August 14, 2025 • 45 mins
The Veterans United Outreach Services is helping Veterans get their benefits says CEO Pamela Pullins on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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Speaker 6 (01:44):
Good afternoon, and welcome back to the second half of
the Bab Johnson Show here on w d I A
before I introduced my guests and veterans, put your ears
on because you need to hear. Yeah, but saying a
big happy birthday in Alaska. Uh to wish a big
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happy birthday Xavier from manga. Yeah, okay, help me out, sister,
help me out.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Okay, It's okay, you gotty.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Happy birthday, Happy birthday Xavier.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And wishing you men and me to me, to me,
to mean to me anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And as I always say, go out and celebrate your life.
Oh yes, yes, yes, Well back in the hounds and
y'all she's looking fabulous today. She is back with us,
Miss Pamela Pullings the CEO of.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
B U O S. And she's gonna tell us what
that means. How you doing sister. You back with us.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Hey, I'm glad to be back. Thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I'm great, I'm great. Everything is awesome. We're doing ex
We're doing extremely well.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
And we've uh, we just got some things out there
that we need to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes, well, we're going to talk about it. But before
we talk about miss Pamela Pullatins, tell our listeners about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
B u OS. What is that?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So that's Veterans United Outreach Services. What we do.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
We do claims for veterans so that they can get
their benefits. So we take a veteran from nothing to
one hundred.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
That's what we shoot for. We don't choot for anything
less than one hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now, now, how long you all have been in operation?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
So I've actually been doing this for the last six
six years on my own, but we actually started the
business in two thousand and twenty one. So for the
last four years we've been in operation and we're going well,
we're going strong.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah, And I want to tell our listeners because the
last time you well, I should have let you do
that again because we always have new listeners.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, and I probably say, who is this lady?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Well, tell us a little bit about yourself again, miss Pamela.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Plus.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Okay, so I'm a veteran as well. I spent twenty
years in the Army. I left the Army, went out
and got a job with Department of Defense.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Left there, went and got.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
My degree in social work, my master's at Jackson State.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I love, I Love, I Love, I love, Doctor Hammond.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
And from there I started working with the VA as
a raider and didn't really like the way they did
their business with veterans. So I decided to leave there
and start my own business.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And that's, you know, that's how I got started.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
I just left and started doing what I do and
it's been very successful because my heart is in it.
I love what I do, and I know that there's
a great need to help good people out here helping
veterans get their benefits because it's so complicated. You know,
the language and the decisions they make is very complicated.
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So a lot of time veterans don't even realize that
they've done something wrong. So you need someone who's really
qualified and dedicated to the job to help you get
your benefits.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
And you know what I've found out, pam that is
that since i've been doing this show, We've had a
lot of veterans called they have a hard time getting
what's due to them, exactly what. It doesn't make sense
to me because you all have served this country and
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I don't like how the country and I'm sure the
veterans a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Of them don't how they do.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Do you that you have a hard time trying to
get your benefits?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, they do make it complicated.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
They throw little, as they say, monkey wrenches in there
so that you won't it's so complicated you won't even
understand what it is that you've done wrong. And so
I do feel that they make it complicated because they
just don't want to pay that money out. But at
the same time, if you get someone who really dedicated
to what they do and helping veterans get the benefits,
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then you can you can win this battle. But we
shouldn't have to fight so hard to get what we
truly deserve. And uh, if you if if you serve
you deserve, that's that's my model. You serve you deserve, right,
And uh, And I feel that me doing what I
do is really helping.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's a game changer.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
It's helping veterans get the benefits that they definitely, definitely need.
And also it's not just money, it's also about health care.
And so health care is very important because what good
is money if your health is not healthy?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Right, So, so we do it all.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We try to make sure that veterans get the mind straight,
get the body straight, the physical.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
We just want you to have a whole picture.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
So getting the money is one thing, but also getting
the services for your health care, your medical needs is another.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So we we try to do it all.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Let me ask this question, Hamlet, being a veteran in
and serving do all that? And I'm asking this question
because I don't know, and maybe somebody else. Are all
veterans entitled to something, getting some kind of benefits or no? No, no, no, okay, okay,
so yeah, because people you need to hear that.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
And I didn't know, right, So, for instance, reserve veterans,
and they don't even really want to call reserves veterans
because they only serve, No, they do not, because because
they don't they only serve one weekend out of a
month and then two weeks out of a year. And
if you don't get you know, if you don't get
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injured or something happened to you doing that two week
time period and you get what they call a line
of duty l D letter from your command. If you
get injured, then you really won't receive the benefits that
you truly deserve. And I think that reservest should get
benefits as well as active duty member. However, they don't
look at them the same way. Also the next National
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Guard as well, they don't look at them like they
look at.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
An active duty member. So that's been very complicated.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
It's difficult, and I have a lot of people coming
to me that's reserved or National Guard, and I have
to find a way to get them the benefits that
they truly deserve, because you got to think about it,
they had to go through the basic training, They had
to go through the training for the job, so they deserve.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Benefits.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So that's good to know because somebody may have been
listening and says, well, I serve in the National Guard.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And yes, my benefits.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Yes, And it doesn't work that way, you know. And
another thing, you have to keep good records if you
served in the reserves, if you served in the National Guard,
make sure if you get injured, they're gonna do a
line of duty a letter for you the command will
because if you don't have that, it is so difficult
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for them to understand that this happened to you while
you were on your or your two week duty. And
so you just can't tell them, oh, this happened to me,
and I won't benefits for it. No, you got to
have some evidence. And your evidence is your line of duty.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Wow, yeah, so you have to.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
So so you're telling those folks out there, have your
paperwork in order.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Have your paperwork in order. That is so important. And
not just have your paperwork in order, okay, but also
go to the doctor if you know that something happened
to you while you're on active duty.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Don't sit around and just let it linger.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Go to the doctor because that's another part of your
evidence that they're gonna want to see if this happened
to you, and if it's so bad, why haven't you
gone to the doctor to get treated for the condition.
So that's another important fact. You got to go to
the doctor and get treated for the condition that you're
claiming you you know it happened to your on active
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duty or while you were doing your two week training
for the year, it happened to you while you were
doing that. So go to the doctor, get a diagnosis,
get treated for the condition, and then go to VA
and file a claim.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
So, pam, So you found that a lot of the
veterans they have something going on with them and never
went to the VA or to doctor to find out
what is happening.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then until it's too late.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Exactly, and then they want you to you know, they
want you to perform a miracle.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
And so I have to scramble and figure out and
strategize and figure out how how can I get this
veteran Because I want I want every veteran. I want
every service member out there, if you serve, I want
you to get your benefits. And I don't want you
to just get fifty percent. I want you to get
a hundred. I shoot for a hundred. So I if
veterans would just go to the doctor and get a
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diagnosis and get treated for the condition that they're going
to foul a claim on, then I can work with you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I can.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
I can get you your benefits, but I can't get
you something if you're not doing anything about it.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
And I've heard on this show with veterans call well,
I go to the VA and they not doing this
right or they don't do this right. Can you talk
about you have to fight for getting those meds or
those procedures that you need.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, yeah, is it difficult.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It was difficult.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
It has been difficult, but it's getting better. Okay, you know,
you just got it. Don't stop, be very persistent demand
because you have the right.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You are the one who served, not those people.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
They may have served, but you serve, and that's who
you should be concerned about yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So don't allow VA to tell you no, you don't qualify.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Oh yeah, they can find a way to qualify you
for the benefits.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
So don't give up.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Just be you know, just keep that tenacity going. Don't
be very persistent with the VA, because when you're persistent
with the VA, they respond. They respond, even if you
have to take it all the way up to the director. Okay,
take it to the director, but there's someone there that's
gonna give you what you're asking for.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Never give up, never give up, never give up never.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
So with that and saying that the v u os,
that's what you all try to do, and I love
what you say. You go for one hundred percent. You
don't go for half, you don't go for one fourth.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
No, we don't. We don't.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
You know, I feel like we're short changing you. When
we do that, you will not being fair to you.
You you know, when you joined the military, you gave
it your all.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
That's what we do. We give it out all. We're
gonna find a way.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I'm gonna find a way to get your benefits because veterans,
some veterans are entitled.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
They are entitled, they're entitled. And those veterans who are
not entitled, you are safe. For instance, a veteran got
out on a bad conduct discharge, Well they just changed things.
They just they just changed things to a point where
if you got out on a bad conduct discharge, they're
re looking at this thing.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I had a script of that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
But if they're relooking at these discharges, dishonorable discharges, charges
and they're upgrading them. I've done several lately, and they're
upgrading them because they're looking at the fact that it
could have been a racial issue, it could have been
a sexual issue, it could have been a lot of
different issues, and they're rethinking, maybe that person shouldn't have
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gotten a bad conduct discharge. So now they're looking at
it and they're overturning these discharges so the veterans can
receive the benefits they truly deserve. So I tell any
veteran out there, if you receive a bad conduct discharge,
you need to contact VA, contact men, contact whomever so
that you can get the benefits that you truly deserve
because you serve. You gotta remember you served, you know,
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and you probably wouldn't have been in that situation had
you not signed up and served your time. So yes,
get your benefits.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
If you've just tuned in this afternoon and we are
talking with the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services,
Miss Pamela Pullings, she is fighting for you veterans.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
She's a veteran. Yes, you fighting for it.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'll fighting, I tell you, fighting hard.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I know you are. I know you are.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I want to go to our phone lines and talk
to you if you have a question or two, your veteran,
you have a question or two for Miss Pamela Pullings,
we invite you to call now nine zero one five
three five nine three four two eight hundred five zero
three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to us.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We're going to our phone lines to talk with you.
Hi caller, Hello, Hey, chaplin comments, How are you?
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're great? And I would just wanted to, hey, do
put eighty men call on the ladies? Dam Yes, I serve.
I serve twenty years in the Navy and both both
the color barrier and steam engineering.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
So you know, when you have a.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Fort the man crew you all got three three black people,
you know you're in trouble. Certainly the right.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
A lot of people would not.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
They didn't do it, and I'm guilty too. I'm guilty too.
I retired in nineteen seventy five and I really just
started looking in the getting into business. It's still fifteen
years later, and but I'm telling you I caught it.
But I finally that I'm eight to seven now. I
didn't get it into busessics until about four years ago.
What that's right, that's right, that's right, and that they
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kept they kept doing. I didn't realize that you do
as a fell program, Sister Beverley, that it's administered by
the Tennessee UH government.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
And so.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The amount of we we kind of ran. I ran
a thing on that the African American and I just
said that a way you can have the same bso
Beral Service office in there. And somehow another day with
the rate seventy five eighty percent of Caucasian brothers and
we only got fifteen to twenty percent. And then he
had the county is close to us here where they
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would have more vs O with the Barial Service office,
you know on pay roll than they had the in
Tennessee in Memphis. And so I applaused them what they're doing.
I'm sure thank you because I they going going going
crazy with this, and very quick I just said, it's
not shutting her mouth. Last year, did you get the
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widow of the former commander of the oh but that's
where the four was, but the American legion his widow
got with the pastor and she had got with the
pastor with the church uh on thursd Street, big church
on third Street anyway, two d thing. Then trying to
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sign people up and everything like that. Since the man
believe these other folks we wouldn't, I know, he was
shooting at who was people came in and Campbell then
every day white folks came in there. Campbell then everything
and flew that thing out for two days. But since
then we've got a little better thing like that. But
they would they were just lying out of African American
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for everything. I put five troops in Vietnam. It blowed out,
cracked rib and knee, okay, And but I went through
all that time and then thank God the kind of
job I had, I didn't have to do a lot
of physical work because of just run a steam plant.
But uh, later as I really thank you, really thank you,
thank you, thank you, and I'm thank you chopping up
Sheppard County of and be on the four walls and
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the military tires at Triton area, and I'm going past.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Word on you.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Chaplin count Comings, Yes, ma'am bye bye, you know what,
Pam And and listening to chapterin Comings, he served as
he just said, four years ago, he's eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
He's just now getting benefits. Does that happen to a lot.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
All the time, I'm constantly getting calls from veterans eighty
ninety years old that have never received any benefits, and
some of them thinking that they can't receive benefits. Because
back in the day they couldn't. They just couldn't. They
wouldn't do it, you know. And you know it's all
about the rite up. You know, how you write this
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these claims up and what you say and the conditions
they have. So you know, it's it's sad, but it's true.
You know, they discriminated back then and they still do.
I'm not going to say they stopped discriminating.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They do. You know.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
You know, you have to do your homework, make sure
that the person you're working with is a qualified person
to do your claim. Otherwise you're going to get denied
every time. And if you don't understand the law of
the b A law, and if you don't understand the
language that they're speaking, you're just going to be stuck.
And so you know, I tell anyone get someone who's familiar,
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who loves doing what they do, because this is a
very draining is very drain mentally draining. But if you
love it, it's okay. God to restore you.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Right back to our phone lines to talk with you.
Thank you for calling and listening, HI caller, And.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So you know, I tell anyone HI caller on the airing,
yes you're.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
On the air. Turn your radio all the way down
for me.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
All right, good in here, Yes, yeah, I just recently
got mines approved of disability.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I was a part of a group.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
In nineteen sixty eight when they send us to Detroit
to actually kill doctor King, and we were there two weeks.
We had guns and bullets was set up there. Let's
see one thirty And they just approved my mental thing
because I've been tormented by that, yeah, and have nightmares
and backglashes on that. I'm in my late seventies, so
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they are approving some late claims I got out in
nineteen sixty eight, just really skept about four months ago.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Oh wow, well good, I'm glad you.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Got approved eighty percent. Don't stop, you don't start, you
deserve one hundred.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Do.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
I need to get in touch with you all to
try to learn how to get that twenty percent?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Okay, Well, well, well MSS Pullings will be giving her
number and the website so you keep listening.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Okay, thank you, thank you, You're welcome about Yeah, we'll
give that. Wow. And and I know a lot of
folks like that.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
It's so many people, and that's why I'm out here advocating. Yeah,
because there's so many people out here like that, and
and it's not fair.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Va.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
He said, he just got here, so he was doing
doing sixty eight. Oh, this is twenty twenty five exactly.
That's that's that's the that's the thing. They're out there,
especially in the rural areas.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
They're out there.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
They don't know and then sometimes they you know, they
know that they can file a claim, and they go
to the wrong people, right and it doesn't happen. They
get denied and they get discouraged. Okay, So I just say,
don't give up, don't stop, don't stop till you get
that one hundred percent, because you deserve, you serve, you deserve.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
We are talking with Miss Pamela Pullings, the CEO of
b u O s Veterans United Outreach Services. If you
have a question or two for her, we invite you
to call. Our numbers are nine zero, one five three
five nine three four two eight one hundred five zero
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three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to us.
If you can't call you have a question, email me
your question. Bev Johnson at iHeartMedia dot com. Bev Johnson
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Speaker 4 (23:04):
You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
And we're talking with Miss Pamela Pulling's the CEO of
the Veterans United Outreach Services. We're going to our phone
lines to talk to our listeners. Thank you for waiting.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hi, Carolyn.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
Pay dear, how are you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Doing well in yourself?
Speaker 11 (23:26):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I hear you loud and clear?
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Okay, good?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Good.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
First of all, I want to thank you for having
the guests that you have on right now. I am
a surviving Vietnam veteran spouse and I am going through
quite a bit trying to get his benefits. Now. We
were trying to get him one before. I'm sorry to
get thank you for being there, dear, but we were
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trying to get him one hundred percent before he got
real sick, and we did all the paperwork. She even
had us fell out these forms that in case something
happened or whatever you know that makes sure that I
wouldn't be you know that person or whatever. Well, anyway,
my husband, this happened right at the time COVID was
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getting ready to start. It was about I guess about
three or four months after COVID had started, his situation
started getting worse. He never had COVID at anything. Well,
it ended up he was a diabetic and he ended
up being drafted back in nineteen seventy something whatever, right
before we were getting ready to graduate from school. Well, anyway,
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he developed IDDS at some point I don't know when,
but he developed IDDS. Well, he ended up going into
VA four diabetes. And like I said, this was around
the COVID time, and at that time it was because
of his toes. Well, they had to move his toe.
Then later they had to remove his leg. Okay, during
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that time while he was MVA, something happened to his kidneys,
and I asked the question, what happened to my husband's kidneys.
We got medical reference from the previous two doctors that
he had had prior to going to VA never had
problems with his kidneys. Then he said kidneys an excellen
condition and everything they gave us information. When the doctor
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came in the room, I asked my husband to have
his phone off so I can talk to him, because
he kept asking what happened to my kidneys? Whatever to
my kidneys? And the statement that they told me was
that it appears that we o re minicated you. Okay.
So anyway, during all of this time, my husband going
back and forth, back and forth, and like I say,
they thenm he'd take his leg. But every time that
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I filed for his benefits, and this was after he died.
Now my husband did die and breathe is now. But
every time that I filed after he died, from twenty
one to now, I was denied twice so far. When
the pack Act came out and I followed VA seff
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really well, I keep eye on it. I got file cabinets,
forehead and everything. Well, I got another letter that says
it looks like he may be able to get your DEIC.
It's the presumptions that were keeping me from getting his
benefit my DSc. It is because of the consumptions that
were keeping me from getting well, they're all on that.
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I think it was about twenty some presumptions that I
believe you could probably correct me on there. Well, so
far as there's four on there, that makes me qualify.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
For IC now.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
But I still don't have anything yet, So what is happening.
I am on the docket. I finally got my docket
numbered earlier this year. I am working with a guy
by the name of Reginald miss Films. My understanding goes
to different I guess, citti or whatever, and he trains people. Well,
that's who I'm working with and these in Jackson, Tennessee.
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He asked me, why did I come to him before?
If I had known? And you're right, if that form
is not still the out correctly and everything, you can
be forever. And that was part of my problem. But
I had a person there at mea that called herself
help from me. All of the paperwork and everything done.
But I'm sitting now waning to for my appointment before
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with whomever my understanding is going to be audio so
that I can fight for my case. And I didn't
realize when it's going to be this long. But I'm
not giving up. My main reason for calling is I
am not giving up. He didn't ask to go to Vietnam.
He didn't ask me. They drafted him, so I think
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I deserved I think I deserved those benefits. My husband
is no longer.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Hear you do, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
You you deserve those benefits and I will continue to push.
So you going before the better the border veteran of
veterans appeal right?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (28:11):
So you have number and everything.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Okay, So make sure that you have some good representation
when you go before that border of appeal.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
I have mister Sam. Are you familiar with Reginald Sam?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
He's in Jackson, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, But as long as.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
You're comfortable with and you think that he can he
can help you, then go ahead and have him go
with you. And uh, because he's going he's going to
explain the process and he'll be able to ask you
questions that you may not be able to answer.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Yes, yes, yes, But I just want to say that
anybody going through it, don't keep up. Don't keep up.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
No, don't you don't get up.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Yes, but I appreciate you you for being on there
for us, yes.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ma'am, Thank you Carolyn, and thank you for sharing.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Bye bye all right here bye bye.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
W D I A hi Brenda.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh, hello Bebs and your guests. How I'm good. How
you guys doing doing well?
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm calling him Arkansas. So do you work with the
Tristate area as well in miss Town?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I work all over the world, she says, she works
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Brenda, all over the world.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Okay, Well, I am the caregiver for my brother that
had a stroke about three years ago, and that's when
I found out that he did not have h VA
benefits are folks with Methodist Hospital and that the social
worker finally told me no benefits. So come to find
out he a walls in seventy five for like three
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or four weeks, but he went back in. So I
can't find any and I'm like everybody else, I'm running
against brick walls. Someone told me that I need to
go to Saint Louis to get some information regarding this
because he needs his medical care if nothing else or
whatever benefits the heats entitled to, especially if he went
back in. So I'm wondering if if you'd be able
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to help me with that situation.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Have you gone to the VA hospital and requested UH care? No, Okay,
that's your first move. Go take the VA hospital. They
can get the records. They can they can pull those records.
They'll they'll tell you whether or not, you know, they'll
tell you exactly when he served, how he served, what
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branch all that, they'll have that. So I would start
with THEA hospital first and then from there I would.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I would also.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Once they go ahead and get him a sign to
a provider, also get with the social worker and you
can get care support. They'll pay you to take care
of your your brother, So get care.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
So there are a lot of things you'll have available
for him once you get him into the VA system,
and that's really really important, getting into the VA system.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Give system.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, okay, I got chat. Yes, okay. I appreciate that
information because everybody else was trying to send me to
Saint Louis to pick up you know, he listened to
all these other new people that said they that they're
advocate for it, you know, for the military, and you know,
going like it has to be a simple way. Yeah, okay,
So my first that would be the VA.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
VA.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I sure appreciate that because he's alert enough and oriented
enough to discuss things at this time. So and then
I'm thankful for that so I would get him set
up and make it important take him to the VA.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
When did he serve.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I want to say it was in seventy six or
seventy seven during that time.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Okay, and you you know what type of discharge he received.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
When he had.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
No No, okay, well start at the BA, start the VA.
Do you have any problems. We've given the number out
if do you have a number? My number?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah? Do you have you have something?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Okay, so listen Brenda, and we're gonna give out Pam's
number again for you to have that.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
But as she said, you told her to start, it started.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
To be a that's where you started. Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Right, all rank you so much and thank you, Beb,
Thank you, miss Pam. Love you have great day.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You welcome right by?
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Hi te Hello, Beb. How you doing hell til you
get I'm doing well. You I'm doing just fine. I
just had a I was the one, one of the
one that gave up. I compared I gave up as
applied in two thousand and four. I'm a Vietnam veteran
era I was winning the service during the time with
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Vietnam and didn't go didn't go to over. We didn't
go over to Vietnam. It's well, I was in there
during the time. Make a long story. So I tried
in two thousand and four they're turning down. I tried to.
Out of fourteen came back to thatousand and fourteen, I
gave up. I got depressed. I was always dealing with
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the pressure. My wife passed. I was going through something
and I'm gonna tell to stay down where I'm just
need to get on the right track on how to
apply my I'm only ten percent, and I got a
question that asked her about the difference between the the
disciplines and the depension. They weren't allow me to have
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my ten percent because of the pension. And then they
were trying to debate on what to getting my pension,
which it was ten percent and a little pension. When
my wife wouldn't was here, I was getting six hundred
dollars a month for her, but when she died, I
only got one hundred and fifteen dollars and ten percent.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
So which are you getting?
Speaker 9 (33:55):
I'm getting a pensions And they added my timperence saying
with bat that okay, so I get like one hundred
some dollars a month. Okay, I got all kinds. I've
been going to the d all the time. I got
all kinds things going on with men. I just need
some direction because I had been miss led. A lot
(34:16):
of people touched said they's gonna help your help, and
they send you all kind of direction, but you get
that not that direct help. And I'm so glad they up.
He had just show the day because this is direction
and the information that I needed because I'm atta. I
just listen to everybody tending you all kind of direction,
but nobody can help them. You got to know how
to fill those papers out. And one person I got
(34:39):
to ask you, is the difference between an injury when
you're in there and what's going on with you? Now?
I had applied and that when they when I went
back to apply, they wanted to know, do you want
to apply for what you was trying to apply for
that you got H related injuries or are now related injuries?
(35:02):
And that's what I got stumped. I don't know whether
to reapply for the depending things that I would applying
over just to reapply all over again. That's what I
need help with. So go to the white person to
pluse the white papers to give more, only ten percent.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
So what you want to do, you want to start fresh.
You want to apply for the benefits that based on
the service connected. So if it happened to you, if
it incurred while you're an active duty, those other things
you want to apply for. Anything after active duty doesn't count.
So you want to apply for those things that happened
(35:43):
to your on active duty. Safe instance, you broke your foot.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Well that's that's what happened. I broke my foot and
they gave me a ten percent and that's all. That's
the only thing they But I got that babies, I
got odd problem, I got h bad problems. They want
to they want to serve and all that comes from
for the the imantry. But we did all the physical.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Right, you're right, A lot.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Of the angry that I have now could have been connected.
Now that I have that I got, then right.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
Sir, I would just say start fresh. You're at ten percent.
Start with that ten percent, go ahead and apply for the.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Conditions that you have.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Now you're in the VA system so they can see
that you're being treated for the conditions you have a diagnosis.
So I would just start right there and put in
a new claim and start filling all over again, and
you may receive some compensating, no compensation, but retro pay.
You know, based on the fact that you've been applying
(36:49):
for this for for years, you might receive some retropay.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
Okay, because they they told me I got you got,
you're gonna apply. You got a year to apply for it,
right exactly, and when the years gone, you can't hear
Rachel right.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Well, if you don't continue, if you don't continue applying
for that condition, no, you won't get.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Because I didn't be applied because I got distrusted, I
got I got said attracted and then just that complex.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
That's okay, that's okay, it happens. It happens, But get
back on it.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Don't give up, okay.
Speaker 9 (37:29):
So what do I need on whom I need to
get a judge.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
With so you can call it?
Speaker 9 (37:33):
I think I think the number of the direction.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
Okay, you can. You can call my office and uh
at one eight hundred number. It's eight four four seven.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
To six.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Two level two six.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Eight eight six seven eight eight. My name looks Okay,
just let us know and we'll we'll try to got
you through the process, okay, sir, and give her.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Time call her about tomorrow the next day, right, Okay.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
I will thank you T and thank you for having
such a wonderful gift. And you are.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
And you two T thank you, Bye bye, Pamela. Let's
see I got some questions email. Okay, let me get
back and say this. Okay, she just answered my question. Okay,
thanks again. Well I'll ask the question this okay, Uh,
(38:39):
she says Pamela. My husband has been trying and denied
three times with no percentage ever awarded. Not only is
he discoveraged, but so am I, as I have been
the one putting the documents together, writing letters, taking him
to the doctor's apartments, etcetera. We do not want to
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quit the process. However, it's very draining. He's from the
Vietnam era. Are g A residents Georgia residency welcome to
contact her?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Yes, yes, it is a very long process. But you
know the bottom line, you just can't give up.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
I I know that.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You know.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
You get tired, you get weary. That's why you have
to get someone to help you. You can't do this alone.
And when you when you find someone that's really dedicated
to the job, you get you get results, good results.
And so denials, yes, they come. They we have denounced.
But in know denial letters, they tell you exactly what
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it is that they need from you in order for
them to give you those benefits.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Okay, so you know they're going, yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
They tell you this is what you need in order
to receive these benefits.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
So a lot has changed.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
He was in the Vietnam era, he probably is exposed
to agent on and don't even realize that he was
exposed to Asian orange. So you just need to get
with someone who understands the law, the VA law, and
help you get through the process.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
But don't give up.
Speaker 7 (40:11):
It's trying and it's tiring, it is oh god, it's
mind blowing. But you can get through this and and
you can. You can be successful with this. You know,
you got the mental health during that time. You didn't
know whether or not you were going to Vietnam. You
will you on edge. Also, the racism was raging high.
I mean it was, it was. It was really bad
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during the time. So don't give up. There's a way
to get your benefits. You just got to find the
right people to do it for you.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
And what about Pamela, And I know we we we
hear from a lot of veterans in Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I remember that area. But yes, those veterans who went
to Afghanistan in.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
The Gulf War, the Gulf War, so yes, yes, so
so those veterans as well. If you go into the
Gulf War and you have now you know it's part
of the pack d that okay. So Packed Act is
just a law. You can't say, well, I want to
get I want to get benefits for the Packed Act.
You gotta have a you have to have a condition, okay.
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So don't just think that because you were in that
area during that time that you can receive benefits. You
got to have an injury you just can't get it
or mental It may be something that you saw. You
may have seen your buddy get blown up. That's PTSD.
So you have to know what it is that you
won't So it has to be it has to be.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Written out to a point where.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
They understand and you understand what you're doing. So get
with someone who understands how to put this, these these
documents together for you. And the right up is so
important that right up is everything, the diagnosis, the treatment
and the right up it's everything. But don't ever give up.
And Gulf War veterans, you're out there, you need to
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go get your benefits because laws have changed, not only
for the goulf War veterans, but also for the Vietnam veterans.
The law chain and August of August twenty twenty two.
They got a lot of presumptives out there, and I
guarantee you most of you qualify for them.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
You just need to go to the doctor.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Yeah, what is your number again, Miss Pamela Pullings?
Speaker 7 (42:14):
My number is one eight four four seven two six
eight eight sixty seven. Give it again, one eight four
four seven two six eight eight six seven.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And you do have a website?
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Yes, the website is v as in victor you as
in uniform, oh as an oscar s as in Sierra
l LC dot com. V as in Victor you as
in uniform, oh as an oscar s as in Sierra
l LC dot com.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Sounds good.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
Any last words you like to say to our listeners
this day.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yes, basically, if you served in the military for any
time that you need to go get your benefits. Don't
sit on it, don't wait. You know the law changes
every single day, and what you qualify for today, you
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might not qualify for tomorrow. So don't sit and sit
back and wait and say, well, I'll do it another time.
Do it right now because it's good. Right now, it's
really good. And VA is not going anywhere. I know
a lot of people always asking me, is a VA
going if? Are they gonna shut it down? No, they're
not shutting it down. As long as there's a military
VA will be open, okay, So go out there get
your benefits. Gulf War veterans, Vietnam veterans, Korean veterans, World
(43:39):
War II veterans, go get your benefits. And those veterans
that are serving on ACTI duty right now, do.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
Those BDD claims. You all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (43:48):
BDD claims before you get out, go ahead and file
they claim so that you can get your one hundred
percent upon walking out that door.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
It can happen.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Sounds good.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yeah, sister, you've had given us a wealth of information.
Thank you always always, It's just wonderful. Miss Pamela Pullans,
the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services. Her number
again eight four four seven two six eight eight sixty seven.
Give her a call or check out the website.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
Thank you sister, Thank you Bell.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
You are so wi And happy birthday again to Exavier Monger, Happy.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
Birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah I know, thank you for being here. Look forward
to the next time.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Yes, definitely, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
You are so welcome. I want to thank you callers.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I want to thank you listeners for joining us this
day on the BEV Johnson Show.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
We do, we really do appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (44:52):
So until tomorrow, please be saved, keep a cool head, y'all,
and don't let any one steal your joy. Until tomorrow,
I'm BEB Johnson, and y'all keep the faith.
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Speaker 6 (01:44):
Good afternoon, and welcome back to the second half of
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before I introduced my guests and veterans, put your ears
on because you need to hear. Yeah, but saying a
big happy birthday in Alaska. Uh to wish a big
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happy birthday Xavier from manga. Yeah, okay, help me out, sister,
help me out.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Okay, It's okay, you gotty.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Happy birthday, Happy birthday Xavier.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And wishing you men and me to me, to me,
to mean to me anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And as I always say, go out and celebrate your life.
Oh yes, yes, yes, Well back in the hounds and
y'all she's looking fabulous today. She is back with us,
Miss Pamela Pullings the CEO of.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
B U O S. And she's gonna tell us what
that means. How you doing sister. You back with us.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Hey, I'm glad to be back. Thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I'm great, I'm great. Everything is awesome. We're doing ex
We're doing extremely well.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
And we've uh, we just got some things out there
that we need to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes, well, we're going to talk about it. But before
we talk about miss Pamela Pullatins, tell our listeners about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
B u OS. What is that?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So that's Veterans United Outreach Services. What we do.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
We do claims for veterans so that they can get
their benefits. So we take a veteran from nothing to
one hundred.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
That's what we shoot for. We don't choot for anything
less than one hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now, now, how long you all have been in operation?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
So I've actually been doing this for the last six
six years on my own, but we actually started the
business in two thousand and twenty one. So for the
last four years we've been in operation and we're going well,
we're going strong.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah, And I want to tell our listeners because the
last time you well, I should have let you do
that again because we always have new listeners.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, and I probably say, who is this lady?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Well, tell us a little bit about yourself again, miss Pamela.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Plus.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Okay, so I'm a veteran as well. I spent twenty
years in the Army. I left the Army, went out
and got a job with Department of Defense.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Left there, went and got.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
My degree in social work, my master's at Jackson State.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I love, I Love, I Love, I love, Doctor Hammond.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
And from there I started working with the VA as
a raider and didn't really like the way they did
their business with veterans. So I decided to leave there
and start my own business.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And that's, you know, that's how I got started.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
I just left and started doing what I do and
it's been very successful because my heart is in it.
I love what I do, and I know that there's
a great need to help good people out here helping
veterans get their benefits because it's so complicated. You know,
the language and the decisions they make is very complicated.
(05:00):
So a lot of time veterans don't even realize that
they've done something wrong. So you need someone who's really
qualified and dedicated to the job to help you get
your benefits.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
And you know what I've found out, pam that is
that since i've been doing this show, We've had a
lot of veterans called they have a hard time getting
what's due to them, exactly what. It doesn't make sense
to me because you all have served this country and
(05:32):
I don't like how the country and I'm sure the
veterans a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Of them don't how they do.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Do you that you have a hard time trying to
get your benefits?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, they do make it complicated.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
They throw little, as they say, monkey wrenches in there
so that you won't it's so complicated you won't even
understand what it is that you've done wrong. And so
I do feel that they make it complicated because they
just don't want to pay that money out. But at
the same time, if you get someone who really dedicated
to what they do and helping veterans get the benefits,
(06:03):
then you can you can win this battle. But we
shouldn't have to fight so hard to get what we
truly deserve. And uh, if you if if you serve
you deserve, that's that's my model. You serve you deserve, right,
And uh, And I feel that me doing what I
do is really helping.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's a game changer.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
It's helping veterans get the benefits that they definitely, definitely need.
And also it's not just money, it's also about health care.
And so health care is very important because what good
is money if your health is not healthy?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Right, So, so we do it all.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We try to make sure that veterans get the mind straight,
get the body straight, the physical.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
We just want you to have a whole picture.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
So getting the money is one thing, but also getting
the services for your health care, your medical needs is another.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So we we try to do it all.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Let me ask this question, Hamlet, being a veteran in
and serving do all that? And I'm asking this question
because I don't know, and maybe somebody else. Are all
veterans entitled to something, getting some kind of benefits or no? No, no, no, okay, okay,
so yeah, because people you need to hear that.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
And I didn't know, right, So, for instance, reserve veterans,
and they don't even really want to call reserves veterans
because they only serve, No, they do not, because because
they don't they only serve one weekend out of a
month and then two weeks out of a year. And
if you don't get you know, if you don't get
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injured or something happened to you doing that two week
time period and you get what they call a line
of duty l D letter from your command. If you
get injured, then you really won't receive the benefits that
you truly deserve. And I think that reservest should get
benefits as well as active duty member. However, they don't
look at them the same way. Also the next National
(08:00):
Guard as well, they don't look at them like they
look at.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
An active duty member. So that's been very complicated.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
It's difficult, and I have a lot of people coming
to me that's reserved or National Guard, and I have
to find a way to get them the benefits that
they truly deserve, because you got to think about it,
they had to go through the basic training, They had
to go through the training for the job, so they deserve.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Benefits.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So that's good to know because somebody may have been
listening and says, well, I serve in the National Guard.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And yes, my benefits.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Yes, And it doesn't work that way, you know. And
another thing, you have to keep good records if you
served in the reserves, if you served in the National Guard,
make sure if you get injured, they're gonna do a
line of duty a letter for you the command will
because if you don't have that, it is so difficult
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for them to understand that this happened to you while
you were on your or your two week duty. And
so you just can't tell them, oh, this happened to me,
and I won't benefits for it. No, you got to
have some evidence. And your evidence is your line of duty.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Wow, yeah, so you have to.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
So so you're telling those folks out there, have your
paperwork in order.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Have your paperwork in order. That is so important. And
not just have your paperwork in order, okay, but also
go to the doctor if you know that something happened
to you while you're on active duty.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Don't sit around and just let it linger.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Go to the doctor because that's another part of your
evidence that they're gonna want to see if this happened
to you, and if it's so bad, why haven't you
gone to the doctor to get treated for the condition.
So that's another important fact. You got to go to
the doctor and get treated for the condition that you're
claiming you you know it happened to your on active
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duty or while you were doing your two week training
for the year, it happened to you while you were
doing that. So go to the doctor, get a diagnosis,
get treated for the condition, and then go to VA
and file a claim.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
So, pam, So you found that a lot of the
veterans they have something going on with them and never
went to the VA or to doctor to find out
what is happening.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then until it's too late.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Exactly, and then they want you to you know, they
want you to perform a miracle.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
And so I have to scramble and figure out and
strategize and figure out how how can I get this
veteran Because I want I want every veteran. I want
every service member out there, if you serve, I want
you to get your benefits. And I don't want you
to just get fifty percent. I want you to get
a hundred. I shoot for a hundred. So I if
veterans would just go to the doctor and get a
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diagnosis and get treated for the condition that they're going
to foul a claim on, then I can work with you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I can.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
I can get you your benefits, but I can't get
you something if you're not doing anything about it.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
And I've heard on this show with veterans call well,
I go to the VA and they not doing this
right or they don't do this right. Can you talk
about you have to fight for getting those meds or
those procedures that you need.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, yeah, is it difficult.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It was difficult.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
It has been difficult, but it's getting better. Okay, you know,
you just got it. Don't stop, be very persistent demand
because you have the right.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You are the one who served, not those people.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
They may have served, but you serve, and that's who
you should be concerned about yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So don't allow VA to tell you no, you don't qualify.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Oh yeah, they can find a way to qualify you
for the benefits.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
So don't give up.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Just be you know, just keep that tenacity going. Don't
be very persistent with the VA, because when you're persistent
with the VA, they respond. They respond, even if you
have to take it all the way up to the director. Okay,
take it to the director, but there's someone there that's
gonna give you what you're asking for.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Never give up, never give up, never give up never.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
So with that and saying that the v u os,
that's what you all try to do, and I love
what you say. You go for one hundred percent. You
don't go for half, you don't go for one fourth.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
No, we don't. We don't.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
You know, I feel like we're short changing you. When
we do that, you will not being fair to you.
You you know, when you joined the military, you gave
it your all.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
That's what we do. We give it out all. We're
gonna find a way.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I'm gonna find a way to get your benefits because veterans,
some veterans are entitled.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
They are entitled, they're entitled. And those veterans who are
not entitled, you are safe. For instance, a veteran got
out on a bad conduct discharge, Well they just changed things.
They just they just changed things to a point where
if you got out on a bad conduct discharge, they're
re looking at this thing.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I had a script of that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
But if they're relooking at these discharges, dishonorable discharges, charges
and they're upgrading them. I've done several lately, and they're
upgrading them because they're looking at the fact that it
could have been a racial issue, it could have been
a sexual issue, it could have been a lot of
different issues, and they're rethinking, maybe that person shouldn't have
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gotten a bad conduct discharge. So now they're looking at
it and they're overturning these discharges so the veterans can
receive the benefits they truly deserve. So I tell any
veteran out there, if you receive a bad conduct discharge,
you need to contact VA, contact men, contact whomever so
that you can get the benefits that you truly deserve
because you serve. You gotta remember you served, you know,
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and you probably wouldn't have been in that situation had
you not signed up and served your time. So yes,
get your benefits.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
If you've just tuned in this afternoon and we are
talking with the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services,
Miss Pamela Pullings, she is fighting for you veterans.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
She's a veteran. Yes, you fighting for it.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'll fighting, I tell you, fighting hard.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I know you are. I know you are.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I want to go to our phone lines and talk
to you if you have a question or two, your veteran,
you have a question or two for Miss Pamela Pullings,
we invite you to call now nine zero one five
three five nine three four two eight hundred five zero
three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to us.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We're going to our phone lines to talk with you.
Hi caller, Hello, Hey, chaplin comments, How are you?
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're great? And I would just wanted to, hey, do
put eighty men call on the ladies? Dam Yes, I serve.
I serve twenty years in the Navy and both both
the color barrier and steam engineering.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
So you know, when you have a.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Fort the man crew you all got three three black people,
you know you're in trouble. Certainly the right.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
A lot of people would not.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
They didn't do it, and I'm guilty too. I'm guilty too.
I retired in nineteen seventy five and I really just
started looking in the getting into business. It's still fifteen
years later, and but I'm telling you I caught it.
But I finally that I'm eight to seven now. I
didn't get it into busessics until about four years ago.
What that's right, that's right, that's right, and that they
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kept they kept doing. I didn't realize that you do
as a fell program, Sister Beverley, that it's administered by
the Tennessee UH government.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
And so.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The amount of we we kind of ran. I ran
a thing on that the African American and I just
said that a way you can have the same bso
Beral Service office in there. And somehow another day with
the rate seventy five eighty percent of Caucasian brothers and
we only got fifteen to twenty percent. And then he
had the county is close to us here where they
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would have more vs O with the Barial Service office,
you know on pay roll than they had the in
Tennessee in Memphis. And so I applaused them what they're doing.
I'm sure thank you because I they going going going
crazy with this, and very quick I just said, it's
not shutting her mouth. Last year, did you get the
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widow of the former commander of the oh but that's
where the four was, but the American legion his widow
got with the pastor and she had got with the
pastor with the church uh on thursd Street, big church
on third Street anyway, two d thing. Then trying to
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sign people up and everything like that. Since the man
believe these other folks we wouldn't, I know, he was
shooting at who was people came in and Campbell then
every day white folks came in there. Campbell then everything
and flew that thing out for two days. But since
then we've got a little better thing like that. But
they would they were just lying out of African American
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for everything. I put five troops in Vietnam. It blowed out,
cracked rib and knee, okay, And but I went through
all that time and then thank God the kind of
job I had, I didn't have to do a lot
of physical work because of just run a steam plant.
But uh, later as I really thank you, really thank you,
thank you, thank you, and I'm thank you chopping up
Sheppard County of and be on the four walls and
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the military tires at Triton area, and I'm going past.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Word on you.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Chaplin count Comings, Yes, ma'am bye bye, you know what,
Pam And and listening to chapterin Comings, he served as
he just said, four years ago, he's eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
He's just now getting benefits. Does that happen to a lot.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
All the time, I'm constantly getting calls from veterans eighty
ninety years old that have never received any benefits, and
some of them thinking that they can't receive benefits. Because
back in the day they couldn't. They just couldn't. They
wouldn't do it, you know. And you know it's all
about the rite up. You know, how you write this
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these claims up and what you say and the conditions
they have. So you know, it's it's sad, but it's true.
You know, they discriminated back then and they still do.
I'm not going to say they stopped discriminating.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They do. You know.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
You know, you have to do your homework, make sure
that the person you're working with is a qualified person
to do your claim. Otherwise you're going to get denied
every time. And if you don't understand the law of
the b A law, and if you don't understand the
language that they're speaking, you're just going to be stuck.
And so you know, I tell anyone get someone who's familiar,
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who loves doing what they do, because this is a
very draining is very drain mentally draining. But if you
love it, it's okay. God to restore you.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Right back to our phone lines to talk with you.
Thank you for calling and listening, HI caller, And.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So you know, I tell anyone HI caller on the airing,
yes you're.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
On the air. Turn your radio all the way down
for me.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
All right, good in here, Yes, yeah, I just recently
got mines approved of disability.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I was a part of a group.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
In nineteen sixty eight when they send us to Detroit
to actually kill doctor King, and we were there two weeks.
We had guns and bullets was set up there. Let's
see one thirty And they just approved my mental thing
because I've been tormented by that, yeah, and have nightmares
and backglashes on that. I'm in my late seventies, so
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they are approving some late claims I got out in
nineteen sixty eight, just really skept about four months ago.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Oh wow, well good, I'm glad you.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Got approved eighty percent. Don't stop, you don't start, you
deserve one hundred.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Do.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
I need to get in touch with you all to
try to learn how to get that twenty percent?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Okay, Well, well, well MSS Pullings will be giving her
number and the website so you keep listening.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Okay, thank you, thank you, You're welcome about Yeah, we'll
give that. Wow. And and I know a lot of
folks like that.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
It's so many people, and that's why I'm out here advocating. Yeah,
because there's so many people out here like that, and
and it's not fair.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Va.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
He said, he just got here, so he was doing
doing sixty eight. Oh, this is twenty twenty five exactly.
That's that's that's the that's the thing. They're out there,
especially in the rural areas.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
They're out there.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
They don't know and then sometimes they you know, they
know that they can file a claim, and they go
to the wrong people, right and it doesn't happen. They
get denied and they get discouraged. Okay, So I just say,
don't give up, don't stop, don't stop till you get
that one hundred percent, because you deserve, you serve, you deserve.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
We are talking with Miss Pamela Pullings, the CEO of
b u O s Veterans United Outreach Services. If you
have a question or two for her, we invite you
to call. Our numbers are nine zero, one five three
five nine three four two eight one hundred five zero
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three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to us.
If you can't call you have a question, email me
your question. Bev Johnson at iHeartMedia dot com. Bev Johnson
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Show on w d i A.
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The Bev Johnson Show.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
And we're talking with Miss Pamela Pulling's the CEO of
the Veterans United Outreach Services. We're going to our phone
lines to talk to our listeners. Thank you for waiting.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hi, Carolyn.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
Pay dear, how are you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Doing well in yourself?
Speaker 11 (23:26):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I hear you loud and clear?
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Okay, good?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Good.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
First of all, I want to thank you for having
the guests that you have on right now. I am
a surviving Vietnam veteran spouse and I am going through
quite a bit trying to get his benefits. Now. We
were trying to get him one before. I'm sorry to
get thank you for being there, dear, but we were
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trying to get him one hundred percent before he got
real sick, and we did all the paperwork. She even
had us fell out these forms that in case something
happened or whatever you know that makes sure that I
wouldn't be you know that person or whatever. Well, anyway,
my husband, this happened right at the time COVID was
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getting ready to start. It was about I guess about
three or four months after COVID had started, his situation
started getting worse. He never had COVID at anything. Well,
it ended up he was a diabetic and he ended
up being drafted back in nineteen seventy something whatever, right
before we were getting ready to graduate from school. Well, anyway,
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he developed IDDS at some point I don't know when,
but he developed IDDS. Well, he ended up going into
VA four diabetes. And like I said, this was around
the COVID time, and at that time it was because
of his toes. Well, they had to move his toe.
Then later they had to remove his leg. Okay, during
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that time while he was MVA, something happened to his kidneys,
and I asked the question, what happened to my husband's kidneys.
We got medical reference from the previous two doctors that
he had had prior to going to VA never had
problems with his kidneys. Then he said kidneys an excellen
condition and everything they gave us information. When the doctor
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came in the room, I asked my husband to have
his phone off so I can talk to him, because
he kept asking what happened to my kidneys? Whatever to
my kidneys? And the statement that they told me was
that it appears that we o re minicated you. Okay.
So anyway, during all of this time, my husband going
back and forth, back and forth, and like I say,
they thenm he'd take his leg. But every time that
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I filed for his benefits, and this was after he died.
Now my husband did die and breathe is now. But
every time that I filed after he died, from twenty
one to now, I was denied twice so far. When
the pack Act came out and I followed VA seff
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really well, I keep eye on it. I got file cabinets,
forehead and everything. Well, I got another letter that says
it looks like he may be able to get your DEIC.
It's the presumptions that were keeping me from getting his
benefit my DSc. It is because of the consumptions that
were keeping me from getting well, they're all on that.
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I think it was about twenty some presumptions that I
believe you could probably correct me on there. Well, so
far as there's four on there, that makes me qualify.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
For IC now.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
But I still don't have anything yet, So what is happening.
I am on the docket. I finally got my docket
numbered earlier this year. I am working with a guy
by the name of Reginald miss Films. My understanding goes
to different I guess, citti or whatever, and he trains people. Well,
that's who I'm working with and these in Jackson, Tennessee.
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He asked me, why did I come to him before?
If I had known? And you're right, if that form
is not still the out correctly and everything, you can
be forever. And that was part of my problem. But
I had a person there at mea that called herself
help from me. All of the paperwork and everything done.
But I'm sitting now waning to for my appointment before
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with whomever my understanding is going to be audio so
that I can fight for my case. And I didn't
realize when it's going to be this long. But I'm
not giving up. My main reason for calling is I
am not giving up. He didn't ask to go to Vietnam.
He didn't ask me. They drafted him, so I think
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I deserved I think I deserved those benefits. My husband
is no longer.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Hear you do, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
You you deserve those benefits and I will continue to push.
So you going before the better the border veteran of
veterans appeal right?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (28:11):
So you have number and everything.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Okay, So make sure that you have some good representation
when you go before that border of appeal.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
I have mister Sam. Are you familiar with Reginald Sam?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
He's in Jackson, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, But as long as.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
You're comfortable with and you think that he can he
can help you, then go ahead and have him go
with you. And uh, because he's going he's going to
explain the process and he'll be able to ask you
questions that you may not be able to answer.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Yes, yes, yes, But I just want to say that
anybody going through it, don't keep up. Don't keep up.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
No, don't you don't get up.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Yes, but I appreciate you you for being on there
for us, yes.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ma'am, Thank you Carolyn, and thank you for sharing.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Bye bye all right here bye bye.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
W D I A hi Brenda.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh, hello Bebs and your guests. How I'm good. How
you guys doing doing well?
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm calling him Arkansas. So do you work with the
Tristate area as well in miss Town?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I work all over the world, she says, she works
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Brenda, all over the world.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Okay, Well, I am the caregiver for my brother that
had a stroke about three years ago, and that's when
I found out that he did not have h VA
benefits are folks with Methodist Hospital and that the social
worker finally told me no benefits. So come to find
out he a walls in seventy five for like three
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or four weeks, but he went back in. So I
can't find any and I'm like everybody else, I'm running
against brick walls. Someone told me that I need to
go to Saint Louis to get some information regarding this
because he needs his medical care if nothing else or
whatever benefits the heats entitled to, especially if he went
back in. So I'm wondering if if you'd be able
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to help me with that situation.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Have you gone to the VA hospital and requested UH care? No, Okay,
that's your first move. Go take the VA hospital. They
can get the records. They can they can pull those records.
They'll they'll tell you whether or not, you know, they'll
tell you exactly when he served, how he served, what
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branch all that, they'll have that. So I would start
with THEA hospital first and then from there I would.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I would also.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Once they go ahead and get him a sign to
a provider, also get with the social worker and you
can get care support. They'll pay you to take care
of your your brother, So get care.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
So there are a lot of things you'll have available
for him once you get him into the VA system,
and that's really really important, getting into the VA system.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Give system.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, okay, I got chat. Yes, okay. I appreciate that
information because everybody else was trying to send me to
Saint Louis to pick up you know, he listened to
all these other new people that said they that they're
advocate for it, you know, for the military, and you know,
going like it has to be a simple way. Yeah, okay,
So my first that would be the VA.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
VA.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I sure appreciate that because he's alert enough and oriented
enough to discuss things at this time. So and then
I'm thankful for that so I would get him set
up and make it important take him to the VA.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
When did he serve.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I want to say it was in seventy six or
seventy seven during that time.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Okay, and you you know what type of discharge he received.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
When he had.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
No No, okay, well start at the BA, start the VA.
Do you have any problems. We've given the number out
if do you have a number? My number?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah? Do you have you have something?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Okay, so listen Brenda, and we're gonna give out Pam's
number again for you to have that.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
But as she said, you told her to start, it started.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
To be a that's where you started. Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Right, all rank you so much and thank you, Beb,
Thank you, miss Pam. Love you have great day.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You welcome right by?
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Hi te Hello, Beb. How you doing hell til you
get I'm doing well. You I'm doing just fine. I
just had a I was the one, one of the
one that gave up. I compared I gave up as
applied in two thousand and four. I'm a Vietnam veteran
era I was winning the service during the time with
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Vietnam and didn't go didn't go to over. We didn't
go over to Vietnam. It's well, I was in there
during the time. Make a long story. So I tried
in two thousand and four they're turning down. I tried to.
Out of fourteen came back to thatousand and fourteen, I
gave up. I got depressed. I was always dealing with
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the pressure. My wife passed. I was going through something
and I'm gonna tell to stay down where I'm just
need to get on the right track on how to
apply my I'm only ten percent, and I got a
question that asked her about the difference between the the
disciplines and the depension. They weren't allow me to have
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my ten percent because of the pension. And then they
were trying to debate on what to getting my pension,
which it was ten percent and a little pension. When
my wife wouldn't was here, I was getting six hundred
dollars a month for her, but when she died, I
only got one hundred and fifteen dollars and ten percent.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
So which are you getting?
Speaker 9 (33:55):
I'm getting a pensions And they added my timperence saying
with bat that okay, so I get like one hundred
some dollars a month. Okay, I got all kinds. I've
been going to the d all the time. I got
all kinds things going on with men. I just need
some direction because I had been miss led. A lot
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of people touched said they's gonna help your help, and
they send you all kind of direction, but you get
that not that direct help. And I'm so glad they up.
He had just show the day because this is direction
and the information that I needed because I'm atta. I
just listen to everybody tending you all kind of direction,
but nobody can help them. You got to know how
to fill those papers out. And one person I got
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to ask you, is the difference between an injury when
you're in there and what's going on with you? Now?
I had applied and that when they when I went
back to apply, they wanted to know, do you want
to apply for what you was trying to apply for
that you got H related injuries or are now related injuries?
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And that's what I got stumped. I don't know whether
to reapply for the depending things that I would applying
over just to reapply all over again. That's what I
need help with. So go to the white person to
pluse the white papers to give more, only ten percent.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
So what you want to do, you want to start fresh.
You want to apply for the benefits that based on
the service connected. So if it happened to you, if
it incurred while you're an active duty, those other things
you want to apply for. Anything after active duty doesn't count.
So you want to apply for those things that happened
(35:43):
to your on active duty. Safe instance, you broke your foot.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Well that's that's what happened. I broke my foot and
they gave me a ten percent and that's all. That's
the only thing they But I got that babies, I
got odd problem, I got h bad problems. They want
to they want to serve and all that comes from
for the the imantry. But we did all the physical.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Right, you're right, A lot.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Of the angry that I have now could have been connected.
Now that I have that I got, then right.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
Sir, I would just say start fresh. You're at ten percent.
Start with that ten percent, go ahead and apply for the.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Conditions that you have.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Now you're in the VA system so they can see
that you're being treated for the conditions you have a diagnosis.
So I would just start right there and put in
a new claim and start filling all over again, and
you may receive some compensating, no compensation, but retro pay.
You know, based on the fact that you've been applying
(36:49):
for this for for years, you might receive some retropay.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
Okay, because they they told me I got you got,
you're gonna apply. You got a year to apply for it,
right exactly, and when the years gone, you can't hear
Rachel right.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Well, if you don't continue, if you don't continue applying
for that condition, no, you won't get.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Because I didn't be applied because I got distrusted, I
got I got said attracted and then just that complex.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
That's okay, that's okay, it happens. It happens, But get
back on it.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Don't give up, okay.
Speaker 9 (37:29):
So what do I need on whom I need to
get a judge.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
With so you can call it?
Speaker 9 (37:33):
I think I think the number of the direction.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
Okay, you can. You can call my office and uh
at one eight hundred number. It's eight four four seven.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
To six.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Two level two six.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Eight eight six seven eight eight. My name looks Okay,
just let us know and we'll we'll try to got
you through the process, okay, sir, and give her.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Time call her about tomorrow the next day, right, Okay.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
I will thank you T and thank you for having
such a wonderful gift. And you are.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
And you two T thank you, Bye bye, Pamela. Let's
see I got some questions email. Okay, let me get
back and say this. Okay, she just answered my question. Okay,
thanks again. Well I'll ask the question this okay, Uh,
(38:39):
she says Pamela. My husband has been trying and denied
three times with no percentage ever awarded. Not only is
he discoveraged, but so am I, as I have been
the one putting the documents together, writing letters, taking him
to the doctor's apartments, etcetera. We do not want to
(38:59):
quit the process. However, it's very draining. He's from the
Vietnam era. Are g A residents Georgia residency welcome to
contact her?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Yes, yes, it is a very long process. But you
know the bottom line, you just can't give up.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
I I know that.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You know.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
You get tired, you get weary. That's why you have
to get someone to help you. You can't do this alone.
And when you when you find someone that's really dedicated
to the job, you get you get results, good results.
And so denials, yes, they come. They we have denounced.
But in know denial letters, they tell you exactly what
(39:44):
it is that they need from you in order for
them to give you those benefits.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Okay, so you know they're going, yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
They tell you this is what you need in order
to receive these benefits.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
So a lot has changed.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
He was in the Vietnam era, he probably is exposed
to agent on and don't even realize that he was
exposed to Asian orange. So you just need to get
with someone who understands the law, the VA law, and
help you get through the process.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
But don't give up.
Speaker 7 (40:11):
It's trying and it's tiring, it is oh god, it's
mind blowing. But you can get through this and and
you can. You can be successful with this. You know,
you got the mental health during that time. You didn't
know whether or not you were going to Vietnam. You
will you on edge. Also, the racism was raging high.
I mean it was, it was. It was really bad
(40:32):
during the time. So don't give up. There's a way
to get your benefits. You just got to find the
right people to do it for you.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
And what about Pamela, And I know we we we
hear from a lot of veterans in Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I remember that area. But yes, those veterans who went
to Afghanistan in.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
The Gulf War, the Gulf War, so yes, yes, so
so those veterans as well. If you go into the
Gulf War and you have now you know it's part
of the pack d that okay. So Packed Act is
just a law. You can't say, well, I want to
get I want to get benefits for the Packed Act.
You gotta have a you have to have a condition, okay.
(41:10):
So don't just think that because you were in that
area during that time that you can receive benefits. You
got to have an injury you just can't get it
or mental It may be something that you saw. You
may have seen your buddy get blown up. That's PTSD.
So you have to know what it is that you
won't So it has to be it has to be.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Written out to a point where.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
They understand and you understand what you're doing. So get
with someone who understands how to put this, these these
documents together for you. And the right up is so
important that right up is everything, the diagnosis, the treatment
and the right up it's everything. But don't ever give up.
And Gulf War veterans, you're out there, you need to
(41:53):
go get your benefits because laws have changed, not only
for the goulf War veterans, but also for the Vietnam veterans.
The law chain and August of August twenty twenty two.
They got a lot of presumptives out there, and I
guarantee you most of you qualify for them.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
You just need to go to the doctor.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Yeah, what is your number again, Miss Pamela Pullings?
Speaker 7 (42:14):
My number is one eight four four seven two six
eight eight sixty seven. Give it again, one eight four
four seven two six eight eight six seven.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And you do have a website?
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Yes, the website is v as in victor you as
in uniform, oh as an oscar s as in Sierra
l LC dot com. V as in Victor you as
in uniform, oh as an oscar s as in Sierra
l LC dot com.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Sounds good.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
Any last words you like to say to our listeners
this day.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yes, basically, if you served in the military for any
time that you need to go get your benefits. Don't
sit on it, don't wait. You know the law changes
every single day, and what you qualify for today, you
(43:14):
might not qualify for tomorrow. So don't sit and sit
back and wait and say, well, I'll do it another time.
Do it right now because it's good. Right now, it's
really good. And VA is not going anywhere. I know
a lot of people always asking me, is a VA
going if? Are they gonna shut it down? No, they're
not shutting it down. As long as there's a military
VA will be open, okay, So go out there get
your benefits. Gulf War veterans, Vietnam veterans, Korean veterans, World
(43:39):
War II veterans, go get your benefits. And those veterans
that are serving on ACTI duty right now, do.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
Those BDD claims. You all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (43:48):
BDD claims before you get out, go ahead and file
they claim so that you can get your one hundred
percent upon walking out that door.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
It can happen.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Sounds good.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yeah, sister, you've had given us a wealth of information.
Thank you always always, It's just wonderful. Miss Pamela Pullans,
the CEO of the Veterans United Outreach Services. Her number
again eight four four seven two six eight eight sixty seven.
Give her a call or check out the website.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
Thank you sister, Thank you Bell.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
You are so wi And happy birthday again to Exavier Monger, Happy.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
Birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah I know, thank you for being here. Look forward
to the next time.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Yes, definitely, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
You are so welcome. I want to thank you callers.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I want to thank you listeners for joining us this
day on the BEV Johnson Show.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
We do, we really do appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (44:52):
So until tomorrow, please be saved, keep a cool head, y'all,
and don't let any one steal your joy. Until tomorrow,
I'm BEB Johnson, and y'all keep the faith.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
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Speaker 1 (45:13):
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