HOW TO DEAL with the DVA before violence:

HOW TO DEAL with the DVA before violence:

Well, it is all like a big stupid game. Like combat in a way I guess. The other side has to do their thing, and our side has to do our thing.

The difference is patience. In combat, their is little time for patience. Sure patience may be a good tactic, but pretty much the actual fighting goes along at a pretty good pace.

For the VA, we have us who know what we have done and what we deserve out of the govt. On their side, we have bean headed civilians that don't understand a thing about the Army. Although by now they probably do have a good understanding, but they have their processes to go through before letting Veterans get their due worth.

So it takes a long time to get anything resolved. What seems straightforward to us, apparently baffles the VA civilians. We put in a claim for a disability pension, and I think their first IA is to doubt everything we have included as evidence.

Being mentally unsound isn't proven until you have a shrink type diagnose you with it. Being handicapped physically is nothing if you can't prove it is a result of an accident that occured during your service.

Of course a lot of us old dudes never went to the medics or sick parade for anything. I'm sure that 95 % of us have had concussions that would make Sir Sydney Crosby sit in a puddle and make a jacuzzi by repeated passing of gas.

So they don't take your word for anything. Everything must be recorded and written down. And luckily these days, the soldiers and their leadership realize this and send the troops to the medics for every little injury - because you never know when/if it may benefit them in the future.

I told a friend of mine recently to think that it is not DVA that is bothering him, but that he is bothering them. It is going to take a lot of time, sure, but most things involving money takes time (not including the lottery that is).

If you have a good case for why you should be compensated, then keep on phoning the DVA, and when you get refused a pension, keep on appealing it. The bureau of pension advocates is a great resource for us, makes me wonder why they even exist sometimes.

That being said, they don't give anything away without a good reason. Being in the Armoured Corps for x amount of years doesn't give you a pension for your knees, or back. It is sometimes too late for us, but I think the young troops are getting cared of much better than we were in the day. And that is not a slight against our leaders back then, they didn't know any better than us.

Any way that is my opinion.

Plus - The governement seems to think they are providing adequate compensation for its returning vets of the Afghan war, and vets in general. That is hogwash. The new veterans charter is an abomination, and that the govt brought that in during wartime is a fucking embarrassement and fuckery.

If you have a case and adequate docs to back up your position, keep on bothering the DVA. Don't get upset and lose control. Stay the course until the end.