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USA Presidential Election 2016: Vice Vice Baby
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If RNC leaks do happen, it would at least put a pretty huge dent in the "Wikileaks and Russia have a more-than-cordial working relationship" theory.
Personally, I'm expecting the Trump campaign post-mortems on Nov 9th and after (or even before) to be absolutely epic. I expect campaign staffers to be lining up to write books about it.
At the very least. If RNC leaks happened I think Fox News would have to fold and multiple people might go to jail.
Uh, holy shit Weaver.
Can any of our other military folks shed some light, maybe?
you wanna jump off a cliff together like two forbidden lovers?
Yeah this seems like the sort of thing you would want to contact somebody about? I mean maybe it's a giant paperwork fuck up, but that seems like it would still screw you hard.
I dunno who exactly you would contact, maybe a congressional representative? maybe there's a local veteran's group?
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Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Also I always found something disquieting and irresponsible about wikileaks, even beyond the assange stuff, just the concept of it i felt was wrongheaded and was too convinced of its own righteousness.
It's hard for me to talk about this without getting into the inside baseball. I can understand why it might feel like a conspiracy is going on here, but I don't think you need to worry.
If a deployment is on your DD-214 it's on your DD-214, and the main thing we care about is whether or not you were in theater-- in a very broad sense of in theater.
Whatever someone wrote in eBenefits doesn't excuse anyone from reading your DD-214. There are various ways to see your records so I don't know if you're looking directly at your personnel records or using eBenefits. If VA requested your personnel records then that's what someone is going to look at (to include your 214) when deciding your claim.
The lockheed martin company-- That's QTC. QTC is supposed to stand for "Quality, Timeliness, Customer Service."
I don't want to talk about QTC itself or their customer service, or how/why they conduct exams the way they do. I think It's valuable for individual veterans to voice their experiences about the exam process and I think that it is definitely important people know what veterans experience during the exam process.
As far as the checklist goes, VA uses a relatively specific set of criteria, and to find which of those symptoms apply VA uses the exam, outside treatment records, and VA outpatient treatment records. Ultimately the goal of a schedule like that is to make sure that someone with one fact pattern gets the same decision as someone else with an identical fact pattern. Given that the law doesn't allow VA to just say "this guy seems like he's 50% disabled" with no basis, there has to be some sort of way to evaluate according to that schedule.
So, any medical evidence is obtained with those criteria in mind.
Back in 2009, VA made it much easier to grant service connection for PTSD by altering one part of the regulations. (38 CFR 3.304(f)3 if you really want to read it-- I'll give you the short version)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can be granted on the basis of a fear of hostile military or terrorist activity now. Basically the difference between this process and how VA used to process PTSD claims is that VA doesn't need to confirm a specific event.
Provided:
1. There's a diagnosis of PTSD made by the VA examiner
2. There's evidence that the veteran served in a theater of operations potentially subject to hostile military or terrorist activity (I'd include Uzbekistan in this category anyway), and VA also looks at stuff like do you have a GWOT medal.
3. The examiner indicates that the PTSD is related to a fear of hostile military or terrorist activity.
That's a grant. Full stop.
It's rare that 2 and 3 are absent. The main sticking point here is #1
If the examiner gives the rating specialist a diagnosis of say, unspecified anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder, VA can't grant on the basis of a fear of hostile military or terrorist activity. VA can still grant the non PTSD disorder, but then VA has to verify an event that caused the condition, (this is on the same logic of having records confirm some sort of injury in service), or figure out some reason why a diagnosis of PTSD is a better diagnosis than the one the examiner gave.
I hope that your stuff gets worked out with VA.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
And I don't have my GWOT campaign medal because I'd switched units and was on my way out for medical discharge before the award was established.
edit: Read your post again more closely and man I hope they stick to my actual DD 214.
Also, my PTSD, I'm scared of everyone all the fucking time. With some anti-anxiety pills and some gumption I'm able to mostly fake holding shit together but does the VA take into account, re: "fear of hostile military or terrorist activity", fear of the actual army your served in? If I don't knock myself out at night my nightmares and night terrors largely involve the army dragging me back into the fight to perform worse and worse atrocities. We took enemy fire, yeah, totally ineffective, but it was the air force that bombed us. That targeted us with an AC-130 that had already killed a Northern Alliance team.
I'm just scared man.
It looks bad because the whole point is to see what the party wants, and if you're just going to pick someone like an 1800s boss then the primary seems like you're just paying lip service to democracy.
I'm glad she's out. Besides fucking up the primary, I hear she did a pretty shitty job handling the 2014 midterms.
Also why do I always get the feeling people who hate Jews have never met a Jewish person in real life?
To be fair:
They've already had some of their stuff confirmed at the RNC. Hearing more or hearing it again just solidifies things.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/bomb-attack-southern-germany
and that happens a day after a german of iranian descent shot up a mcdonald's, killing 9
the blast in the article above is also by a syrian asylum seeker
germany's been a bastion of continental european social openness towards muslims and immigrants for a good long while now
it's possible things could change
Agreed
But
With the way US politics work or don't work with the two parties or GTFO system
Every election is going to very close
Last I checked, Hillary still got about 3 million more votes. So it's fairly safe to say that she is who the party wanted.
It appears that some of the DNC staff got sick of Bernie calling them corrupt every other day, but I don't see anywhere that they took action against him.
That being said, DWS was a bad leader for several other reasons. So it's good that she stepped down, but I'm pretty sure she was on her way out anyway.
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Jesus, I used to do security and non-alc sales at a nightclub that covered events like that during the summer months; you have to be a special kind of rat bastard to target teenagers.
HORSE RACE HORSE RACE HORSE RACE
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Man what are we as a county going to do about our violence problem?
MORE GUNS
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Hopefully not because both of those incidents had nothing to do with Islamic terror. The 18 year old boy who shot 9 people was of Iranian decent, but he actually followed right wing groups and was a bit of a weirdo who was obsessed with mass shootings and the far right wing like Anders brevick.
Also the machete attack was domestic violence, he attacked a coworker he was in a relationship with, I think she was pregnant with either his kid or he was in some kind of relationship with her. He attacked her first and killed her then went on a rampage
GTFO the vote
At this point I'm not so sure this is just the media drumming up a horse race.
God I hope Bernie's speech today puts out some of the fires from this email crap and doesn't add gasoline instead.