowed a user to send a message to, for instance, remote-printer.  Arlo_Cats/Room_123@12025551234.iddd.tpc.int.  The TPC.INT service pulled out the phone number (in this case 1-202-555-1234) and then looked up the area code and exchange in a coverage list. If it found a cooperating cell serving that area, it sent the message to that cell. Once at the cell, the remote-printer service used the message information to build a cover sheet-in this case, the following:

Arlo_Cats Room 123

The TPC software is still available; many universities and a few companies offer the service for their local areas. A recent copy of the fax-faq file cited above lists free services in the following locations:


Have a good one, Jean
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From: Floyd Sears
To: mrgrg-ms-talk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [mrgrg-ms-talk] Emailing: what is new on http://diodon349.com/ today, 03-...


Morrie:

I used " http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html  " and sent a FAX to myself. I got this web page response when I sent the FAX.

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Fax Sent by Mail Your message has been sent by email to remote-printer.Floyd_Sears@12283969830.iddd.tpc.int

When the fax is sent, a confirmation message will be sent to fsears@bellsouth.net

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As you can see I'm suppose to get an e-mail conformation when the FAX is sent, and I should also get a FAX. I sent (e-mailed) the FAX about 15 minutes ago and nothing has happened yet. I'll let you know if I get anything.

Floyd

Vike2001@aol.com wrote:

I found another site that MIGHT be a good FREE FAX VIA WEB site... I've used it, but, as of yet, have no confirmation of receipt... If anyone uses it and finds out that it is a valid site, I'd sure appreciate getting the confirmation

http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html 

Morrie B. C.S. CO


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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:02:48 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: Another Congressional Betrayal handed Warriors, Spouses, and Widows]

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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:06:23 -0800 (PST)
From: James Ret <alamostation@yahoo.com>
Subject: NAUS Weekly Update for March 31, 2006

Kimberly Stanish <kstanish@naus.org> wrote:
Subject: NAUS Weekly Update for March 31, 2006 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:13:14 -0500
From: "Kimberly Stanish" <kstanish@naus.org>
To: "Naus" <Naus@naus.org>

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIFORMED SERVICES WEEKLY UPDATE FOR 31 March 2006 http://www.naus.org

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

 ~Jim Ryun~ ___________________________________________________________________________________

WASHINGTON REPORT

NAUS President MG William Matz testifies on TRICARE increases

On Wednesday, NAUS President MG William Matz testified before the House Subcommittee on Personnel, chaired by Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), regarding the proposed Pentagon plan to increase TRICARE premium fees and co-pays to under-age-65 retirees and their families.

Matz presented the testimony on behalf of The National Military Veterans Alliance, an association of 29 military organizations and veterans groups representing nearly 3.5 million servicemembers, including active duty, National Guard, Reserve, military retirees, veterans, families and survivors.

During testimony, Matz told the panel that the proposed TRICARE increases were excessive by any measure. He said, "Approving the Pentagon plan would demonstrate that the promised earned benefits of a military career are no longer a national priority...it's the wrong signal, especially in a time of war, and would adversely affect retention and recruitment."

Matz asked the subcommittee to help sort out national spending priorities telling the panel that members of The Alliance questioned the priority of asking military retirees to pay more for the care they earned in a lifetime of armed service and defense of freedom, while spending, for instance, $1 billion on a 4-year program to pay the medical bills for illegal aliens. He asked, "Does illegal alien health care trump care for military retirees?"

Matz also expressed concern that current law grants DoD authority to put their plan in force without congressional action. To block this possible move, he called on Congress to intervene and enact HR 4949, the Military Retirees' Health Care Protection Act, to give Congress time to block any fee increase unless specifically approved by Congress.

NAUS Note: To see the entire testimony CLICK HERE. We urge you to continue to flood your elected officials with email, regular mail, faxes, phone calls and even in person. CLICK HERE to go to our website and send a message. We believe that we can win this issue and force DOD to back down. But your help is needed and we very much appreciate your assistance!!!!

House Budget Committee Rejects Chet Edwards Amendment

On Wednesday, the House Budget Committee rejected an amendment to the House Budget Resolution by Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) to bump up the amount for the DOD healthcare budget by $735 million. Edwards offered the amendment to block the Administration's plan to sharply increase annual fees and prescription drug copays for retirees using the Department of Defense military healthcare system. The amendment failed on a straight party line vote 15-22.

Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle (R-IA) tried to explain away the vote saying that the Committee's job was to set the overall federal spending cap, not to set specific policy. Decisions on policy, he said, are the work of authorizing and appropriations committees.

Moments later, however, the Chairman's logic left the room when the Committee approved an amendment offered by Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH) to block the Administration's proposal to increase enrollment fees and prescription drug copays for veterans using the Department of Veterans' Affairs health care system. The Bradley amendment for a $795 million increase in veterans funding was approved on a bipartisan vote of the Committee.

NAUS appreciates the vote to approve the Bradley amendment. However, we condemn the vote to reject the Edwards amendment. We agree with Rep. Edwards who said, "...keeping our promise of quality, affordable health care for military retirees is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do...our nation has a moral obligation to keep our promises to those who have kept their promise to defend our nation."

NAUS Note: We recognize that the Budget vote is not the final word on this matter. However, we are astounded that an opportunity to signal that benefits earned by military retirees are a priority was rejected by the Budget Committee, yet they approved a bump for veterans funding. NAUS believes that Congress, at the earliest opportunity, should make it clear that the plan by DOD to increase TRICARE premium costs is not the proper way to proceed, especially during a time of war.

Longtime Veterans Advocate to Retire

This week Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL) announced his retirement from Congress. A Marine Corps veteran, Rep. Evans has always been one of the strongest advocates for veterans on the Hill. For twelve terms his tireless efforts have not always been successful, but he continued to champion legislation to better the lives of veterans and their families.

In 1998 Rep. Evans announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but was told by doctors that he should be able to continue on in Congress for a long while. This week he announced that his disease had progressed to a point where he must concentrate more on his health than on his political career. After completing work in this Congress, he will not seek re-election

NAUS wishes Rep. Evans the best and wants him to know that veterans around the country deeply appreciate his strength of commitment and will miss his service in the United States House of Representatives. Semper Fi Mr. Evans!

NAUS on the Hill

This week NAUS President William Matz and Legislative Director Rick Jones attended the third annual US Senate Guard and Reserve Caucus breakfast, hosted by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Sen. Marc Prior (D-AR). Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs Thomas F. Hall and military leaders of the Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine and Coast Guard reserve addressed the morning event and provided a brief assessment of funding, equipment, training and related needs of the force.

In conversation with NAUS and the other military groups in attendance, Senator Chambliss said he would aggressively pursue legislation to allow reserve retirement before age 60 and thought this would be the year for his efforts to succeed and begin reserve retired pay at an earlier age. NAUS strongly supports his effort.

President Matz and Director Jones also met with Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. NAUS thanked Sen. Akaka for his long-time advocacy for the military and discussed with him the need to ensure adequate funding for veterans and military health care. The Senator was very receptive to NAUS view on these matters as they adversely impact many of his constituents.

Director Jones also met with Rep. Thelma Drake (R-VA) and Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), both members of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Personnel. Reps. Drake and Hayes indicated they had received thousands of messages from NAUS members and other retirees about the Pentagon plan to increase retiree-costs for earned benefits. Hayes said, "We're going to do everything we can and a little more to get the best results." Drake, who chaired a large portion of the hearing, told Jones that she opposed the DoD plan and had received more than 4,000 messages opposed to it, too.

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HEALTH CARE NEWS

TRICARE Online Update

(TMA Fact Sheet)

TRICARE Online.com is the Department of Defense Internet medical portal that provides TRICARE beneficiaries with secure, interactive, one-stop-shopping access to a host of unique and exciting services, tools and resources.

TRICARE Online.com allows beneficiaries to take control of their family's health care needs. Why a dotcom? Only a dotcom can provide unconstrained, universal access from any computer or laptop in the world - dot.mil may not always be accessible because of geographic and security restrictions. But, TRICAREOnline.com is always accessible.

Features of the website include: · Real-time, online military treatment facility appointing-for primary care and certain self-referral appointments · Rx Checker-for drug interactions and side effects

· TRICARE health care-claims, benefits, enrollment and other entitlement information · Personal Health Journal-users record and update their own medical information, such as immunizations, test results, treatment instructions, medications and more; printouts make medical history forms faster, easier and more accurate

· Medical library-provides a variety of databases for the latest information about pharmaceuticals, symptoms, illnesses, surgical and diagnostic procedures.

· Health and wellness-links to women's, men's, children's and teen's health; aging and health; food and nutrition; sports and fitness; mental health; sexuality and health; alternative medicine and health; medications; traveler's health, articles from the New England Journal of Medicine and more

· Healthy life style tools-programs such as smoking cessation and health calculators for individual, overall health assessments

· Facility and clinic pages-information about each facility, its clinics, hours, driving directions and more

· Provider pages-Credentialed providers' individual pages feature their education, clinical background, and care and treatment philosophies

Future features will include:

· Pharmacy refills

· Routine pharmacy renewal requests via secure messaging

· Routine lab test requests via secure messaging

· Online TRICARE enrollments

· Secure patient and provider messaging

· Appointment reminders · Health assessments

· Beneficiary access to key portions of their electronic health record

For more information beneficiaries may visit http://www.tricareonline.com  or call stateside customer service at 1-800-600-9332 or (210) 767-5250 (direct). Agents are available 24 hours a day to assist beneficiaries. Overseas users may refer to the applicable numbers below.

For Access From Access Number

Belgium Germany Greece Guam Italy Japan Korea - U.S. Army installations Korea - All other installations Netherlands Panama Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom
0800-72115 0800-1011129 00800-12-5629 1-866-637-8725 800-782407 00531-1-20743 550-6474 (MHSH) 00798-14-800-5242 0800-0228847 001-800-507-1669 800-8-12305 900-951895 00-800-151-1005 08-005871786
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ACTIVE DUTY NEWS

Operation Purple Camp Registration Open

Again this year the National Military Family Association will be operating Operation Purple camps during the summer. Designated by the color purple, which indicates "all services," these camping experiences offer a free week of summer fun for kids with deployed parents. They have expanded to over 30 weeks of camps, which will be held at locations all over the country. Although the normal camp fun will be offered there will be a focus on learning coping skills to better deal with a parent's deployment.

Registration began on March 15 and continues through May 15. To sign up go to the Operation Purple site where you will see a map. Choose the state in purple closest to you and click on it. It will show you the sites available, dates and have links to download applications and other important information. Although there are more sites this year, they are filling rapidly so take advantage of this great opportunity soon!

http://www.nmfa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=camp_locations 

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NAUS NEWS

Retiree Day at Dover, AFB NAUS President Matz will be the keynote speaker at the Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware Retiree Appreciation Day on Saturday April 8, 2006. If you live in the Dover area make plans now to come and listen to MG Matz and take advantage of all the opportunities to get some very good information. MG Matz will be presenting a very good, up to date legislative briefing. The day's activities start at 0800. Come by and say "Hello" to General Matz.
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Message: 4 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:13:21 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Brown Bag/FAX A REP Summary

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Message: 5 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:03:26 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: Pelosi and Edwards Statements on TRICARE]

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Message: 6 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:48:36 -0500
From: "Ray Boyden" <RayBoyden@msn.com>
Subject: (unknown)

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Message: 7 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:25:30 EST
From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
Subject: The enemy is here!

"Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)"

Republicans in the Senate think the illegal aliens who hung our flag upside down, under the Mexican flag, should be allowed to become Americans? They should have been checked for green cards and deported on the spot if they weren't Americans.

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Excerpt Of The Day: A Brilliant Proposal To Deal With Car Theft.

"His Majesty thinks that it´s about time that Congress adopts a responsible, reasonable and realistic approach to the scourge of vehicular theft or, as we prefer to call it, undocumented possession of an automobile.

For too long, we´ve ignored this problem, creating criminals out of hard-working car thieves undocumented drivers and with very little to show for it. Indeed, for the last decade or so, about 1,200,000 undocumented drivers have been reported every year with absolutely no signs of the number going down.

...Obviously, there is no realistic way that our prison systems can accommodate 12,000,000 undocumented drivers, as some extremist pedestrophobes have suggested. And, of course, that would mean that we´d have to catch them all in the first place, which I think that it´s pretty obvious that we can´t.

Besides, as a nation of highly mobile people living in a vast area where transportation is vitally important, it goes completely against the values upon which we founded this society of ours to adopt such draconian measures against undocumented drivers who, let´s face it, just want a piece of the American Dream, feeling the wind in their hair as they race down the Interstate.

...So I propose that Congress, sooner rather than later, gather to decriminalize undocumented possession of an automobile. Under my program, undocumented drivers will be allowed to drive unattended automobiles that nobody wants to drive at the moment anyway and, after a three year period of driving responsibly, will be given the title to the vehicle in question.

Irresponsible, extremist, hateful and plainly un-American critics have suggested that this is unfair to those who´ve worked hard to gain documented possession of an automobile or even that such a program will discourage purchase of cars and encourage undocumented driving.

To them I say... Well, I´m going to say something, as soon as I can come up with a brilliant retort. Rest assured, however, that it´ll include the words "racist", "elitist", "snob", " pedestrophobe", "totalitarian" and "doo-doo head", not necessarily in that order.

...With this visionary program, I foresee that car theft will become a thing of the past in short order."

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Message: 8 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:36:35 EST
From: Vike2001@aol.com
Subject: Re: The enemy is here!

In a message dated 3/31/06 1:27:29 PM Mountain Standard Time, PAULKARREN@aol.com writes:

"Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)"

YEP, THIS is the despicable condition to which the Godless-left-wing-LIEBERAL demoncRATS have brought this ONCE-GREAT nation of ours !!!!! And the thing is, they aren't satisfied yet... They want us to sink even further into their, AND THEIR Comrade's, thoughts of what America's future should look like !!!!!

DON'T EVER forget how long, and desperately, they TRIED to get the below flag flying over the White House and the rest of the United States of America !!!!!

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/s/su.gif

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Message: 9 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:17:58 -0600
From: "Hal Cleveland" <hal.cleveland@charter.net> Subject: Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA.

Please pass this to all your nets.

I am passing this along as a favor to a local veteran. He is trying to get service connection for Diabetes as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. Any of you in the registry that can help this veteran out can contact him at tdricherson@yahoo.com or his snail mail and phone number in the text of his message. I am sure he would appreciate any assistance with filing for his claim. He has been turned down twice by the VA based on the conversation I had with him.

Hal Cleveland Burleson, Texas

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From: Teresa Richerson [mailto:tdricherson@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:07 AM
To: hal.cleveland@charter.net Subject:

Dear Mr. Cleveland

I spoke to you on the phone last night and am following up with this email. I was in the 809th Engineer Battalion (Army) stationed in Thailand from 1969-1971. My main station was Camp Ruam Chit Chai. However I was all over the country building roads. The one place I am sure I was exposed to Agent Orange is Nakhon Phanom (NKP).

I actually saw the chemical sprayed and saw the vegetation die. We were assured there was no danger and it made our work easier. Although we saw the vegetation die all over the jungle while building roads we never questioned the Army. My main camp was 50km from NKP. Any help you can forward me in my quest to prove Agent Orange exposure would be appreciated.

Thomas Bjork
817-648-0093
1300 Shannon Dr. Cleburne, Texas 76031
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Message: 10 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:54:46 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: E-mail address for the Budget Committee

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Message: 11 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:33:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Jack Hollinsworth <jackhollinsworth@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA.

If he has Diabetes, and has served in Viet Nam, he is in. All it takes is to prove Diabetes with a blood test and mil records of being in Nam. It is automatic, 10% with out medication 20% taking medication. Other claims is numbness in the feet and legs 20% each leg with pain 40% each leg. 10% if he has ED.

Jack H

Hal Cleveland <hal.cleveland@charter.net> wrote: Please pass this to all your nets.

I am passing this along as a favor to a local veteran. He is trying to get service connection for Diabetes as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. Any of you in the registry that can help this veteran out can contact him at tdricherson@yahoo.com or his snail mail and phone number in the text of his message. I am sure he would appreciate any assistance with filing for his claim. He has been turned down twice by the VA based on the conversation I had with him.

Hal Cleveland Burleson, Texas
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From: Teresa Richerson [mailto:tdricherson@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:07 AM
To: hal.cleveland@charter.net
Subject:

Dear Mr. Cleveland

I spoke to you on the phone last night and am following up with this email. I was in the 809th Engineer Battalion (Army) stationed in Thailand from 1969-1971. My main station was Camp Ruam Chit Chai. However I was all over the country building roads. The one place I am sure I was exposed to Agent Orange is Nakhon Phanom (NKP).

I actually saw the chemical sprayed and saw the vegetation die. We were assured there was no danger and it made our work easier. Although we saw the vegetation die all over the jungle while building roads we never questioned the Army. My main camp was 50km from NKP. Any help you can forward me in my quest to prove Agent Orange exposure would be appreciated.

Thomas Bjork
817-648-0093
1300 Shannon Dr. Cleburne, Texas 76031


HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE MILITARY THERE WOULD BE NO AMERICA SAVE MONEY ON LONG DISTANCE. AS LOW AS 2.5 CENTS PER MIMUTE. CLICK ON THE BELOW "ULR" ADDRESS, SELECT BEST RATE CALULATOR AND FIGURE THE COST FOR YOUR SELF. START SAVING TODAY.

Use the ULR below.
(http://ld.net/retiredmil). Jack Hollinsworth

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Message: 12 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:55 -0600
From: "Hal Cleveland" <hal.cleveland@charter.net>
Subject: RE: Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA.

Jack, he tells me that he served in Thailand and that is the problem. He says he saw it used yet Thailand is not a presumptive country.

Hal
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From: mrgrg-ms-talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mrgrg-ms-talk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Hollinsworth
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 11:33 PM
To: mrgrg-ms-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mrgrg-ms-talk] Veterans seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim with the VA.

If he has Diabetes, and has served in Viet Nam, he is in. All it takes is to prove Diabetes with a blood test and mil records of being in Nam. It is automatic, 10% with out medication 20% taking medication. Other claims is numbness in the feet and legs 20% each leg with pain 40% each leg. 10% if he has ED. Jack H

Hal Cleveland <hal.cleveland@charter.net> wrote:

Please pass this to all your nets.

I am passing this along as a favor to a local veteran. He is trying to get service connection for Diabetes as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. Any of you in the registry that can help this veteran out can contact him at tdricherson@yahoo.com or his snail mail and phone number in the text of his message. I am sure he would appreciate any assistance with filing for his claim. He has been turned down twice by the VA based on the conversation I had with him.

Hal Cleveland Burleson, Texas -----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Richerson [mailto:tdricherson@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:07 AM To: hal.cleveland@charter.net
Subject:

Dear Mr. Cleveland I spoke to you on the phone last night and am following up with this email. I was in the 809th Engineer Battalion (Army) stationed in Thailand from 1969-1971. My main station was Camp Ruam Chit Chai. However I was all over the country building roads. The one place I am sure I was exposed to Agent Orange is Nakhon Phanom (NKP).

I actually saw the chemical sprayed and saw the vegetation die. We were assured there was no danger and it made our work easier. Although we saw the vegetation die all over the jungle while building roads we never questioned the Army. My main camp was 50km from NKP. Any help you can forward me in my quest to prove Agent Orange exposure would be appreciated.

Thomas Bjork
817-648-0093
1300 Shannon Dr. Cleburne, Texas 76031

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE MILITARY THERE WOULD BE NO AMERICA

SAVE MONEY ON LONG DISTANCE. AS LOW AS 2.5 CENTS PER MIMUTE. CLICK ON THE BELOW "ULR" ADDRESS, SELECT BEST RATE CALULATOR AND FIGURE THE COST FOR YOUR SELF. START SAVING TODAY. Use the ULR below.

http://ld.net/retiredmil

Jack Hollinsworth


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Message: 13 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:21:12 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: The Col. George E. "Bud" Day Department of Military Science and ROTC at Okaloosa-Walton College

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Message: 14 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:40:27 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: MOAA Update: MOAA Storms Hill]

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Message: 15 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:48:00 -0600
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: lonestargrp: Veteran seeking assistance with Agent Orange - Diabetes Claim.]

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