July 10, 2025 • 56 mins
Veterans United Outreach Services is the topic of conversation with Pamela Pullins CEO on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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I A I am Bev. It is Thursday, July tenth,
twenty twenty five. I am excited to have our next
guest in the studio. And I told you all to
be listening veterans. If you're not a vesteran, you need
to listen. And so when it's your attorney talk, you
may have some questions for my guests. Nine zero one,
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and five zero three nine three four two eight three
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get you in to us. We are going to learn
today about the Veterans United Outreach Services b u OS
and I don't know if you've all heard of that.
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I haven't, but I'm I want to learn about it
and meet the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services,
Miss Pamela Pullins. Good afternoon to you, Pamela Pullins.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
How are you good afternoon? I am awesome, so happy
to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You look awesome, Thank good, thank you.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
So excited here to talk about veterans.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm so glad to have you here. Before we talk
about that, tell our listeners a little bit about Pamela pullitants.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Well, Pamela grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. What yes, Yes,
memphisis home for me. Left home, went to the military,
spent twenty years in the military.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No you didn't, Yeah I did.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What service?
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Army? Army?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, I did that. And then after leaving the Army,
I went and I started working for the Department of Defense.
And from there I went and got all my different degrees,
okay and social work. Just wanted to be an advocate
for veterans, and I began working with the VA as
a raid adjudicator. And while working there, I realized that
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I didn't need to be on the inside. I needed
to be on the outside or I could make a difference.
And that's exactly what I I did. I worked there
for about two years in Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ohly I know Jackson Well, oh yeah, yeah, at the
I love is there state.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
That's that's my that's my school, that's where that's my
I got my master's there, That's where I got my masters. Yeah,
so we have something in come out awesome. So left
there in twenty nineteen, moved to South Carolina, and uh,
that's where I got started really just advocating for veterans
to get the benefits that they truly deserve. Because we
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have so many veterans out here. They hear about others
getting their benefits, but they don't know how to go
about getting the benefits for themselves. So I am. I
chose myself. I decided that this is what I'm going
to do for my life and for the life lives
of others, to make sure that everyone I come in
contact with can get their one hundred percent. Because you
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serve you deserve. That's my motto. You serve you deserve.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh I love that, yes, and so so now you're
in South Carolina.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yes, I'm in Columbia, South Carolina, which is a great place.
I love it, but there is where that's where I
got my start, my huge start in twenty twenty one.
And god, I mean, it's been such a blessing to
be able to really give back to the veterans and
help them navigate through the system. Because you know the
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VA system, you know, whether good or bad, it's a
very complicated system. And when they send out these letters,
these decisions letters or whatever information they send to the veterans,
veterans really don't know how to respond. And because they
don't know how to respond, they end up getting denied.
If they get denied, they get frustrated and they don't
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want to continue. And I say to all veterans, don't stop.
Keep going. You're gonna run into somebody who's going to
be able to help you navigate through the system so
that you can get your one hundred percent disability because
it's there for us.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, let me ask this it may I call you Pamela.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Please please do so, Pamela.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You have these men and women who have served, yes
for this country.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yes, why.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm just gonna say why the hell, is it so
hard for them to get their bene. They're entitled to that,
aren't they?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, they are, they are. But the thing about it
is Congress has set it up in a way, in
such a way that you almost have to be on
your deathbed to get what you truly deserve. And what
I mean by that is if you don't have a
diagnosis for the condition that you are following a claim on,
they want to deny you. So a lot of people
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don't realize that. They don't understand that, especially with this
new thing that Biden put into effects that put into law,
the Pacact. Most people think that, oh, I got the
pack that well, that's just that's just a name. Do
you have the presumptive conditions as a result of being
in those locations? Do you have a diagnosis for those
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presumptive conditions. If you don't have a diagnosis, then they're
gonna deny you. What people fail to understand is you
need to go to the doctor and get diagnosed for
these conditions. And a lot of people walking around with
prostate cancer, all types of cancers because they were exposed
to burn pits, they were exposed to jet fuel. All
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that matters and people don't realize that you qualify. We
still have Vietnam veterans that was exposed to Agent Orange
that are out there that haven't fouled the claim at all.
And that's you know, that's insanity what I feel, huh
in my heart of hearts. I feel that VA doesn't
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do enough to tell the communities about what's available.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That's why I come in, all right, So I love that,
love that history, and you come in and so tell
our listeners about the veteran asy United Outreach Services.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
So we're we're a small company that started back in
twenty twenty one. As I stated earlier, I worked for
the VA as a rader, so I kind of know
my way around.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So what's a radar.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
A raider is a person who who just gonna get
your claim and they're gonna send you to a compensation
and pension exam to be evaluated. Once the evaluation comes back,
then that that radar adjudicator is going to determine whether
or not you qualify for the for the condition that
you're claiming. So they're gonna give you a percentage of
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what they what it is that you qualify for based
on your symptoms. Symptoms are everything, everything, everything. You can
have a diagnosis, but if you don't have the symptoms
to go along with it, that's where your percentage comes in.
So so you can have a diagnosis of headaches, but
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you don't have the symptoms of what headaches call us
for your life. Okay, so you're only getting a zero.
Zero's are good because you can always ask for an increase.
I know I'm just going digging in.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, no, no, but but I want you to explain
because I'm sure that are veterans and people who are
listening to you handling and they don't know this.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Yes, that's true, because I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Have a lot of veterans who call this show Wow
I do and who listen. Yes, So I do hope
they call it and ask you questions today. So I'm
just throwing if you're diagnosed with something, yes, but you
don't have the symptoms that that doesn't sound right. Well
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you know well to me and I don't know, it
doesn't sound right.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
And you're right, But the symptoms is what gives you
the higher percentage, and they're only going to go to
a certain amount. It's sometimes we can have elements in
our bodies. Uh, you know, just like let's say let's
say psycho logical elements mental, let's say depression. Okay, we
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can have situation or depression, but we don't have the
all the symptoms of what depression is.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Okay, I'm not isolating from my family. I'm still out
doing things.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Gotcha, gotcha, I understand.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
What you're saying, right exactly. So that's uh, that's basically
what they're looking for symptoms.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay. And and so with v u os, you all
are looking for these veterans or veterans come to you.
How does it work?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
So we we we actually we we word of mouth
is how we get our veterans. Someone gets taken care of,
get there one hundred percent. They tell another person, I'm
all over the country. I'm all over the country. I
don't I'm not in one specific area. I work with
people all over the matter of fact, all over the world.
I'm all the way in Dubai. Uh So what happens
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is what we do. We we just when people call us,
we get on it. We we go ahead from A
to Z. We take the information. We do an intake sheet,
trying to find out basic information on you. When you
serve how long you serve this, that and the other,
and then you'll have a consultation with me. I'll sit
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down and talk to you about whether or not your
claim is a claim that I can actually submit. Once
we decide that we can submit that claim, then you
come back to me again with after the appointment and
we sit down and we actually go through that claim
and we file that claim to v A and I
and I know people don't like to hear coach, but
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I kind of help you through the process because there
are a lot of things that you may not understand.
So I'm here to help you through the process so
that you can come walk out the door with one
hundred percent. Do you get one hundred percent the first time?
No VA, They're just like that, Okay, that's VA. And
sometimes it's on the individual because you may not have
gone into the CNP or a conversation and pension exam evaluation.
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You may I said the things that need to be said,
and so you don't get high rating because of that. However,
you know there's always a way around that because we'll
go back in and we'll look at what did you
do wrong? Did you what did you do right? What
did they do wrong? And then we go back in
and we fight. That's where the fight begins once you've
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been dis denied.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So the bottom line is what you all are doing
is helping veterans get their benefits.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Yes, that's exactly what we're doing. We helping veterans get
their benefits. And believe it or not, we have veterans
from from eighteen to ninety nine. I mean seriously, really,
yes we do. And you know, there are certain things
that you can claim with the VA that there's no
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age limit on it. Most of the things, really there's
no age limit. So I tell veterans all the time.
I get questioned about this, probably every day, what's going
to happen with the VA because all these cuts? Yeah, okay, yeah,
absolutely nothing. They Yeah, they have cut a lot of jobs.
A lot of people have left VA. However, VA is
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the one entity in the government that's only for veterans
who have or people who have served in the military.
Veterans only only government entity. So that VA is not
going anywhere. So while you're sitting down trying to figure
out whether or not to file a claim, right, you
better get that claim file because the VA is not
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going anywhere. So get that claim file because see, if
you stop filing claim, there's no reason for VA to exist.
So we need you to file your claim. Is that's
the only way it's going to exist. Otherwise they have
no reason. We can't take care of civilians. We can't.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Okay, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I can't file a claim on the civilian that's never served.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But it has to be a veteran.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
It has to be a veteran. The VA hospital can't
do any time type of work with a better a person,
a sybilion that's never served. So we need veterans to
go in apply for their benefits and and get what
you deserve because you did what others did not do.
You gave your time, your effort, you gave your all
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in all to be a part of something that was
so much bigger than you. So you deserve to get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And you think about I love you said that, Pamela,
And think about the veterans who lost their lives.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Oh my god, yes, yes you got. You got so
many of them out here that never saw this day.
You know, they never had an opportunity to even file
for anything because they lost their lives while they were
in action. You know, or whatever they may have been doing,
but they served and and and and because they did serve,
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you know, family members should be trying to go after
if they haven't already gotten it, go after be a
for some type of compensation.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I want, I want to go back at something you said.
The VA is not going anywhere, and and every day
we're hearing the government is cutting this and cutting that,
and that and and and people get discouraged. Famela and
I have a lot of veterans who call says, well,
I went to the VA and they're not doing this.
They won't listen to me. What do you say to
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those folks who go there and they're not getting what
they need to get to help them, especially with their health.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Well, I say to the veterans who go to the VA, yeah,
and they're not receiving the care that they feel they
should have. They need, they need to see patient advocate,
if patient advocate, So that's what it's called a patient
patient advocate.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
If they don't give you uh an answer that that
suffice that makes you feel like, okay, something's going to happen,
then you go to that director of the VA hospital.
He or she should have an open door policy. If
you cannot get in to see that person, then you
call your local congressman or your local center's office and
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file a complaint against the VA. You have that right.
VA has x amount of days to respond to you
in terms of getting you the care that you need.
You know, they do, they do, and a lot of
people don't understand that. They may tell you, oh, we
can't get you in to see an ophthalmologist for the
next ninety days. Well you tell them I want to
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go on the outside, because they have to do that.
And a lot of people don't understand that. A lot
of people who have lost lost their lives because they
were waiting on the VA to send them to a specialist,
specialty doctor. You don't have to do that. You don't
have to do that. You can ask them to send
you on the outside and they'll go ahead and pay
for that. Wow, but get it approved first, because if
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you go on your own, they're not gonna pay for
the exactly. So BA they do a lot of things
that are not good, but they have a lot of
programs that are good. They just don't tell you about it,
you know, and uh, knowledge is power.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
We all know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm glad you here, so you're telling us about it? Yes, yes,
if you just tuned in this afternoon, we are talking
with Miss Pamela Pullans, who is a veteran. She is
the CEO of Veterans United Outreach Services. If you have
a question or two for my guests, we invite you
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You're listening to Tennessee Radio Hall of Famer Bev Johnson
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The BEV J Just Show.
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You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And I'm talking with Miss Pamela Pullan's who is the
CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services and she is
a retired veteran and sister. I'm going to our phone lines.
They are lined up for you, and we go to
our phone lines to talk with Corey.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Hi, Corey, Good morning, Miss Johnson and Miss Pamela.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
Good afternoon, Corey.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
How are you well?
Speaker 11 (25:23):
Good afternoon. I'm sorry I'm doing unbelieving myself. I have
frequent questions of Miss Pamela mis Maimal said, if you're
getting one for PTSD left right need the nights of
the year, should you still even though you're getting one
hundred percent, should you pursued for one hundred percent for
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the other ailment?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Uh, I'm just gonna say this. Uh just simply said,
one hundred percent is the most you're gonna get.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Now.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Where you start getting other monies is when you start
getting special monthly compensation. So for instance, if you have
let's say, I don't know if I can say this
on the radio or not, but ed, okay, yes, yes,
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So if you're getting something such as that, ed, then yes,
there there's a special monthly compensation. If you lose an eye,
or you go blind, or you you you're lose an organ. Uh,
those things put you in another category of special monthly
compensation called them s m C and they go there
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there within the alphabet. So the higher you go, the
more you get paid.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
So that's that extra money that can take you way
up to eight ten thousand dollars, but as far as
one hundred percent, you can put all you want in there.
You're still gonna endo with a.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Hundred Yes, ma'am. I'm just saying, I want you know
if you could and uh, do your spouses continue receiving
the full amount in the case of my your transition.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Well only no, they don't. If let's say, for instance,
you pass away from a service connected disability. Uh, your
spouse will get half if they meet the requirements. There
are strict requirements. So if your your spouse is over
that threshold, and no they don't.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
So and last question, sir, miss uh fami. Okay, your
vai D that you get from the VA. You know
our daughter vectory should know. If you zero percent got
a vai D, you can call Nashville and get an
exchange privileges you're still authorized to go on the base.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
If you're at one hundred percent.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
Yes, no, ma'am, it's a zero First time Donald Trump
was in office, he passed the laws. You got any percentage,
you can call Nashville and get a exchange privilege letter
and you'll be allowed to go on like I say, here,
to Millington, to the Navy base.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Well, you're you're me on something that I haven't heard about.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am. I'm very astute, yes, ma'am. And
is the v A I D and well as my
do O D I D? Are they considered real? I
D no travel, No, they're not. Okay, Thank you Corey, Yes, ma'am,
thank you, thank you for the information with family. Y'all
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thank you you too. Bye bye.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
Hi James, Hi James, Hey, Hey your question.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You have a question for mss Pamela Pulladings.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Uh, I don't have a question. I got a comment.
I'm Vietnam version. I got drafted and I did. Now
you t s out of Vietnam then, uh. And I
been getting my benefits, oh about ten years now and
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I've been getting one hundred percent to last three or
four years.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Well, that's awesome, that's awesome. I'm glad to hear that.
I'm glad that they're taking care of your family.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
And read and I made it come in. I just
want to tell you, just like you said, when you
put in, you gotta consent. You gotta continue to go
whatever they ask you. You gotta do it. You cannot
miss no afformance or nothing, but you've got to continue.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
To do it.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yes, sir, I totally agree.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
I told you, I said, Okay, like I said, it
pays off. I've been getting that hundred cent last three
four years.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Get very good, Jans. Thank you James for listening.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:49):
Okay, all right, bye bye.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
Hi Thurman?
Speaker 13 (29:53):
All right, Bell, how you doing today?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'm doing well in yourself.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
And I want to say thank you to miss Pulling
for be on one there talking about the governments. I
was a former Air Force photographer and I was stationed
at Greenland, and I was also stationed in Korea, and
matter of fact, I was stationed on several countries while
I was in the Air Force. I got hurt coming
out of a helicopter in Greenland, also in Korea. And
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I also one of the gentlemen that worked with me
in the photo lab asked me to go to the
club with him one night, and I didn't go because
I had been on a flying mission as a photographer
and I had to come back and process my film.
And the next morning I went to check his door
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to go to breakfast and he never answered the door,
so I went on the breakfast time to find out.
I went to the photo lab and I asked, decided,
was he's there? Because one of the guys at breakfast
asked me had I seen him? And his name was
Joe and I said, no, I haven't seen him. And
so he said well and I said why. He said,
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because he helped me the last night he was going
to kill hisself. Oh wow, and so and so what
happened was, you know, I went on to the Foe
lab and I asked the sergeant. That's a serge, I said,
have you saying Joe here? He said, no, their, He said,
you know how y'all come traggling it in? He said why,
I said, because bron just came over to the breakfast
table and told us this morning that Joe's don't kill
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herself last night. And so I was in the dark
room process of my FAMI and I heard the sergeant
come running down the hallway. This is in Greenland now,
and what Trump was talking about? And uh he he said,
oh my god. I said, what's going on? Of course,
dark room? And I had to open the door. I said,
what's going on, sir? He said, Joe's hanging in there.
(31:43):
I say, hanging in where? He said, in the heating room.
And so I had to go in there and I said, oh,
my God, and so he had written on the piece
of paper sack maybe reincarnation, you know, to save time.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Why so your point, what point are you trying to make.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
I'm trying to make the point that, uh, I've had
PTSD because of that issue. And also I was this charge.
I was then put in the hospital and uh and
take her air Force base for three months and I
had cast on my from my hills to my ankles.
I have never and every time I try to get
some information about it at the VA, I run into
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all kinds of issues. All do I all my records?
It's all in my military records.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Okay, So so have you what is what is your percentage?
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Now?
Speaker 15 (32:30):
None?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Well you need to reach out to me.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I need to and Miss Pulling is going to give
her her phone number and websites so so you'll be
able to reach out to her therm and.
Speaker 13 (32:41):
Okay, okay, please, okay, welcome, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You, bye bye. Yeah, we yeah, we will, we will
do that. Might before I go to a nexton line.
Just let's give the numbers in the website. We're going
to do it again, okay. And so how how people
can get in touch with touch with you? Because I
had just got an email and they want please email
me your guest information. So a number and a website.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Okay, the numbers, oh god, I didn't write the website down,
but that's okay. The number, the number I think I
have the website, okay, the number is eight O three
eight O three seven six five seven six five zero
one six three zero one six.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Three eight o three seven six five zero one six three.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And I think I think this website I have v
U O s l l C dot com. That's it,
b like in Victory, y'all U O s l l
C dot com. And we'll we'll give those numbers again.
Going back to our phone lines to talk with you. Hi,
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m T.
Speaker 15 (33:51):
Hey Bevee Line Johnson.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm doing well today. How are you?
Speaker 14 (33:56):
M T.
Speaker 15 (33:57):
Beverly. I'm chilling great, I'm sick. This fixed and I'm
drawing social Security and doing It's just a blessing to
pay all those years attaining social curates and if you
live long enough, it'll pay off.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But I was yere and you have a question for yes,
I do have a question.
Speaker 15 (34:22):
Yes, I'm a veteran and I am a service conneked veteran,
and it took me a while to get But what
I'm doing or what I'm trying to find out, I'm
at seventy percent, but I should be at one hundred percent.
Speaker 16 (34:37):
So what I'm trying from this Miss Pamela Yes, yes, sir,
I'm wondering how is she gonna help and do the
process of me reaching one hundred because what I found
out what to me, it seems like in the state
of Tennessee, what they do, they discriminated just.
Speaker 15 (34:59):
The black veterans, but the white veterans. I got white friends.
They put in for claims and they be automatically approved.
So I think it's a lot to do with the
with the uh, with the demographic area that you live in.
But I am trying to uhuh which I know I've
(35:21):
ventured to will. But I'm gonna get in contact with
you on the screen of Miss Bev.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Lane, Beverly Lane Johnson, my sister, and hopefully you'll be
able to uh, you know, help you out in family,
help me to.
Speaker 15 (35:36):
Be one hundred.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
So, sir, first of all, let me just say this,
I don't want to believe that there is any discrimination
when it comes to adjudicating a claim for one thing,
you don't even know who you're adjudicating, and the claims
go all over the country, so they go into a queue.
No one knows who they're gonna get. So I'm just
(35:59):
saying that to make you feel a little bit better
about the process. Trust me, there may be other factors
the reason why you're not getting what you deserve. There
may be other factors involved in this. Uh, maybe something
that you didn't do when you went to your CNP exam.
It may be something they didn't annotate.
Speaker 12 (36:19):
So to just say that.
Speaker 15 (36:20):
There's this go to another the c exam.
Speaker 13 (36:24):
But I was, you know, like it was just gonna
let the VA handle.
Speaker 15 (36:29):
But with you, it's your organization. So how much what
do you charge you for what you assist in doing?
What do you charge?
Speaker 8 (36:37):
So there's no there's no way to really give a
fee because every case is different, just like when you
go to an attorney's office, every case is different, different,
there's a lot, there are a lot of things we
have to consider. So just call us and and we'll
talk to you. We'll do a consultation with you and
uh and we'll help you get to that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Thank you, MT and we'll give that number out, so
be listening to it.
Speaker 15 (37:01):
I've got it. Eight over three seven sixty five zero
one sixth three v u O l LC dot com.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Hello, somebody Hello, somebody empty empty got it? Prince of the.
Speaker 15 (37:15):
Charge shame Bill, How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Prince Okay, good, Miss Kamala, how are you doing today?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
I'm doing well, sir.
Speaker 15 (37:27):
Are you chrit I'm doing wonderful. I'm on the top show, trying.
Speaker 17 (37:31):
To remain it's coming. I got two questions for you
could actually get action those questions. The first question deals
with last year. Remember when when President Fike was in office,
He's send a mobile unit to major city to help
veterans get their missability.
Speaker 15 (37:50):
It was taking so long. Are they planning on doing
that again?
Speaker 10 (37:52):
On the Trump.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Industry that you know of, Well, they continue to do that.
It depends on the district, the area you're located in.
That comes from the VA regional office.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
They're the ones that send out the team to help
veterans in the community, and sometimes they go ahead. Well,
sometimes they do a great job. However, I wouldn't just
rely on that. I would more or less rely on
someone who really has the experience. They have the experience,
(38:27):
but they don't have the time. These guys are in
production and so they're moving really really fast, so they
may miss some things. So if you can get with
someone who can take the time to really look over
your claim and submit it the way in which it
needs to be submitted and give you some advice on
how to conduct yourself or how to work that claim,
(38:48):
then you'll have better results.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
I understand that I was trying to be one of
the ones when they came here is that Riverside office church,
but the line was so long they had a vestriss
who will keeping out uh days before they even showed
the pop star work or not the even to get
it in.
Speaker 15 (39:08):
And I'm still trying to you know, process by playing.
Now I have a question.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
I've spoke to you that there are a fee in
order to get it pass with your organization.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
Well, like I said, sir, everything is determined on based
on what it is that you have going on, what
you've done, what I need to do. So everything just
like an attorney's office. You know, we have to we
have to look at the situation and we'll base it on.
That may not even be a situation where I can
handle it. I don't know. To give out fees on
the phone would be unfair to everyone.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Right, Okay, thank you, Prince. Another question.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (39:45):
God.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
All right, thank you, thank you, Prince. Hi Frank, Hi, Frank.
I'm doing well, Frank, I'm doing well.
Speaker 18 (39:58):
Let me say that Jean really explaining things the ways
you really needs to be explained. But I want to
share something with her on these some on these cases
with the BA and and if they have a mob
(40:19):
on each case when they someone call in and uh,
you know, whatever they need or whatever going on, each
case has already been margged. And that's the only thing
I hate about America because we all and everything have
(40:45):
a mob on whatever week. If we're going to the doctor,
we're going to whatever we're trying to take care of.
Speaker 19 (40:53):
Each person is gonna be treated different because of that mob.
That the shot some food on people. It's sad, but
at the same time it's a good thing. People need
to really really pay your attention and and and and
(41:13):
let no one tell them that, uh, it's not what
it is. It is what it is, and it's going
to get worse before it get better.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Well wait, hope not. But that's why miss miss Fall,
miss Pullings is here with with her Veterans United outweed
services to help y'all. Do you have a specific question, Frank,
because we got we got folks hold it on and
and we want to get those questions.
Speaker 18 (41:41):
Well here's what, Well, I don't have anything to share.
Speaker 19 (41:46):
That's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Well, thank you Frank for sharing that. We appreciate that.
W D I a high caller.
Speaker 15 (41:55):
Hello Queen King, Harry over, Hey King, great, great, great topic.
Uh you know you know me, bib.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
I'm an advocate of helping veterans. And what MC said, No,
that's not true. They don't go by no colors. I'm
gonna tell you something. I've been helping a lot of people.
I can't be a VSO because I'm one hundred percent
disabled veterans, but i know the system and how it works,
and I've been helping a lot of people. If here's
the thing with blacks, and I think she mentioned that
just do it. Once you get a letter or they
(42:26):
deny you, you leave it alone and you just say
enough to be a and this and blah blah blah, blah. No,
you have to be consistent about what you want. You
have to be consistent about doing things. It's like tell people,
if there's there are seventy percent, you keep seventy percent,
and you got one on forty or more above, you
can file for TDIU Total disability individual on the playbuilding. Well,
(42:50):
all these different things. They have to look up, tough
up for themselves. You can't just sit back and wait.
And then people say, well, I ain't heard from them
in two three years.
Speaker 11 (42:58):
You ain't gonna hear from them if you don't call him.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
I used to call him every day.
Speaker 15 (43:03):
Yeah, you don't call him, they don't come you.
Speaker 10 (43:04):
They put it over that pile thirteen. They he ain't
really interested. And no, I'm an advocate in the American
Legion and m bet and I went to the National
last year and they're actually talking about going to Congress
and telling Congress that if a veteran has been out
ten years, were left and have not a file for
more and have not filed, they gonna cut him out
(43:25):
because they figured that if you ain't filed, you've been
out twenty years, then you don't want to file.
Speaker 15 (43:30):
That guy called me he got.
Speaker 10 (43:31):
Out of sixty five. He said, I know I got
this cancer and all this stuff from the military. I said,
you visited the viet No, why you know you got it?
And so yeah, son, be consistent.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, King Harrio and Penla, you said that you have
to stay on them.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 10 (43:45):
You have to.
Speaker 8 (43:45):
And and because this person is you say, he's sixty
five and he has cancer, Well he was in in
sixty five, Okay, So so.
Speaker 10 (43:55):
He went in a sixty five. He's older there, he's
like got eighty verse close to that, and he's been
to the VA. But he said he know that the
VA costs the military causes cancer.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Well, what he needs to do is get a diagnosis.
Once he gets a diagnosis, based on the area he
was located in, it's called presumptive he may have been
exposed to something that calls the cancer. Even if it's
fifty years later. VA will go ahead and approve that
because he can prove that he was in a location
that calls like agent on to cause cancer. So it's
(44:27):
never too late to file a claim. And you know,
and the thing about it is all these different agencies
dav m VET, they always asking Congress to change laws
to benefit whomever. I don't know, but they can put
in for a change, but it doesn't pass.
Speaker 15 (44:46):
Yeah, right, understand that.
Speaker 10 (44:48):
But I'm just saying, like you said earlier, people don't
wait for the last minute. Yeah, all of a sudden,
now you want to get the benefits when the first
you was like the VA and then all of a sudden,
now you're in an area where you financially, you know, unstable,
So now you want to go after them. You know,
you have to be consistent about this, and and uh,
I've told a lot of people I've been working with
(45:09):
prins Jas you have to be consistent about everything that
you want to do to get with the DA. So
there's not no no prejudice or nothing. It's just the
fact that you must be able to do it for yourself.
Most of the people I talk for, they don't want
to do nothing. I give them homework and they don't.
Speaker 11 (45:22):
Want to do that.
Speaker 13 (45:22):
First thing.
Speaker 10 (45:22):
I tell them to get you a PCP, I said,
and then tell your PCP put your enpotmental health.
Speaker 15 (45:27):
I give them homework, I said, when you've done, next
time me that.
Speaker 10 (45:30):
So the topic. I appreciate you, Bob w D I
a high caller.
Speaker 13 (45:39):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 20 (45:44):
Heard a gentleman just called in not too long ago.
They didn't that he's service connected with one percent.
Speaker 13 (45:50):
And I would just like your guests.
Speaker 21 (45:52):
To talk a little bit more about the service connected
once once you reach one hundred percent.
Speaker 20 (45:57):
To because I know that's not that's not the end
of it, per se in terms of because you're not
total and permanent.
Speaker 15 (46:06):
So if your guests, we're.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Just expound on that so that, uh, that guy can
know that, you know, I mean, you still got a
process to go through before you become totally and permanent.
Speaker 22 (46:20):
And uh.
Speaker 21 (46:21):
Also I haven't mentioned about I guess veterans not being
ashamed of like if they have PTSD getting helped because
people don't think they're crazy and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (46:34):
Uh.
Speaker 22 (46:34):
I mean, that's that's that's you know, that's just part
of the what you got to go through because I've
had psychologists tell me I'm crazy.
Speaker 15 (46:44):
You know, you could just be going through something.
Speaker 20 (46:47):
Uh at the time I was lost parents and.
Speaker 15 (46:49):
Lost of fellow soldier and talk to psychologists.
Speaker 20 (46:54):
They called me crazy because you know what I'm going through.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
So just expound on that all of them active.
Speaker 12 (47:00):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (47:01):
Thank you, Thank you for your call.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Bye bye family.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Yeah, okay, So sir, on the one hundred percent, if
they give you one hundred percent and they don't put
permanent in total P and T, that means that you're
going to have a routine future exam or fe. It
means that there's a condition there that won't allow them
to say that it's permanent because there's a there's an
(47:26):
opportunity for that condition to get to get better. Let's
say a knee replacement. That knee replacement right now is
at sixty percent. However, once that knee replacement has healed,
you might not need that sixty percent. Your symptoms may
go to a point where you'll only qualify for thirty percent.
(47:47):
So they're leaving it open until you have that routine
future exam. Once they do that routine future exam and
they realize that, or they examine you and they see
that that evaluation is still as sixty, then you go
to permanent total.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Also, he was talking about and we know a lot
of veterans have and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
We understand how they got it, or at least I.
Speaker 8 (48:16):
Do, and and and I do too, and you know
as well, yes, and you know from the moment you
walk through the door of the recruiting station. Uh, and
you're you're processing, and you're now a new recruit going
through basic training, you're going through AI T or whatever
training you have to go through. All that is, to
(48:38):
me is considered PTSD. And I'll tell you why. Because
everything that you knew as a child growing up to
an adult has been removed, is being removed from you,
and now you got to take on the ways of
the military. So when you go back home after being
turned inside out, no one seems to get you. You
(49:03):
are different. People say you're different. You are different because
now they have ingrained what they need for you to
be with them so that you can follow orders. So, yes,
it's a form of PTSD because they've taken everything out
of you that you knew as a child growing up
and made you into this fighting machine. And yes, that's scary. Yeah,
(49:26):
that's very scary.
Speaker 15 (49:28):
W D I a HI caller, Hey, ball, Hey how
are you today?
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We're doing well this day? How about yourself?
Speaker 10 (49:38):
Good? I just have a question.
Speaker 23 (49:40):
I'm listening to her and I wanted to know that
her services have those that are still serving in our
own forces.
Speaker 8 (49:49):
Oh yes, So those services as you have one hundred
and eighty days. They call it the BDD claim. That's
sort of like the before discharge decision, and they allow
you to go ahead and put that in.
Speaker 12 (50:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (50:04):
The reason why that is so good because now you
don't have to prove whether or not a service connected
you're still in. You're still in the military, so you
want to do that. I appeal to everyone out there
serving that's getting ready to get out, I tell you,
I tell you, please do those BDD claims because you
can walk out the door with one hundred percent, which
(50:25):
is awesome. Which is awesome.
Speaker 15 (50:27):
Okay, now one more question.
Speaker 23 (50:29):
My son in law is still actively serving.
Speaker 19 (50:32):
He's had several injuries while.
Speaker 23 (50:35):
Servants and his complaints of finding a death here. And
I've had several people to tell me to make sure
he gets so injuries documented. Is there anything else he
can do.
Speaker 15 (50:48):
Why he's still serving, to make sure because like I.
Speaker 23 (50:51):
Told him, one of the injuries that he injured is
he injured his k means on and I've told him
those needs don't help as quick and as you get older,
you'll feel himself. To make sure that you go see
a doctor and get it medically.
Speaker 19 (51:06):
Documented.
Speaker 23 (51:07):
If there anything else that my son in law can do,
why he's still serving to make sure when he gets
out that those complaints don't continue to follow on death pears.
Speaker 8 (51:16):
So I suggest that he documents. He gets everything documented,
and not just document it, get it a diagnosis. You
want a diagnosis, and don't do it just one or
two times. Do it consistently, because if it's pain in
his knees, then that pain is not going away anytime soon,
and once he gets out, it's probably going to get
(51:38):
worse because he's not exercising that need like he would
properly exercise it in the military. So I suggest that
he gets to document it, get a diagnosis for it,
and continue to get treatment on that knee, so when
he gets out he can get at least forty percent
in that area, just the most that you can get.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
You.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yes, by bye bye, Pamel Pullans, you have given wonderful information. Day.
I just wanted to share this. I had got I'm
a text and one of my listeners says, BEV, there
are a lot of us that have been held up
by this VA rating system. You must have this lady back.
All these stories and questions are helping somebody please invite
(52:22):
her back. All right, Jeron, I'll by invite her back. Yeah,
last words you like to say about the Veterans United
Outreach Services and what you.
Speaker 10 (52:33):
Want to do.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
So you know my heart, this is my heart, this
is my soul, this is my passion. I live and
breathe this job. Every veteran that's out there, you know,
we try to support one hundred percent. We don't just
do your claim and you know and let it go.
We follow you throughout the process. We love what we do.
(52:55):
We this is a ministry for us and and we
we just take this seriously. It doesn't matter if you're
eighteen or one hundred. We're here for you. We're here
to do what we need to do. We understand the
importance of making sure veterans get the benefits that they deserve.
(53:19):
You serve, as I stated earlier, you serve you deserve.
I don't care if you spent two weeks in the military.
There's a way for you to get your benefits. We
just need to We need to understand, and we need
to pass it on. Don't just get yours and leave it.
Tell someone else about what you got, how you got it,
and who helped you get it. Pass it on. We're
(53:41):
here to help any veteran out there that needs help.
That's what we're here for. This is our mission in
life and we love it.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
I love it. And let me say to you thank
you for your service twenty years. Yes, wow, wow again,
pamel Pullans. Give out that telephone number where people can
reach you. And we have the website.
Speaker 8 (54:03):
Yes, it's airy code eight O three seven sixty five
zero one six three and the website b as in
Victor U O s l l C dot com.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
All right, good and y'all. She is a native Memphian, yes,
but she doesn't live here anymore. But she's a native Meymphia. Yes,
you up here?
Speaker 10 (54:29):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (54:29):
I did?
Speaker 2 (54:30):
I have to ask you? What high school?
Speaker 7 (54:32):
Hill?
Speaker 8 (54:32):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Okay, I'm.
Speaker 8 (54:37):
Westwood.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
I'm sorry. Why didn't I didn't graduate from high school here?
I'm just messing with I'm just messing with you, sister,
A guy I know listen was go.
Speaker 8 (54:48):
Like, okay, but we have Jackson State incoming.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
We have Jackson D I love, I d I love
we got that incoming.
Speaker 12 (54:58):
Got that.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
Thank you so much for here. You have been delight
and gracious, Miss Pamela. Pulling's, the CEO of the Veterans
United Outreach Services. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you,
and I know our listeners appreciated you today.
Speaker 8 (55:13):
Thank you so much. And I appreciate all the listeners
out there and I appreciate you as well, just as
much because this has been a dream come true and
you just made it happen. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Thank you so grateful, You are so welcome. You are
so welcome. Miss Pamela Pulling's, the CEO of the Veterans
United Outreach Services. Thank you, Thank you, callers, thank you
listeners for joining us this day on the BEV Johnson Show.
We do, we really do appreciate you. So until tomorrow,
(55:51):
please be safe, keep a cool head, y'all, don't let
anyone steal your joy. Until tomorrow, I'm BEB Johnson, and
y'all keep the faith.
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I A I am Bev. It is Thursday, July tenth,
twenty twenty five. I am excited to have our next
guest in the studio. And I told you all to
be listening veterans. If you're not a vesteran, you need
to listen. And so when it's your attorney talk, you
may have some questions for my guests. Nine zero one,
five three five nine three four to two eight hundred
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and five zero three nine three four two eight three
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get you in to us. We are going to learn
today about the Veterans United Outreach Services b u OS
and I don't know if you've all heard of that.
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I haven't, but I'm I want to learn about it
and meet the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services,
Miss Pamela Pullins. Good afternoon to you, Pamela Pullins.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
How are you good afternoon? I am awesome, so happy
to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You look awesome, Thank good, thank you.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
So excited here to talk about veterans.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm so glad to have you here. Before we talk
about that, tell our listeners a little bit about Pamela pullitants.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Well, Pamela grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. What yes, Yes,
memphisis home for me. Left home, went to the military,
spent twenty years in the military.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No you didn't, Yeah I did.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What service?
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Army? Army?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, I did that. And then after leaving the Army,
I went and I started working for the Department of Defense.
And from there I went and got all my different degrees,
okay and social work. Just wanted to be an advocate
for veterans, and I began working with the VA as
a raid adjudicator. And while working there, I realized that
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I didn't need to be on the inside. I needed
to be on the outside or I could make a difference.
And that's exactly what I I did. I worked there
for about two years in Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ohly I know Jackson Well, oh yeah, yeah, at the
I love is there state.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
That's that's my that's my school, that's where that's my
I got my master's there, That's where I got my masters. Yeah,
so we have something in come out awesome. So left
there in twenty nineteen, moved to South Carolina, and uh,
that's where I got started really just advocating for veterans
to get the benefits that they truly deserve. Because we
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have so many veterans out here. They hear about others
getting their benefits, but they don't know how to go
about getting the benefits for themselves. So I am. I
chose myself. I decided that this is what I'm going
to do for my life and for the life lives
of others, to make sure that everyone I come in
contact with can get their one hundred percent. Because you
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serve you deserve. That's my motto. You serve you deserve.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh I love that, yes, and so so now you're
in South Carolina.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yes, I'm in Columbia, South Carolina, which is a great place.
I love it, but there is where that's where I
got my start, my huge start in twenty twenty one.
And god, I mean, it's been such a blessing to
be able to really give back to the veterans and
help them navigate through the system. Because you know the
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VA system, you know, whether good or bad, it's a
very complicated system. And when they send out these letters,
these decisions letters or whatever information they send to the veterans,
veterans really don't know how to respond. And because they
don't know how to respond, they end up getting denied.
If they get denied, they get frustrated and they don't
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want to continue. And I say to all veterans, don't stop.
Keep going. You're gonna run into somebody who's going to
be able to help you navigate through the system so
that you can get your one hundred percent disability because
it's there for us.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, let me ask this it may I call you Pamela.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Please please do so, Pamela.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You have these men and women who have served, yes
for this country.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yes, why.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm just gonna say why the hell, is it so
hard for them to get their bene. They're entitled to that,
aren't they?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, they are, they are. But the thing about it
is Congress has set it up in a way, in
such a way that you almost have to be on
your deathbed to get what you truly deserve. And what
I mean by that is if you don't have a
diagnosis for the condition that you are following a claim on,
they want to deny you. So a lot of people
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don't realize that. They don't understand that, especially with this
new thing that Biden put into effects that put into law,
the Pacact. Most people think that, oh, I got the
pack that well, that's just that's just a name. Do
you have the presumptive conditions as a result of being
in those locations? Do you have a diagnosis for those
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presumptive conditions. If you don't have a diagnosis, then they're
gonna deny you. What people fail to understand is you
need to go to the doctor and get diagnosed for
these conditions. And a lot of people walking around with
prostate cancer, all types of cancers because they were exposed
to burn pits, they were exposed to jet fuel. All
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that matters and people don't realize that you qualify. We
still have Vietnam veterans that was exposed to Agent Orange
that are out there that haven't fouled the claim at all.
And that's you know, that's insanity what I feel, huh
in my heart of hearts. I feel that VA doesn't
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do enough to tell the communities about what's available.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That's why I come in, all right, So I love that,
love that history, and you come in and so tell
our listeners about the veteran asy United Outreach Services.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
So we're we're a small company that started back in
twenty twenty one. As I stated earlier, I worked for
the VA as a rader, so I kind of know
my way around.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So what's a radar.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
A raider is a person who who just gonna get
your claim and they're gonna send you to a compensation
and pension exam to be evaluated. Once the evaluation comes back,
then that that radar adjudicator is going to determine whether
or not you qualify for the for the condition that
you're claiming. So they're gonna give you a percentage of
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what they what it is that you qualify for based
on your symptoms. Symptoms are everything, everything, everything. You can
have a diagnosis, but if you don't have the symptoms
to go along with it, that's where your percentage comes in.
So so you can have a diagnosis of headaches, but
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you don't have the symptoms of what headaches call us
for your life. Okay, so you're only getting a zero.
Zero's are good because you can always ask for an increase.
I know I'm just going digging in.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, no, no, but but I want you to explain
because I'm sure that are veterans and people who are
listening to you handling and they don't know this.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Yes, that's true, because I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Have a lot of veterans who call this show Wow
I do and who listen. Yes, So I do hope
they call it and ask you questions today. So I'm
just throwing if you're diagnosed with something, yes, but you
don't have the symptoms that that doesn't sound right. Well
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you know well to me and I don't know, it
doesn't sound right.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
And you're right, But the symptoms is what gives you
the higher percentage, and they're only going to go to
a certain amount. It's sometimes we can have elements in
our bodies. Uh, you know, just like let's say let's
say psycho logical elements mental, let's say depression. Okay, we
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can have situation or depression, but we don't have the
all the symptoms of what depression is.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Okay, I'm not isolating from my family. I'm still out
doing things.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Gotcha, gotcha, I understand.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
What you're saying, right exactly. So that's uh, that's basically
what they're looking for symptoms.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay. And and so with v u os, you all
are looking for these veterans or veterans come to you.
How does it work?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
So we we we actually we we word of mouth
is how we get our veterans. Someone gets taken care of,
get there one hundred percent. They tell another person, I'm
all over the country. I'm all over the country. I
don't I'm not in one specific area. I work with
people all over the matter of fact, all over the world.
I'm all the way in Dubai. Uh So what happens
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is what we do. We we just when people call us,
we get on it. We we go ahead from A
to Z. We take the information. We do an intake sheet,
trying to find out basic information on you. When you
serve how long you serve this, that and the other,
and then you'll have a consultation with me. I'll sit
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down and talk to you about whether or not your
claim is a claim that I can actually submit. Once
we decide that we can submit that claim, then you
come back to me again with after the appointment and
we sit down and we actually go through that claim
and we file that claim to v A and I
and I know people don't like to hear coach, but
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I kind of help you through the process because there
are a lot of things that you may not understand.
So I'm here to help you through the process so
that you can come walk out the door with one
hundred percent. Do you get one hundred percent the first time?
No VA, They're just like that, Okay, that's VA. And
sometimes it's on the individual because you may not have
gone into the CNP or a conversation and pension exam evaluation.
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You may I said the things that need to be said,
and so you don't get high rating because of that. However,
you know there's always a way around that because we'll
go back in and we'll look at what did you
do wrong? Did you what did you do right? What
did they do wrong? And then we go back in
and we fight. That's where the fight begins once you've
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been dis denied.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So the bottom line is what you all are doing
is helping veterans get their benefits.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Yes, that's exactly what we're doing. We helping veterans get
their benefits. And believe it or not, we have veterans
from from eighteen to ninety nine. I mean seriously, really,
yes we do. And you know, there are certain things
that you can claim with the VA that there's no
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age limit on it. Most of the things, really there's
no age limit. So I tell veterans all the time.
I get questioned about this, probably every day, what's going
to happen with the VA because all these cuts? Yeah, okay, yeah,
absolutely nothing. They Yeah, they have cut a lot of jobs.
A lot of people have left VA. However, VA is
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the one entity in the government that's only for veterans
who have or people who have served in the military.
Veterans only only government entity. So that VA is not
going anywhere. So while you're sitting down trying to figure
out whether or not to file a claim, right, you
better get that claim file because the VA is not
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going anywhere. So get that claim file because see, if
you stop filing claim, there's no reason for VA to exist.
So we need you to file your claim. Is that's
the only way it's going to exist. Otherwise they have
no reason. We can't take care of civilians. We can't.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Okay, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I can't file a claim on the civilian that's never served.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But it has to be a veteran.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
It has to be a veteran. The VA hospital can't
do any time type of work with a better a person,
a sybilion that's never served. So we need veterans to
go in apply for their benefits and and get what
you deserve because you did what others did not do.
You gave your time, your effort, you gave your all
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in all to be a part of something that was
so much bigger than you. So you deserve to get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And you think about I love you said that, Pamela,
And think about the veterans who lost their lives.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Oh my god, yes, yes you got. You got so
many of them out here that never saw this day.
You know, they never had an opportunity to even file
for anything because they lost their lives while they were
in action. You know, or whatever they may have been doing,
but they served and and and and because they did serve,
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you know, family members should be trying to go after
if they haven't already gotten it, go after be a
for some type of compensation.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I want, I want to go back at something you said.
The VA is not going anywhere, and and every day
we're hearing the government is cutting this and cutting that,
and that and and and people get discouraged. Famela and
I have a lot of veterans who call says, well,
I went to the VA and they're not doing this.
They won't listen to me. What do you say to
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those folks who go there and they're not getting what
they need to get to help them, especially with their health.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Well, I say to the veterans who go to the VA, yeah,
and they're not receiving the care that they feel they
should have. They need, they need to see patient advocate,
if patient advocate, So that's what it's called a patient
patient advocate.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
If they don't give you uh an answer that that
suffice that makes you feel like, okay, something's going to happen,
then you go to that director of the VA hospital.
He or she should have an open door policy. If
you cannot get in to see that person, then you
call your local congressman or your local center's office and
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file a complaint against the VA. You have that right.
VA has x amount of days to respond to you
in terms of getting you the care that you need.
You know, they do, they do, and a lot of
people don't understand that. They may tell you, oh, we
can't get you in to see an ophthalmologist for the
next ninety days. Well you tell them I want to
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go on the outside, because they have to do that.
And a lot of people don't understand that. A lot
of people who have lost lost their lives because they
were waiting on the VA to send them to a specialist,
specialty doctor. You don't have to do that. You don't
have to do that. You can ask them to send
you on the outside and they'll go ahead and pay
for that. Wow, but get it approved first, because if
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you go on your own, they're not gonna pay for
the exactly. So BA they do a lot of things
that are not good, but they have a lot of
programs that are good. They just don't tell you about it,
you know, and uh, knowledge is power.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
We all know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm glad you here, so you're telling us about it? Yes, yes,
if you just tuned in this afternoon, we are talking
with Miss Pamela Pullans, who is a veteran. She is
the CEO of Veterans United Outreach Services. If you have
a question or two for my guests, we invite you
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You're listening to Tennessee Radio Hall of Famer Bev Johnson
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The BEV J Just Show.
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You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson.
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And I'm talking with Miss Pamela Pullan's who is the
CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services and she is
a retired veteran and sister. I'm going to our phone lines.
They are lined up for you, and we go to
our phone lines to talk with Corey.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Hi, Corey, Good morning, Miss Johnson and Miss Pamela.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
Good afternoon, Corey.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
How are you well?
Speaker 11 (25:23):
Good afternoon. I'm sorry I'm doing unbelieving myself. I have
frequent questions of Miss Pamela mis Maimal said, if you're
getting one for PTSD left right need the nights of
the year, should you still even though you're getting one
hundred percent, should you pursued for one hundred percent for
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the other ailment?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Uh, I'm just gonna say this. Uh just simply said,
one hundred percent is the most you're gonna get.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Now.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Where you start getting other monies is when you start
getting special monthly compensation. So for instance, if you have
let's say, I don't know if I can say this
on the radio or not, but ed, okay, yes, yes,
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So if you're getting something such as that, ed, then yes,
there there's a special monthly compensation. If you lose an eye,
or you go blind, or you you you're lose an organ. Uh,
those things put you in another category of special monthly
compensation called them s m C and they go there
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there within the alphabet. So the higher you go, the
more you get paid.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
So that's that extra money that can take you way
up to eight ten thousand dollars, but as far as
one hundred percent, you can put all you want in there.
You're still gonna endo with a.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Hundred Yes, ma'am. I'm just saying, I want you know
if you could and uh, do your spouses continue receiving
the full amount in the case of my your transition.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Well only no, they don't. If let's say, for instance,
you pass away from a service connected disability. Uh, your
spouse will get half if they meet the requirements. There
are strict requirements. So if your your spouse is over
that threshold, and no they don't.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
So and last question, sir, miss uh fami. Okay, your
vai D that you get from the VA. You know
our daughter vectory should know. If you zero percent got
a vai D, you can call Nashville and get an
exchange privileges you're still authorized to go on the base.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
If you're at one hundred percent.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
Yes, no, ma'am, it's a zero First time Donald Trump
was in office, he passed the laws. You got any percentage,
you can call Nashville and get a exchange privilege letter
and you'll be allowed to go on like I say, here,
to Millington, to the Navy base.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Well, you're you're me on something that I haven't heard about.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am. I'm very astute, yes, ma'am. And
is the v A I D and well as my
do O D I D? Are they considered real? I
D no travel, No, they're not. Okay, Thank you Corey, Yes, ma'am,
thank you, thank you for the information with family. Y'all
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thank you you too. Bye bye.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
Hi James, Hi James, Hey, Hey your question.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You have a question for mss Pamela Pulladings.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Uh, I don't have a question. I got a comment.
I'm Vietnam version. I got drafted and I did. Now
you t s out of Vietnam then, uh. And I
been getting my benefits, oh about ten years now and
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I've been getting one hundred percent to last three or
four years.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Well, that's awesome, that's awesome. I'm glad to hear that.
I'm glad that they're taking care of your family.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
And read and I made it come in. I just
want to tell you, just like you said, when you
put in, you gotta consent. You gotta continue to go
whatever they ask you. You gotta do it. You cannot
miss no afformance or nothing, but you've got to continue.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
To do it.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yes, sir, I totally agree.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
I told you, I said, Okay, like I said, it
pays off. I've been getting that hundred cent last three
four years.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Get very good, Jans. Thank you James for listening.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:49):
Okay, all right, bye bye.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
Hi Thurman?
Speaker 13 (29:53):
All right, Bell, how you doing today?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'm doing well in yourself.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
And I want to say thank you to miss Pulling
for be on one there talking about the governments. I
was a former Air Force photographer and I was stationed
at Greenland, and I was also stationed in Korea, and
matter of fact, I was stationed on several countries while
I was in the Air Force. I got hurt coming
out of a helicopter in Greenland, also in Korea. And
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I also one of the gentlemen that worked with me
in the photo lab asked me to go to the
club with him one night, and I didn't go because
I had been on a flying mission as a photographer
and I had to come back and process my film.
And the next morning I went to check his door
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to go to breakfast and he never answered the door,
so I went on the breakfast time to find out.
I went to the photo lab and I asked, decided,
was he's there? Because one of the guys at breakfast
asked me had I seen him? And his name was
Joe and I said, no, I haven't seen him. And
so he said well and I said why. He said,
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because he helped me the last night he was going
to kill hisself. Oh wow, and so and so what
happened was, you know, I went on to the Foe
lab and I asked the sergeant. That's a serge, I said,
have you saying Joe here? He said, no, their, He said,
you know how y'all come traggling it in? He said why,
I said, because bron just came over to the breakfast
table and told us this morning that Joe's don't kill
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herself last night. And so I was in the dark
room process of my FAMI and I heard the sergeant
come running down the hallway. This is in Greenland now,
and what Trump was talking about? And uh he he said,
oh my god. I said, what's going on? Of course,
dark room? And I had to open the door. I said,
what's going on, sir? He said, Joe's hanging in there.
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I say, hanging in where? He said, in the heating room.
And so I had to go in there and I said, oh,
my God, and so he had written on the piece
of paper sack maybe reincarnation, you know, to save time.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Why so your point, what point are you trying to make.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
I'm trying to make the point that, uh, I've had
PTSD because of that issue. And also I was this charge.
I was then put in the hospital and uh and
take her air Force base for three months and I
had cast on my from my hills to my ankles.
I have never and every time I try to get
some information about it at the VA, I run into
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all kinds of issues. All do I all my records?
It's all in my military records.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Okay, So so have you what is what is your percentage?
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Now?
Speaker 15 (32:30):
None?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Well you need to reach out to me.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I need to and Miss Pulling is going to give
her her phone number and websites so so you'll be
able to reach out to her therm and.
Speaker 13 (32:41):
Okay, okay, please, okay, welcome, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You, bye bye. Yeah, we yeah, we will, we will
do that. Might before I go to a nexton line.
Just let's give the numbers in the website. We're going
to do it again, okay. And so how how people
can get in touch with touch with you? Because I
had just got an email and they want please email
me your guest information. So a number and a website.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Okay, the numbers, oh god, I didn't write the website down,
but that's okay. The number, the number I think I
have the website, okay, the number is eight O three
eight O three seven six five seven six five zero
one six three zero one six.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Three eight o three seven six five zero one six three.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And I think I think this website I have v
U O s l l C dot com. That's it,
b like in Victory, y'all U O s l l
C dot com. And we'll we'll give those numbers again.
Going back to our phone lines to talk with you. Hi,
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m T.
Speaker 15 (33:51):
Hey Bevee Line Johnson.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm doing well today. How are you?
Speaker 14 (33:56):
M T.
Speaker 15 (33:57):
Beverly. I'm chilling great, I'm sick. This fixed and I'm
drawing social Security and doing It's just a blessing to
pay all those years attaining social curates and if you
live long enough, it'll pay off.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But I was yere and you have a question for yes,
I do have a question.
Speaker 15 (34:22):
Yes, I'm a veteran and I am a service conneked veteran,
and it took me a while to get But what
I'm doing or what I'm trying to find out, I'm
at seventy percent, but I should be at one hundred percent.
Speaker 16 (34:37):
So what I'm trying from this Miss Pamela Yes, yes, sir,
I'm wondering how is she gonna help and do the
process of me reaching one hundred because what I found
out what to me, it seems like in the state
of Tennessee, what they do, they discriminated just.
Speaker 15 (34:59):
The black veterans, but the white veterans. I got white friends.
They put in for claims and they be automatically approved.
So I think it's a lot to do with the
with the uh, with the demographic area that you live in.
But I am trying to uhuh which I know I've
(35:21):
ventured to will. But I'm gonna get in contact with
you on the screen of Miss Bev.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Lane, Beverly Lane Johnson, my sister, and hopefully you'll be
able to uh, you know, help you out in family,
help me to.
Speaker 15 (35:36):
Be one hundred.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
So, sir, first of all, let me just say this,
I don't want to believe that there is any discrimination
when it comes to adjudicating a claim for one thing,
you don't even know who you're adjudicating, and the claims
go all over the country, so they go into a queue.
No one knows who they're gonna get. So I'm just
(35:59):
saying that to make you feel a little bit better
about the process. Trust me, there may be other factors
the reason why you're not getting what you deserve. There
may be other factors involved in this. Uh, maybe something
that you didn't do when you went to your CNP exam.
It may be something they didn't annotate.
Speaker 12 (36:19):
So to just say that.
Speaker 15 (36:20):
There's this go to another the c exam.
Speaker 13 (36:24):
But I was, you know, like it was just gonna
let the VA handle.
Speaker 15 (36:29):
But with you, it's your organization. So how much what
do you charge you for what you assist in doing?
What do you charge?
Speaker 8 (36:37):
So there's no there's no way to really give a
fee because every case is different, just like when you
go to an attorney's office, every case is different, different,
there's a lot, there are a lot of things we
have to consider. So just call us and and we'll
talk to you. We'll do a consultation with you and
uh and we'll help you get to that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Thank you, MT and we'll give that number out, so
be listening to it.
Speaker 15 (37:01):
I've got it. Eight over three seven sixty five zero
one sixth three v u O l LC dot com.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Hello, somebody Hello, somebody empty empty got it? Prince of the.
Speaker 15 (37:15):
Charge shame Bill, How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Prince Okay, good, Miss Kamala, how are you doing today?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
I'm doing well, sir.
Speaker 15 (37:27):
Are you chrit I'm doing wonderful. I'm on the top show, trying.
Speaker 17 (37:31):
To remain it's coming. I got two questions for you
could actually get action those questions. The first question deals
with last year. Remember when when President Fike was in office,
He's send a mobile unit to major city to help
veterans get their missability.
Speaker 15 (37:50):
It was taking so long. Are they planning on doing
that again?
Speaker 10 (37:52):
On the Trump.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Industry that you know of, Well, they continue to do that.
It depends on the district, the area you're located in.
That comes from the VA regional office.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
They're the ones that send out the team to help
veterans in the community, and sometimes they go ahead. Well,
sometimes they do a great job. However, I wouldn't just
rely on that. I would more or less rely on
someone who really has the experience. They have the experience,
(38:27):
but they don't have the time. These guys are in
production and so they're moving really really fast, so they
may miss some things. So if you can get with
someone who can take the time to really look over
your claim and submit it the way in which it
needs to be submitted and give you some advice on
how to conduct yourself or how to work that claim,
(38:48):
then you'll have better results.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
I understand that I was trying to be one of
the ones when they came here is that Riverside office church,
but the line was so long they had a vestriss
who will keeping out uh days before they even showed
the pop star work or not the even to get
it in.
Speaker 15 (39:08):
And I'm still trying to you know, process by playing.
Now I have a question.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
I've spoke to you that there are a fee in
order to get it pass with your organization.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
Well, like I said, sir, everything is determined on based
on what it is that you have going on, what
you've done, what I need to do. So everything just
like an attorney's office. You know, we have to we
have to look at the situation and we'll base it on.
That may not even be a situation where I can
handle it. I don't know. To give out fees on
the phone would be unfair to everyone.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Right, Okay, thank you, Prince. Another question.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (39:45):
God.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
All right, thank you, thank you, Prince. Hi Frank, Hi, Frank.
I'm doing well, Frank, I'm doing well.
Speaker 18 (39:58):
Let me say that Jean really explaining things the ways
you really needs to be explained. But I want to
share something with her on these some on these cases
with the BA and and if they have a mob
(40:19):
on each case when they someone call in and uh,
you know, whatever they need or whatever going on, each
case has already been margged. And that's the only thing
I hate about America because we all and everything have
(40:45):
a mob on whatever week. If we're going to the doctor,
we're going to whatever we're trying to take care of.
Speaker 19 (40:53):
Each person is gonna be treated different because of that mob.
That the shot some food on people. It's sad, but
at the same time it's a good thing. People need
to really really pay your attention and and and and
(41:13):
let no one tell them that, uh, it's not what
it is. It is what it is, and it's going
to get worse before it get better.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Well wait, hope not. But that's why miss miss Fall,
miss Pullings is here with with her Veterans United outweed
services to help y'all. Do you have a specific question, Frank,
because we got we got folks hold it on and
and we want to get those questions.
Speaker 18 (41:41):
Well here's what, Well, I don't have anything to share.
Speaker 19 (41:46):
That's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Well, thank you Frank for sharing that. We appreciate that.
W D I a high caller.
Speaker 15 (41:55):
Hello Queen King, Harry over, Hey King, great, great, great topic.
Uh you know you know me, bib.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
I'm an advocate of helping veterans. And what MC said, No,
that's not true. They don't go by no colors. I'm
gonna tell you something. I've been helping a lot of people.
I can't be a VSO because I'm one hundred percent
disabled veterans, but i know the system and how it works,
and I've been helping a lot of people. If here's
the thing with blacks, and I think she mentioned that
just do it. Once you get a letter or they
(42:26):
deny you, you leave it alone and you just say
enough to be a and this and blah blah blah, blah. No,
you have to be consistent about what you want. You
have to be consistent about doing things. It's like tell people,
if there's there are seventy percent, you keep seventy percent,
and you got one on forty or more above, you
can file for TDIU Total disability individual on the playbuilding. Well,
(42:50):
all these different things. They have to look up, tough
up for themselves. You can't just sit back and wait.
And then people say, well, I ain't heard from them
in two three years.
Speaker 11 (42:58):
You ain't gonna hear from them if you don't call him.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
I used to call him every day.
Speaker 15 (43:03):
Yeah, you don't call him, they don't come you.
Speaker 10 (43:04):
They put it over that pile thirteen. They he ain't
really interested. And no, I'm an advocate in the American
Legion and m bet and I went to the National
last year and they're actually talking about going to Congress
and telling Congress that if a veteran has been out
ten years, were left and have not a file for
more and have not filed, they gonna cut him out
(43:25):
because they figured that if you ain't filed, you've been
out twenty years, then you don't want to file.
Speaker 15 (43:30):
That guy called me he got.
Speaker 10 (43:31):
Out of sixty five. He said, I know I got
this cancer and all this stuff from the military. I said,
you visited the viet No, why you know you got it?
And so yeah, son, be consistent.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, King Harrio and Penla, you said that you have
to stay on them.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 10 (43:45):
You have to.
Speaker 8 (43:45):
And and because this person is you say, he's sixty
five and he has cancer, Well he was in in
sixty five, Okay, So so.
Speaker 10 (43:55):
He went in a sixty five. He's older there, he's
like got eighty verse close to that, and he's been
to the VA. But he said he know that the
VA costs the military causes cancer.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Well, what he needs to do is get a diagnosis.
Once he gets a diagnosis, based on the area he
was located in, it's called presumptive he may have been
exposed to something that calls the cancer. Even if it's
fifty years later. VA will go ahead and approve that
because he can prove that he was in a location
that calls like agent on to cause cancer. So it's
(44:27):
never too late to file a claim. And you know,
and the thing about it is all these different agencies
dav m VET, they always asking Congress to change laws
to benefit whomever. I don't know, but they can put
in for a change, but it doesn't pass.
Speaker 15 (44:46):
Yeah, right, understand that.
Speaker 10 (44:48):
But I'm just saying, like you said earlier, people don't
wait for the last minute. Yeah, all of a sudden,
now you want to get the benefits when the first
you was like the VA and then all of a sudden,
now you're in an area where you financially, you know, unstable,
So now you want to go after them. You know,
you have to be consistent about this, and and uh,
I've told a lot of people I've been working with
(45:09):
prins Jas you have to be consistent about everything that
you want to do to get with the DA. So
there's not no no prejudice or nothing. It's just the
fact that you must be able to do it for yourself.
Most of the people I talk for, they don't want
to do nothing. I give them homework and they don't.
Speaker 11 (45:22):
Want to do that.
Speaker 13 (45:22):
First thing.
Speaker 10 (45:22):
I tell them to get you a PCP, I said,
and then tell your PCP put your enpotmental health.
Speaker 15 (45:27):
I give them homework, I said, when you've done, next
time me that.
Speaker 10 (45:30):
So the topic. I appreciate you, Bob w D I
a high caller.
Speaker 13 (45:39):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 20 (45:44):
Heard a gentleman just called in not too long ago.
They didn't that he's service connected with one percent.
Speaker 13 (45:50):
And I would just like your guests.
Speaker 21 (45:52):
To talk a little bit more about the service connected
once once you reach one hundred percent.
Speaker 20 (45:57):
To because I know that's not that's not the end
of it, per se in terms of because you're not
total and permanent.
Speaker 15 (46:06):
So if your guests, we're.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Just expound on that so that, uh, that guy can
know that, you know, I mean, you still got a
process to go through before you become totally and permanent.
Speaker 22 (46:20):
And uh.
Speaker 21 (46:21):
Also I haven't mentioned about I guess veterans not being
ashamed of like if they have PTSD getting helped because
people don't think they're crazy and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (46:34):
Uh.
Speaker 22 (46:34):
I mean, that's that's that's you know, that's just part
of the what you got to go through because I've
had psychologists tell me I'm crazy.
Speaker 15 (46:44):
You know, you could just be going through something.
Speaker 20 (46:47):
Uh at the time I was lost parents and.
Speaker 15 (46:49):
Lost of fellow soldier and talk to psychologists.
Speaker 20 (46:54):
They called me crazy because you know what I'm going through.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
So just expound on that all of them active.
Speaker 12 (47:00):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (47:01):
Thank you, Thank you for your call.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Bye bye family.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Yeah, okay, So sir, on the one hundred percent, if
they give you one hundred percent and they don't put
permanent in total P and T, that means that you're
going to have a routine future exam or fe. It
means that there's a condition there that won't allow them
to say that it's permanent because there's a there's an
(47:26):
opportunity for that condition to get to get better. Let's
say a knee replacement. That knee replacement right now is
at sixty percent. However, once that knee replacement has healed,
you might not need that sixty percent. Your symptoms may
go to a point where you'll only qualify for thirty percent.
(47:47):
So they're leaving it open until you have that routine
future exam. Once they do that routine future exam and
they realize that, or they examine you and they see
that that evaluation is still as sixty, then you go
to permanent total.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Also, he was talking about and we know a lot
of veterans have and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
We understand how they got it, or at least I.
Speaker 8 (48:16):
Do, and and and I do too, and you know
as well, yes, and you know from the moment you
walk through the door of the recruiting station. Uh, and
you're you're processing, and you're now a new recruit going
through basic training, you're going through AI T or whatever
training you have to go through. All that is, to
(48:38):
me is considered PTSD. And I'll tell you why. Because
everything that you knew as a child growing up to
an adult has been removed, is being removed from you,
and now you got to take on the ways of
the military. So when you go back home after being
turned inside out, no one seems to get you. You
(49:03):
are different. People say you're different. You are different because
now they have ingrained what they need for you to
be with them so that you can follow orders. So, yes,
it's a form of PTSD because they've taken everything out
of you that you knew as a child growing up
and made you into this fighting machine. And yes, that's scary. Yeah,
(49:26):
that's very scary.
Speaker 15 (49:28):
W D I a HI caller, Hey, ball, Hey how
are you today?
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We're doing well this day? How about yourself?
Speaker 10 (49:38):
Good? I just have a question.
Speaker 23 (49:40):
I'm listening to her and I wanted to know that
her services have those that are still serving in our
own forces.
Speaker 8 (49:49):
Oh yes, So those services as you have one hundred
and eighty days. They call it the BDD claim. That's
sort of like the before discharge decision, and they allow
you to go ahead and put that in.
Speaker 12 (50:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (50:04):
The reason why that is so good because now you
don't have to prove whether or not a service connected
you're still in. You're still in the military, so you
want to do that. I appeal to everyone out there
serving that's getting ready to get out, I tell you,
I tell you, please do those BDD claims because you
can walk out the door with one hundred percent, which
(50:25):
is awesome. Which is awesome.
Speaker 15 (50:27):
Okay, now one more question.
Speaker 23 (50:29):
My son in law is still actively serving.
Speaker 19 (50:32):
He's had several injuries while.
Speaker 23 (50:35):
Servants and his complaints of finding a death here. And
I've had several people to tell me to make sure
he gets so injuries documented. Is there anything else he
can do.
Speaker 15 (50:48):
Why he's still serving, to make sure because like I.
Speaker 23 (50:51):
Told him, one of the injuries that he injured is
he injured his k means on and I've told him
those needs don't help as quick and as you get older,
you'll feel himself. To make sure that you go see
a doctor and get it medically.
Speaker 19 (51:06):
Documented.
Speaker 23 (51:07):
If there anything else that my son in law can do,
why he's still serving to make sure when he gets
out that those complaints don't continue to follow on death pears.
Speaker 8 (51:16):
So I suggest that he documents. He gets everything documented,
and not just document it, get it a diagnosis. You
want a diagnosis, and don't do it just one or
two times. Do it consistently, because if it's pain in
his knees, then that pain is not going away anytime soon,
and once he gets out, it's probably going to get
(51:38):
worse because he's not exercising that need like he would
properly exercise it in the military. So I suggest that
he gets to document it, get a diagnosis for it,
and continue to get treatment on that knee, so when
he gets out he can get at least forty percent
in that area, just the most that you can get.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
You.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yes, by bye bye, Pamel Pullans, you have given wonderful information. Day.
I just wanted to share this. I had got I'm
a text and one of my listeners says, BEV, there
are a lot of us that have been held up
by this VA rating system. You must have this lady back.
All these stories and questions are helping somebody please invite
(52:22):
her back. All right, Jeron, I'll by invite her back. Yeah,
last words you like to say about the Veterans United
Outreach Services and what you.
Speaker 10 (52:33):
Want to do.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
So you know my heart, this is my heart, this
is my soul, this is my passion. I live and
breathe this job. Every veteran that's out there, you know,
we try to support one hundred percent. We don't just
do your claim and you know and let it go.
We follow you throughout the process. We love what we do.
(52:55):
We this is a ministry for us and and we
we just take this seriously. It doesn't matter if you're
eighteen or one hundred. We're here for you. We're here
to do what we need to do. We understand the
importance of making sure veterans get the benefits that they deserve.
(53:19):
You serve, as I stated earlier, you serve you deserve.
I don't care if you spent two weeks in the military.
There's a way for you to get your benefits. We
just need to We need to understand, and we need
to pass it on. Don't just get yours and leave it.
Tell someone else about what you got, how you got it,
and who helped you get it. Pass it on. We're
(53:41):
here to help any veteran out there that needs help.
That's what we're here for. This is our mission in
life and we love it.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
I love it. And let me say to you thank
you for your service twenty years. Yes, wow, wow again,
pamel Pullans. Give out that telephone number where people can
reach you. And we have the website.
Speaker 8 (54:03):
Yes, it's airy code eight O three seven sixty five
zero one six three and the website b as in
Victor U O s l l C dot com.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
All right, good and y'all. She is a native Memphian, yes,
but she doesn't live here anymore. But she's a native Meymphia. Yes,
you up here?
Speaker 10 (54:29):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (54:29):
I did?
Speaker 2 (54:30):
I have to ask you? What high school?
Speaker 7 (54:32):
Hill?
Speaker 8 (54:32):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Okay, I'm.
Speaker 8 (54:37):
Westwood.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
I'm sorry. Why didn't I didn't graduate from high school here?
I'm just messing with I'm just messing with you, sister,
A guy I know listen was go.
Speaker 8 (54:48):
Like, okay, but we have Jackson State incoming.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
We have Jackson D I love, I d I love
we got that incoming.
Speaker 12 (54:58):
Got that.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
Thank you so much for here. You have been delight
and gracious, Miss Pamela. Pulling's, the CEO of the Veterans
United Outreach Services. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you,
and I know our listeners appreciated you today.
Speaker 8 (55:13):
Thank you so much. And I appreciate all the listeners
out there and I appreciate you as well, just as
much because this has been a dream come true and
you just made it happen. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Thank you so grateful, You are so welcome. You are
so welcome. Miss Pamela Pulling's, the CEO of the Veterans
United Outreach Services. Thank you, Thank you, callers, thank you
listeners for joining us this day on the BEV Johnson Show.
We do, we really do appreciate you. So until tomorrow,
(55:51):
please be safe, keep a cool head, y'all, don't let
anyone steal your joy. Until tomorrow, I'm BEB Johnson, and
y'all keep the faith.
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