January 9, 2025 • 54 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to all who have served, are serving, and will
serve in the Armed services, to the veterans in Christ
Podcast with your host, doctor and Navy veteran k l. Rich,
we pray that every battle in your spiritual, personal, and
physical life is one as we follow Christ, who was
our commanding officer in this field called life. Whether you
are here for spiritual encouragement, information on veteran benefits, BTSD
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suicide prevention, or want to know the latest military news,
we are here to serve you. Now Here is your host,
doctor k l.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Rich. Hi, and welcome to today's podcast, Veterans and Christ.
I pray that you all have had a blessed and
wonderful week so far, and that the remainder of this
week will continue to be blessed for you as well.
Can you believe that we are in twenty twenty five?
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I mean, these these months, these weeks, these days are
passing by so fast. And however, I just pray at wherever,
if you're a veteran, if you are act of duty,
if you are reservist, if you are a first responder,
if you are a family to someone who is or
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have served, then I pray that you having a blessed
and wonderful year of so far, and that the remainder
of this year will continue to be blessed for you
as well. Again, I am doctor kol Rich, I am
a Navy veteran, and I am here today to just
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give information spiritually and in the physical natural realm for
all our fellow service men and women, veterans and first
responders and service family. And so we honor you, We
honor your service to this nation. We tell you of
God's love and his salvation. We give you information that
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you can use, whether a veteran, active duty, reservist, first responder,
or family member of someone we're in dressed white, greens
or blue. So again, welcome to Veterans in Christ podcast.
Now today we're gonna We're gonna be as always, we
come to you with the spiritual word before we go
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into talking about other things as it relates to being
a veteran or a service active duty service member or
those that are first responders or service family members. However,
the first thing we want to do is to pray.
We know that prayer is our best weapon against the
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enemy and or not. If you're not praying, then you
are defenseless. Guess what, because the enemy is going to
come and attack. Okay, those who are serving, those who
have served, you know what I'm talking about. You know
that you have to be prepared for any event if
there's an outbreak of some type of situation. You know,
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if you've served in not Rag, if you served in Afghanistan,
if you have served on any if you were in
Vietnam or whatever you may have served, if you are
not prepared with your weapon on hand, and guess what,
you are not ready. So this morning, I want to
start off with a word of prayer because we know
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the one thing about God is that we can come
to him. It doesn't matter what time of day, what
time of night, what part of the year, it doesn't matter.
We can always go to the Lord in prayer. He's
always in tune to hear us pray. So let us
let us this morning open up with a word of prayer.
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They're Heaven, Me follow God. We just thank you, God, Lord,
for allowing us to come into your presence this morning. Lord.
We thank you, Lord for all the things that you've
done for us last year, and we thank you for
the things that you're doing and will do this year. Lord,
We ask Lord that you will forgive us for all
our sins. We ask that you would cleanse us from
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all unrighteousness. Lord. Lord, we asked that you would cover
the men and women in uniform, Lord, and those that
are family members and friends of those who have and
are serving. Right now, in the name of Jesus, we
pray Lord that you will cover our branches of our
military right now. Lord, we pray that you will give
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the leaders the wisdom to know what to do in
various situations. Lord, we pray that those who are following leadership, Lord,
that they would do so as you would have them.
To dear Lord as right now in the name of Jesus,
that you would give wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Lord. Those
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who know you, Lord, we ask it they would be
encouraged and they will be embolden to share the good
news about you. Lord. We ask that those who do
not know you, Lord, that they will see someone who
is serving you, Lord, and they will want to know
more about you, Lord, and that they will accept you
as their lord and save your Lord before it is
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too late. Lord. We know the hour is whinding down, Lord,
and we ask Lord that you will help your people today. Lord,
let us be a light in the darkness. In the
name of Jesus. Lord, we pray Lord for those that
are serving, that you will put a hedge of protection
around them. In the name of Jesus, we pray for
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those who have served, Lord, that you will protect them. Lord,
God their minds, God their hearts, God their body's. Lord,
He'll deliver and set free. In the name of Jesus.
We pray for the family members of those who have
served in our serving. Lord, we pray Lord that you
would help them as they are being a support system
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for their families right now, in the name of Jesus. Lord, Lord,
we just ask right now, Lord that we would honor
you and all of our service. Lord, rather in the
military or outside the military. Lord, we ask that we
were still serve and honor you because we're in your
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army and you are our commanding officer. We just asks
all these things in your Son's name, Jesus, you're sure
a hummashid, Thank God. Amen. Amen. Well, once again, I
pray that you all are having a blessed week. We
need to pray for all the different things that's taking
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place right now. California, is La has so a lot
of fires that's just out of the country right now,
and so we need to pray for those that are
in harms way. From what I understand, there have been
some deaths.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We wanna just pray for those families, Pray for those
that have lost things. Uh Uh, pray for those that
are f the first responders that are going into the
action into Horm's way. Uh. We want to also uh
we know that there was a U A Charry event
the first day of the year, and the things have
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just been popping since day one, and so we definitely
want to uh keep those that are going through right
now in prayer. Well, today we're gonna be talking about
veteran benefits, going back through some things we may have covered.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We have new people that may be listening in tuning in. Uh.
A lot of times many veterans uh uh, those that
are active duty get out the military and then they
don't know uh what they are entitled to. So we're
gonna go over some things today, some things that they
may be entitled to once they get out. But before
we go into that, I want to go to the
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Book of Joshua. The Book of Joshua, and this is
when chapter one actually chapter one in the Book of Joshua,
chapter one, and this is when Joshua succeeded Moses as
being the leader of Israel, or Moses had departed and
there was an installation of a new leader. And isn't
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it something that within the next few days, actually eleven
days from now, we two in the United States will
be installing a new leader. Okay, a change of the guard.
And so right now we're we're Joshua was being installed
as he was the change of the guard. And so
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I want to go to Joshua chapter one and verse
one because those of us who served, we know when
there was a change of the guard, there was a
big deal when you had a new commanding officer that
was coming aboard. And I remember I was on the
honor guard when I served, and I actually like being
on the honor guard. For those who may not know,
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if you are civilian, you don't know what the honor
guard is. It's those that that that come together. They're
part of a team. Where you have when there's a
funeral and you see those that's dressed up and they
may be from the same branch or service or different branches.
And you probably saw that take place with the recent
passing of ex president former president rather former President Jimmy Carter.
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Where you have a change of the guard, or you
have a funeral service where they do the gun salutes,
some may carry the casket. You have those that hold
the flags. They're doing the honors, they're doing the marching,
and you see, so that's the Honor Guard, all right.
And so therefore, when when we had a change of command,
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or someone was retiring or someone died. I remember one
year when I served, when I was serving on the
Honor Guard and we had to we had a function
at a actually it was Memorial Day, I remember for
May thirty if it was a Memorial Day service out
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at the cemetery, and it was so hot that day
was so hot, and we had our dress whites on.
But you know, for those who are in the Navy,
you know you had those long sleeve dressed whites and
those black pat leather shoes, and so we in full
dress whites. And I think it was like ninety seven
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degrees or something out there. It was so hot. And
one thing you learn is do not do not make
sure to bend your knees, do not staying just totally straight,
keep those knees bent or whatever, or you will be
on the pavement. And I remember saying to myself, if
I'm here one more minute, i am gonna be face down.
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And that's the last thing. That's the last thing that
you want to happen. It used to be face down
on the pavement, remember the Islor Guard just when bloop
and that would be so embarrassing. It was so hot.
I mean, they called out every single person that was
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in that cemetery. I think we were standing for about
two hours at parade reds and then we changed position,
but it just felt like they called out every single
person that was there in the cemetery. And I was like,
if I stand here one more minute, i am down
on the ground. Okay. It was so oh, it was
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so hot and miserable. But anyway, that was part of
servant on the Honor Guard, and so so anyway, in Joshua,
we have a change of the guard. A change of
the guard, that change a leadership, and as I mentioned earlier,
we're soon to have a change of leadership in Washington. Okay,
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so Donald Trump, former president forty five, will be current
president forty seven. And so in Joshua, Chapter one, verse one.
It says, after the death of Moses, the servant of God,
the Lord said to Joshua's son of none, Moses, eight, Moses,
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my servant is dead. Now then you all and those
people and these people get ready to cross the Jordan
River into the land I'm about to give to you
and give to them to the Israelites. And so I
want to just stop right there. So you have immediately
as when Moses died, and after they had donder, I
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believe it was thirty days of morning, then you have
Joshua who succeeded him, because Moses was Joshua's mentor and
he was training him for leadership. Joshua was a man
of battle, he was a man of war. He knew
how to command because he had done it under the
leadership of Moses. Now it was a change of the guard.
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And now instead of him taking orders, although he was
still taking orders from God, but now he was the
one giving the orders. Okay. So in order to be
a good leader, guess what, you gotta be a good follower.
Come on, now, many people want to lead, but few
want to follow. And so in order to be a
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good leader, you have to learn how to lead, all right.
So Joshua had learned from Moses what it took to
be a good leader, and he still had to take
direction as Moses did, from the Lord's The Lord was
giving him direction that he was going to uh, that
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they were going to cross the Jordan, and they because
God had promised that they were gonna receive the land
that he had promised their forefathers Abraham, Isaac Jacob. So
they had been rescued from Egypt up under the leadership
of Moses. But now God was bringing them into the
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land of Promise. And in chapter three it says, I
would give you every place where your where you set
your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory would extend
from the desert of Lebanon, from the Great River the Euphrates,
all the hit tight country to the Mediterranean Sea in
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the west. No one will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life as I was
with Moses. So I will be with you. I will
never leave you nor forsake you. So you have here
God given that promise, and he's renewing that promise that
he had given to Moses, that he was gonna be
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with him isn't it something that we can always count
on the Lord to be with us. The Lord is
always there, no regardless of what trials we face, regardless
of what situation your face. That you may have gone
out of the military, you might be like, I don't
know where I fit in or what to do. Now,
guess what God is with you? And when we go
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to the Lord in prayer, he gives wisdom, He gives knowledge,
He gives understanding through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
All right, so you're never alone. You may be in
the military right now. You may be a commanding officer,
or you may you may be a a what you
call it, a private, or an airman, or whatever your
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rank is. We all have to follow someone. And so
therefore we know that regardless of word we serve, the
Lord is always with us. Come on, now, those who
serve him, those who love him, those who honor him.
The Lord is always with us. So he was telling
God was telling Joshua that just as I was with Moses,
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so I will be with you. So in verse six,
the Lord told him, be strong and courageous, because you
will lead these people to inherit the land. I swore
to your ancestor to give to them. Be strong and
very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my
servant Moses gave you. Do not turn from it to
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the right or to the left, that you may be
successful wherever you go. Keep this book of the Law
always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything rich
and in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do
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not be afraid, do not be discarage, for the Lord,
your God will be with you wherever you go, and
we too can keep this promise. Just as God told Joshua,
be strong and be courageous. He is still wanting us
to do the same thing. Be strong and courageous. If
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you're a veteran you've served your time, still be strong
and courageous. If your active duty, be strong and courageous.
If you're reservist, be strong and courageous. If you're a
first responder, be strong and courageous. Know that the Lord
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is with you, and we can always take comfort in
the Lord being there with us. He is our provider,
our Jehovah Jarrah. All right. He is our creator, our Eloeen,
he is our Emmanuel, he is with us. He is
it's the I am that I am, which encompasses everything
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that we could ever hope for and everything that we
could ever need. Amen. And we're gonna stop right there.
And I pray that you would take this to heart.
That we are to always be strong and courageous because
guess what God is with us? Amen. And he wants
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us to be faithful to him. He wants us to
honor him. He wants us to worship him. He wants
us to pray to him. He wants us to have
a relationship with him. We're gonna take a quick break
and we'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
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say bye, told my children not to cry, told my
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with no weap in my head, and the pocket all
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to my front, got the ly to my front, spend
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send the early morning.
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Raid Moon Ray in the early morning Ray Ray.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
And that is in the early morning Rain by Jonathan
Michael Fleming. And you can catch his military cadences. He
has a lot of them on YouTube and Spotify that
Johnathan Michael Fleming in the Early Morning Rain. And he
also helps homeless veterans, and you can if you're interested
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in donating to UH to Go Star Families helping support
Go Star Families house homeless veterans. Then you can go
on his website on his page and donate there. All right,
so we're gonna talk We're gonna switch gears, shift gears in.
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We're gonna talk about v A disability compensation, v A
disability compensation. And many times when veterans or are those
that are active duty to get when they get ready
to get out, it would benefit you if you think
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that you need to make some claims on some things
that you might have gone through while you were in
that you start that. You could start the process actually
right before you get out. I'm not sure how many
days prior, but when you're getting ready to do your
exit whatever they have you doing for us, exiting out
of the military, transitioning back into civilian life, then many
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active duty start applying for benefits during that time. And
let me just say this for those who are serving
in the military right now, if you if there are
any issues that you want to you might think you
might need to follow a disability claim for upon getting
ready to get out or after you get out, you
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need to make sure please get it documented before you
get out. At go to your your medical your physician,
and make sure to have it documented. If you have
in corporal ton them, if you're having any type of
join issues, if whatever it is, whatever it is, get
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some documentation in your medical record and get a copy
of it before you leave. If you have been stationed
in Iraq or Afghanistan, the web case may be. And
sometimes people that those that have served, they don't always
is go to medical and sometimes I've seen where I've
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read World veterans their medical reports get lost or whatever
case may be, everything's not documented because they were overseas
or whatever case may be. Do your best, do your
best to try to get those things documented. Also, before
you get out, get the names and addresses of some
of your comrades that you serve with, because if you
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if you need to file a claim later on and
you want those you want to have some kind of
evidence to support whatever you're claiming. Then those buddy letters
because you can write have you can have your comrades
to write buddy letters where they can. You know, these
are letters that you sit in with your disability claim
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that you're filing, and that that can help support your claim.
Those that have served with you and they may have
seen well, you know, you got injured or whatever the
case may be. When there's also a lack of evidence
in your medical fouling, even if there is evidence in
your medical file, if you have served with someone and
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you all serve together and someone is an eyewitness or whatever,
know that what you have gone through when you were
in buddy letters helped the VA to make determinations as
to your disability claim. So please make sure that you
get names and addresses of some of your comrades, those
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who may have testimony as to what you may have
gone through while you were in service. And keep in contact,
not just you know, for this, but because it's always
good too. If you're able to keep in contact with
some of those people that you served in with, you know,
you build friendships and relationships with people. But also you
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may need this evidence later on if you are going
through what if you're trying to file a disability claim.
So VA disability compensation, So when we talk about disability claims,
you're dealing with VA disability compensation oftentimes, and so VA
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disability compensation is pay that offers a monthly tax free
payment to veterans who got sick or injured while serving
in the military, and to veterans whose service made an
existing condition worse. You may qualify for VA disability benefits
for physical conditions and mental health conditions like PTSD that
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developed before doing or after service. Find out how to apply.
And so this is what you're You're saying to the
VA that you know, what I served, I was injured
or a situation, an injury that I may have already
had became aggravated or became worse while I was serving,
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and I am asking for monetary relief. All right. Now,
disability compensation ranges from the VA. From the VA rating
you from ten percent to one hundred percent, Okay, So
if you're rated anywhere between ten percent and one hundred percent,
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then that's when you then you get some type of
monthly compensation. If the VA rates you at zero percent,
that's still a foot in the door. That's saying that
the VA has acknowledged that there was a service connection injury,
but you're not getting paid for it. Now, what that
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does allow is for you to to possibly do a
an appeal or get an increase to get it rated
higher so that you can be compensated for that issue.
So the VA. They rate you between zero percent and
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one hundred percent, but you start getting payment of some
sort at the ten percent level. All right, So eligibility
for VA disability again, this is when you have a
service connect the condition. So someone may ask, well, if
I had a condition prior to going in, and will
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the VA still pay me? And that is quite possible
if the condition was aggravated during your military service. So
the if the V if the military let you in
knowing that you had this particular situation, okay, so they
knew it is documented, they gave you a waiver to
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get in, okay, and that condition was aggravated it while
you were in, then yes, it is quite possible that
you can get paid, be granted VA disability because the
condition was aggravated with the military knowing that you had
it prior to service. So some people may think, oh,
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because it was a pre existing condition, that, oh, well
I'm not going to get anything, and that's not correct.
If it was aggravated, okay, And this is where you
need that medical evidence to say, you know, this was
the military. They knew when I when I joined, then
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I had this condition. However, the condition was made worse
during my military service and so so this is why
it's so important to have that medical documentation. So am
I eligible for VA compensation? Well, you may be eligible
if you meet these conditions. Both of these must be true.
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You have a current illness or injury that affects your
mind or body. And you served on active duty, active
duty for training, or inactive duty training. Okay, so you
have to have a current illness. So that means that
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if I don't have something, I may have had something
five years ago, but if I no longer have it
at the time I file a claim, then more than
likely I'm gonna get denied. So you have to have
a current diagnosis, a current diagnosis. So when you you
might have had this in the military, you say, you
know what, right now, I'm having this situation. I'm having
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the same issue. Therefore, you need a currant diagnosis, all right,
when you file your claim, make sure that it's something
currant diagnosis, that your doctor has your medical record to
say that you have X, Y, and Z, and you
serve don't active duty or active duty for training or
inactive duty training. And at least one of these must
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be true. You got sicker injured while serving in the military.
And can link this condition to your illness or injury.
Let me just state this is that oftentimes veterans, they
would get what's called a nexus letter. What's a nexus letter?
A nexus letter is a nexus or a connection where
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they were a medical profession ties your your your your service,
uh your your service to whatever the injury that you receive,
so they make a medical nexus. A nexus is a
connection saying that X was calls because of military service.
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Now there's a lot of veterans that pay organizations to
write these nexes. Let me just caution you on this.
Does a nexus letter guarantee that you're gonna get approved
by the VA? No? Let me repeat that. Does it
Does it prove or does it mean that just because
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I go get a nexus letter that I'm automatically going
to be approved for VA benefits b VA compensation? No,
it does not. However, it can help. Okay, some le
some of these these letters that veterans are paying for
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twelve hundred dollars of fifteen hundred dollars. If you could
get a nexus free from your doctor, please try to
do that first before you go to a company that
is gonna that you have to pay out of the pocket. Now,
many veterans are successful without having to do a nexus letter.
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All right, if you have proper documentation in your medical file,
if you if you have all your ducks in a
row where you can even name dates and and when
events took place and when you went to the doctor.
If you have all this in your medical file, then
the VA raider can also or that that CNP examiner
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which means that compensation and pension examiner that they often
will send you to prior to the VA making a decision,
can also make a connection with your military service and
whatever the issue that you may at hand have at hand,
if there's proper medical evidence connecting the two, so you
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hopefully you will get a good CNP examiner. Now, some
veterans they go ahead and they pay these high priced
nexus letters, and sometimes they have success with it, but
it's not a guarantee. It's not a guarantee. Now, my
recommendation would be you try the free route before you
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go and pay this, because you would hate to pay
for this type of money. And and and let me
just say this, I had a a veteran service officer
to tell me at the time that oh, you need
to uh uh get a nexus letter, and I was like,
absolutely not. I was not about to pay twelve hundred
dollars for a UH for a UH nexus letter on
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a Maybe that's just me. That's just me, and I'm
glad I didn't. Okay, But for some you, some may say, well,
you know, I think it's worth it. I'm gonna go ahead.
It's just like those that use attorneys. Okay. Some people
feel like they they can get better results while with
an attorney, So it's up to you, UH to decide
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what might work best for you. Another thing is you
had a injury or an illness or injury before you
joined them and survey made it worse, and this is
called a pre service disability claim. Or you had a
disability related to your active duty service that didn't appear
until after you ended your service. So you might say, well,
I've been out ten twenty years, thirty years and I
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never filed. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. Go ahead
and put it in. Okay. If you feel like, hey,
I have something that was not maybe showing up at
the time, but over time, I have these issues and
I believe that they're related to when I was serving
and the military and I've I've been out for so
many years, that doesn't matter. Go ahead and submit. Now,
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let me just say this for those who may be
thinking about putting in a VA disability claim, you could
call the main number and what do What's called an
intend to file an intend to file? What is an
intent to file? That means that I am about and
I am trying to gather all my evidence to submit
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a claim to the VA. Well, an intent to foul.
What it does is is basically like saving the date.
So when you do a VA claim, from the time
that you file the VA claim to the time they
make a decision, if they are ruling your favor, then
you get back paid. So for example, if I submit
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a VA claim in January and they don't make a
decision till November, then guess what I will More than
likely if they rule in my favor, I will be
bad paid to January. Okay. So with the intent to fiul,
what that does is it puts the VA on notice
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that I'm going to file a claim although I haven't
filed it yet. What this does is from the time
that you put the intent of filing, they bad pay
you to that particular date. So if I call on
January to fifteenth, then say, you know what, I'm letting
the VA know that I want to do an intent
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to file and therefore my intent to file. I intend
to file a claim. So that means that you have
one year one year from the date that you contact
the VA to let them know that you plan on
filing the claim. You have to do it within a year. Okay,
in order for that back pay to go back to
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that intent to file date. That means that once you
file the claim, if you, for example, if you fil
January to fifteenth, I mean, I'm sorry, let me take
that back. If you do an intent to file an
intent to file on January to fifteenth, but you don't
actually file to May the fifteen, well even though you
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didn't actually file to May the fifteen, by you putting
in the intent to file on January to fifteen, as
long as you do it within the year, then the VA,
should you get approved, they will backpay you to that
January fifteenth date. All right, that's what that means. So
then intend to file. If you say, okay, well, what's well,
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how do I do the intent to file? You can
call one eight hundred eight to seven one thousand. That's
one eight hundred eighty seven, one thousand, and go through
the prompts zero you press zero, then press one, and
then they'll ask you what branch okay or me I
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forget the orders in Remember number three is for navy, okay,
and so, and you let them know that I want
to do an intent to file okay. So they'll let
you know. But if they don't say it, then you
know that from that time, from that time on, you
have one year to do a claim. Now, if you
let that run out, you gotta start all over again,
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all right. So for some presumptive conditions, for some conditions,
they automatically assume that your service caused your conditions. So
we have uh what's called the Pack Act now and
we we we're not gonna go into all of that.
But some presumptive conditions, they could be chronic, which you
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mean long lasting, and that uh illness appears within a
year after discharge or while you were in the illness
caused by contact with contaminants, toxic chemicals, or hazardous materials,
or i UH illness that was caused during your time
as a pow that's a prisoner of war. So you
have some presumptive illnesses. So the VA is saying when
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you hear uh, when you're hearing about the pack Act
or whatever it's dealing with presumptive illnesses, that they say, Okay, well,
because you served during this particular time frame or at
this particular duty station, or during this particular period. For example,
those that may have served in Vietnam and we're exposed
to agent orange, Uh, they have uh, if I'm correct,
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they have what's called presumptive illnesses. Okay, so certain cancers
is uh. The VA will say, Okay, we're presuming that
if you got this particular cancer, that it was due
if you if you served in Vietnam, it was due
to you being exposed to agent orange. So therefore, we're
gonna presume that you got this because of your time
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in service during by serving over in Vietnam. So we're
gonna automatically presume that this is the case, and we're
gonna grant you whatever. Okay, that's presumptive. Some people that
if they were serving during a certain time or a
certain a certain time frame or in a certain area
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while they were in the service, and you had high pretension,
you wind up having high pretension. Well, they say, well,
you know what, we're gonna presume that because of this
particular time frame they were in the service, or because
they served in this particular area, well, their hypertension is
due to this. So that is a presumptive condition where
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they would rate you from zero to one hundred percent
as a presumption that it was due to your military service.
So this is something that you definitely want to do
your research on. Talk to maybe a veteran service officer,
and let me just say this, when they come to
veteran service officers. We don't have time to go through
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all of this today, but we're gonna be talking about
this more often. Do your research as other veterans about
the if you're if you're thinking about going to a
particular veteran service officer, all of them are not worth
their salt. Okay, let me just say this. You have
some good ones, and I have been blessed to have
one in particular that gave me a lot of information.
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And I thank God because God was the one that
put that veteran service officer in my path, and so
it was things that I didn't know at the time,
and this particular man gave me so much information and
I did what he said, and I thank God because
it was first God and then God had set that
particular Veterans Service officer in my path, and you know,
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and so I thank God for that. And then I've
had one that was like wow, and I just say,
wasn't worth two pennies rubbed together. Okay, So make sure
to do your homework because some they they're in it
for the veterans and they're really really trying to help
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you and they want to see every veteran succeed. And
then you have those as only there for I guess
a check. And because the main thing is you have
to be your own best advocate. You definitely do. You
have to be your own best advocate because you know,
those that are getting paid to work with veterans, they're
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gonna get that money regardless of if the if you
win your case or not. It's just like an attorney,
you know, if you if you have to some of
them that don't go, some of them that charge I
regardless if you win or not. Okay. So the thing
is is that you have to be your own best advocate.
Make sure to do your research, make sure there's so
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much information on for veterans. It's one guy that's on
YouTube and his name is i'm'a try to pull that
up while I'm here uh with you all uh this morning.
If I can find him. His name is Dwayne, and
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I just remember the first name, but his n his
name is Dwayne, and if I he he has uh
a plethora of information that he gives to veterans. And
so if you are a veteran and you want information,
I'm not able to pull it up right now. But
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the thing is is that his name is Dwane and
I can't remember. You might be able to put in
Dwayne and v A let me see, Okay, here it is,
hold on, let me just sit here. Dwayne and I'm
gonna try to put in because I just remember his
first name in Va Va. Let me see here if
I got the name right, I think his first name
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is Dwayne. Okay, yeah, Dwayne Kimball, Dwayne Kimble. And he
has an organization called k M D eighty nine. V
A claims Consulting. He's on YouTube and he gives so
much information for veterans, and he has a lot of videos.
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He used to be a veterans rating specialist, so he's
coming from experience from the inside, Okay, so you definitely
want to listen to him. He has a book or
two out where you can get information regarding various benefits
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that you may be entitled to or how to even
go about doing it. So his name is Dwayne Kimball.
You can find him on YouTube. His his his his
business is k m D eighty nine v A Claims
Consulting and he has a lot of different videos. Also,
it's another one on here. His name is Craig. Let
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me try to find him. His name is Craig and
he's he's pretty hilarious. Let me see. His name is
comeback Craig, Comeback Craig. That's combat CEE on M B
A T. Craig And he gives a lot of information,
valuable information as well regarding for how to win your
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VA claim which you need to know that you don't
need to say, what you need to say, what you
need to have, what you don't need to have. So
these are a couple of real good ones that are
on YouTube that you can follow, listen to and get
a lot of information. Also, if you go to social
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media platforms, there's different veteran groups that's on Facebook that
you can join and just ask questions. Read it. If
you're on Reddit, Reddit has a veteran benefit some page
and a lot of veterans ask questions and then different
veterans they answer back based upon their own experiences. So
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there's so much information that you can have. You don't
want to go into filing without knowing your information. Get
your information. Get as much information as you can. They
also help you with when you after you have fouled
and it's time for a compensation exam, your CNP exam,
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that's compensation and pension. You want to know some things
before you go up in there. Okay, you need to
know about the DBQs. These are questions that that the
C and P examiner is normally going to ask. You
want to be prepared when you go in. One thing
I want to say, because we're running out of time,
But one thing I want to say is before you
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go into an exam, make sure to also have your
your records, your own documentation and some of your records
with you. Because, believe it or not, Uh, there have
been times when I have gone into a C and
P exam and the and the VA had not submitted
everything that that c and P examiner needed in order
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to make a decision. Because before okay, even though the
CNP examiner does not is not the one that rates you,
the VA does pay attention to what that CNP examiner says.
And the CNP examiner is the one that's really gonna say, well,
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it's more likely than not or vice versa in regards
to your particular condition being service connected or not. And
the VA weighs a lot that that CNP exam is
very weighty when it comes to the VA making a
determination as to you getting benefits or not. Therefore, you
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need to be prepared, have your medical records with you
so that if the CNP examiner is missing something, then
you can say, okay, I got you, I got that.
Here it is or whatever case may be. Now, you
have some CNP examiners that's just uh that that are
pro veterans, some are not. Some you know, they are listening.
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Uh they they want to, you know, help if possible,
and so they are listening, look at your records and
so and some is like whatever, okay, so again, but
you want to be prepared. Another thing, and we're gonna
leave with this. Another thing is when you go actually
when you file your exam, when you file for VA compensation,
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don't send in a eight hundred page medical record. Okay.
If you're filing for certain things, go through your medical record,
pull out those those most important things. So whatever pertains
to that particular issue, pull that out, make copies of it,
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submit it so that the VA raider do not have
to read through eight hundred pages because guess what, they're
not gonna do it. They're not gonna do it. So
you want to make it as simple as possible. If
you're going, for example, you're dealing with for example, if
you're dealing with spine issues, then whatever whenever you went
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to the doctor for your spine pull that out, okay,
make copies of it, submit that to the VA, and
you can even make notes so they can easily follow.
And therefore, you want to make it as simple as
possible for that raider, okay, so they can say, okay,
well this is on this particular day, on that particular day.
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You don't want them to have to go through a
whole file because if they have to do that, you
just don't want to take the chance of you getting
a raider that is not going to be willing to
go through that entire medical record. So you be the
one to go through your medical records. Comb through. I
always suggest comb through your medical record. Okay, highlight things,
pull it out. I'm telling you this from experience. All right,
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highlight things, pull it out. Document it. Make it as
easy as possible for that particular raider that may be
going through your file so they can say, okay, spine issues,
David Die diagnosed with this, this happened at this particular
time and everything, And let me just say this. You
may say, well, it's overwhelming or it's a lot of work,
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but the thing is, if you're wanting success, then you
need to be your own best advocate. And this is
even when you have someone working with and for you.
Don't just leave it to them. Make sure that you
check behind them. I can't emphasize that enough. Make sure
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that you check behind them to make sure that they
have done due diligence when it comes to your compensation claim.
All right. I could keep going on and on, but
we are running. We are out of time. We are
out of time, and we're gonna be back on next Thursday.
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So we were having Tuesdays and Thursdays. But there's a
schedule change, so we're having only Thursdays, so every Thursday
you can join in on this vet Terance in Christ
podcast and I pray that it has been a blessing
to you and we're for those who follow us on
It is Finished in Times Ministries where we bring a
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word that you may not have heard as it relates
to the Bible. And in Times. I have mentioned that
we're gonna be ending regular podcasts UH for it is
Finished and Veterans in Christ in November, we're not going
to be on regularly. I'm switching. UH. We're going to
be doing evangelism. We're gonna be hosting Bible uh online
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interactive Bible study. If you are wanting to maybe study
the Book of Revelation, we're going to be hosting it.
It is Finished in Times Ministries on our website it
is Finished dot com. That's I t I z finished
dot com And on Friday nights, if you click on
the zoom, it's gonna be via zoom, We're gonna be
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hosting H. I'm gonna be only taking a Revelation Bible
study and it's gonna be interactive and so you'll be
able to participate, ask questions. We're gonna give testimonials, encouragement
and discuss the ladies events and things on that. It's
gonna be for an hour every Friday at eight pm
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Eastern Standard time, seven pm Central. And this is every Friday,
and again you can go to it is Finish dot com.
That's it I Z Finish dot com and that's every
Friday night, eight pm Eastern Standard time, seven pm Central
where we're going over the Book of Revelation via and
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it's gonna be via Zoom. So you can go on
the website, click on the zoom tab and click on
the link that's on there and it will take you
where you can be on the Zoom as we have
our interactive Bible study online. All right, I pray that
today's podcast has been a blessed to you and that you,
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as a veteran in Christ, active duty service members, first responder,
or a service member of someone that is or have served,
that you know that God loves you and he is
there for you. Until next time.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
Thanks for tuning in to Veterans in Christ. We pray
that you found today's podcast informative and we look forward
to being with you again during the next podcast. May
the Lord blessed, and keep you going out and coming in.
Welcome to all who have served, are serving, and will
serve in the Armed services, to the veterans in Christ
Podcast with your host, doctor and Navy veteran k l. Rich,
we pray that every battle in your spiritual, personal, and
physical life is one as we follow Christ, who was
our commanding officer in this field called life. Whether you
are here for spiritual encouragement, information on veteran benefits, BTSD
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suicide prevention, or want to know the latest military news,
we are here to serve you. Now Here is your host,
doctor k l.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Rich. Hi, and welcome to today's podcast, Veterans and Christ.
I pray that you all have had a blessed and
wonderful week so far, and that the remainder of this
week will continue to be blessed for you as well.
Can you believe that we are in twenty twenty five?
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I mean, these these months, these weeks, these days are
passing by so fast. And however, I just pray at wherever,
if you're a veteran, if you are act of duty,
if you are reservist, if you are a first responder,
if you are a family to someone who is or
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have served, then I pray that you having a blessed
and wonderful year of so far, and that the remainder
of this year will continue to be blessed for you
as well. Again, I am doctor kol Rich, I am
a Navy veteran, and I am here today to just
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give information spiritually and in the physical natural realm for
all our fellow service men and women, veterans and first
responders and service family. And so we honor you, We
honor your service to this nation. We tell you of
God's love and his salvation. We give you information that
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you can use, whether a veteran, active duty, reservist, first responder,
or family member of someone we're in dressed white, greens
or blue. So again, welcome to Veterans in Christ podcast.
Now today we're gonna We're gonna be as always, we
come to you with the spiritual word before we go
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into talking about other things as it relates to being
a veteran or a service active duty service member or
those that are first responders or service family members. However,
the first thing we want to do is to pray.
We know that prayer is our best weapon against the
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enemy and or not. If you're not praying, then you
are defenseless. Guess what, because the enemy is going to
come and attack. Okay, those who are serving, those who
have served, you know what I'm talking about. You know
that you have to be prepared for any event if
there's an outbreak of some type of situation. You know,
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if you've served in not Rag, if you served in Afghanistan,
if you have served on any if you were in
Vietnam or whatever you may have served, if you are
not prepared with your weapon on hand, and guess what,
you are not ready. So this morning, I want to
start off with a word of prayer because we know
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the one thing about God is that we can come
to him. It doesn't matter what time of day, what
time of night, what part of the year, it doesn't matter.
We can always go to the Lord in prayer. He's
always in tune to hear us pray. So let us
let us this morning open up with a word of prayer.
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They're Heaven, Me follow God. We just thank you, God, Lord,
for allowing us to come into your presence this morning. Lord.
We thank you, Lord for all the things that you've
done for us last year, and we thank you for
the things that you're doing and will do this year. Lord,
We ask Lord that you will forgive us for all
our sins. We ask that you would cleanse us from
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all unrighteousness. Lord. Lord, we asked that you would cover
the men and women in uniform, Lord, and those that
are family members and friends of those who have and
are serving. Right now, in the name of Jesus, we
pray Lord that you will cover our branches of our
military right now. Lord, we pray that you will give
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the leaders the wisdom to know what to do in
various situations. Lord, we pray that those who are following leadership, Lord,
that they would do so as you would have them.
To dear Lord as right now in the name of Jesus,
that you would give wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Lord. Those
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who know you, Lord, we ask it they would be
encouraged and they will be embolden to share the good
news about you. Lord. We ask that those who do
not know you, Lord, that they will see someone who
is serving you, Lord, and they will want to know
more about you, Lord, and that they will accept you
as their lord and save your Lord before it is
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too late. Lord. We know the hour is whinding down, Lord,
and we ask Lord that you will help your people today. Lord,
let us be a light in the darkness. In the
name of Jesus. Lord, we pray Lord for those that
are serving, that you will put a hedge of protection
around them. In the name of Jesus, we pray for
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those who have served, Lord, that you will protect them. Lord,
God their minds, God their hearts, God their body's. Lord,
He'll deliver and set free. In the name of Jesus.
We pray for the family members of those who have
served in our serving. Lord, we pray Lord that you
would help them as they are being a support system
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for their families right now, in the name of Jesus. Lord, Lord,
we just ask right now, Lord that we would honor
you and all of our service. Lord, rather in the
military or outside the military. Lord, we ask that we
were still serve and honor you because we're in your
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army and you are our commanding officer. We just asks
all these things in your Son's name, Jesus, you're sure
a hummashid, Thank God. Amen. Amen. Well, once again, I
pray that you all are having a blessed week. We
need to pray for all the different things that's taking
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place right now. California, is La has so a lot
of fires that's just out of the country right now,
and so we need to pray for those that are
in harms way. From what I understand, there have been
some deaths.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We wanna just pray for those families, Pray for those
that have lost things. Uh Uh, pray for those that
are f the first responders that are going into the
action into Horm's way. Uh. We want to also uh
we know that there was a U A Charry event
the first day of the year, and the things have
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just been popping since day one, and so we definitely
want to uh keep those that are going through right
now in prayer. Well, today we're gonna be talking about
veteran benefits, going back through some things we may have covered.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We have new people that may be listening in tuning in. Uh.
A lot of times many veterans uh uh, those that
are active duty get out the military and then they
don't know uh what they are entitled to. So we're
gonna go over some things today, some things that they
may be entitled to once they get out. But before
we go into that, I want to go to the
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Book of Joshua. The Book of Joshua, and this is
when chapter one actually chapter one in the Book of Joshua,
chapter one, and this is when Joshua succeeded Moses as
being the leader of Israel, or Moses had departed and
there was an installation of a new leader. And isn't
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it something that within the next few days, actually eleven
days from now, we two in the United States will
be installing a new leader. Okay, a change of the guard.
And so right now we're we're Joshua was being installed
as he was the change of the guard. And so
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I want to go to Joshua chapter one and verse
one because those of us who served, we know when
there was a change of the guard, there was a
big deal when you had a new commanding officer that
was coming aboard. And I remember I was on the
honor guard when I served, and I actually like being
on the honor guard. For those who may not know,
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if you are civilian, you don't know what the honor
guard is. It's those that that that come together. They're
part of a team. Where you have when there's a
funeral and you see those that's dressed up and they
may be from the same branch or service or different branches.
And you probably saw that take place with the recent
passing of ex president former president rather former President Jimmy Carter.
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Where you have a change of the guard, or you
have a funeral service where they do the gun salutes,
some may carry the casket. You have those that hold
the flags. They're doing the honors, they're doing the marching,
and you see, so that's the Honor Guard, all right.
And so therefore, when when we had a change of command,
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or someone was retiring or someone died. I remember one
year when I served, when I was serving on the
Honor Guard and we had to we had a function
at a actually it was Memorial Day, I remember for
May thirty if it was a Memorial Day service out
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at the cemetery, and it was so hot that day
was so hot, and we had our dress whites on.
But you know, for those who are in the Navy,
you know you had those long sleeve dressed whites and
those black pat leather shoes, and so we in full
dress whites. And I think it was like ninety seven
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degrees or something out there. It was so hot. And
one thing you learn is do not do not make
sure to bend your knees, do not staying just totally straight,
keep those knees bent or whatever, or you will be
on the pavement. And I remember saying to myself, if
I'm here one more minute, i am gonna be face down.
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And that's the last thing. That's the last thing that
you want to happen. It used to be face down
on the pavement, remember the Islor Guard just when bloop
and that would be so embarrassing. It was so hot.
I mean, they called out every single person that was
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in that cemetery. I think we were standing for about
two hours at parade reds and then we changed position,
but it just felt like they called out every single
person that was there in the cemetery. And I was like,
if I stand here one more minute, i am down
on the ground. Okay. It was so oh, it was
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so hot and miserable. But anyway, that was part of
servant on the Honor Guard, and so so anyway, in Joshua,
we have a change of the guard. A change of
the guard, that change a leadership, and as I mentioned earlier,
we're soon to have a change of leadership in Washington. Okay,
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so Donald Trump, former president forty five, will be current
president forty seven. And so in Joshua, Chapter one, verse one.
It says, after the death of Moses, the servant of God,
the Lord said to Joshua's son of none, Moses, eight, Moses,
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my servant is dead. Now then you all and those
people and these people get ready to cross the Jordan
River into the land I'm about to give to you
and give to them to the Israelites. And so I
want to just stop right there. So you have immediately
as when Moses died, and after they had donder, I
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believe it was thirty days of morning, then you have
Joshua who succeeded him, because Moses was Joshua's mentor and
he was training him for leadership. Joshua was a man
of battle, he was a man of war. He knew
how to command because he had done it under the
leadership of Moses. Now it was a change of the guard.
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And now instead of him taking orders, although he was
still taking orders from God, but now he was the
one giving the orders. Okay. So in order to be
a good leader, guess what, you gotta be a good follower.
Come on, now, many people want to lead, but few
want to follow. And so in order to be a
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good leader, you have to learn how to lead, all right.
So Joshua had learned from Moses what it took to
be a good leader, and he still had to take
direction as Moses did, from the Lord's The Lord was
giving him direction that he was going to uh, that
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they were going to cross the Jordan, and they because
God had promised that they were gonna receive the land
that he had promised their forefathers Abraham, Isaac Jacob. So
they had been rescued from Egypt up under the leadership
of Moses. But now God was bringing them into the
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land of Promise. And in chapter three it says, I
would give you every place where your where you set
your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory would extend
from the desert of Lebanon, from the Great River the Euphrates,
all the hit tight country to the Mediterranean Sea in
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the west. No one will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life as I was
with Moses. So I will be with you. I will
never leave you nor forsake you. So you have here
God given that promise, and he's renewing that promise that
he had given to Moses, that he was gonna be
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with him isn't it something that we can always count
on the Lord to be with us. The Lord is
always there, no regardless of what trials we face, regardless
of what situation your face. That you may have gone
out of the military, you might be like, I don't
know where I fit in or what to do. Now,
guess what God is with you? And when we go
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to the Lord in prayer, he gives wisdom, He gives knowledge,
He gives understanding through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
All right, so you're never alone. You may be in
the military right now. You may be a commanding officer,
or you may you may be a a what you
call it, a private, or an airman, or whatever your
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rank is. We all have to follow someone. And so
therefore we know that regardless of word we serve, the
Lord is always with us. Come on, now, those who
serve him, those who love him, those who honor him.
The Lord is always with us. So he was telling
God was telling Joshua that just as I was with Moses,
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so I will be with you. So in verse six,
the Lord told him, be strong and courageous, because you
will lead these people to inherit the land. I swore
to your ancestor to give to them. Be strong and
very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my
servant Moses gave you. Do not turn from it to
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the right or to the left, that you may be
successful wherever you go. Keep this book of the Law
always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything rich
and in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do
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not be afraid, do not be discarage, for the Lord,
your God will be with you wherever you go, and
we too can keep this promise. Just as God told Joshua,
be strong and be courageous. He is still wanting us
to do the same thing. Be strong and courageous. If
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you're a veteran you've served your time, still be strong
and courageous. If your active duty, be strong and courageous.
If you're reservist, be strong and courageous. If you're a
first responder, be strong and courageous. Know that the Lord
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is with you, and we can always take comfort in
the Lord being there with us. He is our provider,
our Jehovah Jarrah. All right. He is our creator, our Eloeen,
he is our Emmanuel, he is with us. He is
it's the I am that I am, which encompasses everything
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that we could ever hope for and everything that we
could ever need. Amen. And we're gonna stop right there.
And I pray that you would take this to heart.
That we are to always be strong and courageous because
guess what God is with us? Amen. And he wants
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us to be faithful to him. He wants us to
honor him. He wants us to worship him. He wants
us to pray to him. He wants us to have
a relationship with him. We're gonna take a quick break
and we'll be back in just a moment.
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And that is in the early morning Rain by Jonathan
Michael Fleming. And you can catch his military cadences. He
has a lot of them on YouTube and Spotify that
Johnathan Michael Fleming in the Early Morning Rain. And he
also helps homeless veterans, and you can if you're interested
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in donating to UH to Go Star Families helping support
Go Star Families house homeless veterans. Then you can go
on his website on his page and donate there. All right,
so we're gonna talk We're gonna switch gears, shift gears in.
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We're gonna talk about v A disability compensation, v A
disability compensation. And many times when veterans or are those
that are active duty to get when they get ready
to get out, it would benefit you if you think
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that you need to make some claims on some things
that you might have gone through while you were in
that you start that. You could start the process actually
right before you get out. I'm not sure how many
days prior, but when you're getting ready to do your
exit whatever they have you doing for us, exiting out
of the military, transitioning back into civilian life, then many
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active duty start applying for benefits during that time. And
let me just say this for those who are serving
in the military right now, if you if there are
any issues that you want to you might think you
might need to follow a disability claim for upon getting
ready to get out or after you get out, you
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need to make sure please get it documented before you
get out. At go to your your medical your physician,
and make sure to have it documented. If you have
in corporal ton them, if you're having any type of
join issues, if whatever it is, whatever it is, get
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some documentation in your medical record and get a copy
of it before you leave. If you have been stationed
in Iraq or Afghanistan, the web case may be. And
sometimes people that those that have served, they don't always
is go to medical and sometimes I've seen where I've
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read World veterans their medical reports get lost or whatever
case may be, everything's not documented because they were overseas
or whatever case may be. Do your best, do your
best to try to get those things documented. Also, before
you get out, get the names and addresses of some
of your comrades that you serve with, because if you
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if you need to file a claim later on and
you want those you want to have some kind of
evidence to support whatever you're claiming. Then those buddy letters
because you can write have you can have your comrades
to write buddy letters where they can. You know, these
are letters that you sit in with your disability claim
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that you're filing, and that that can help support your claim.
Those that have served with you and they may have
seen well, you know, you got injured or whatever the
case may be. When there's also a lack of evidence
in your medical fouling, even if there is evidence in
your medical file, if you have served with someone and
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you all serve together and someone is an eyewitness or whatever,
know that what you have gone through when you were
in buddy letters helped the VA to make determinations as
to your disability claim. So please make sure that you
get names and addresses of some of your comrades, those
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who may have testimony as to what you may have
gone through while you were in service. And keep in contact,
not just you know, for this, but because it's always
good too. If you're able to keep in contact with
some of those people that you served in with, you know,
you build friendships and relationships with people. But also you
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may need this evidence later on if you are going
through what if you're trying to file a disability claim.
So VA disability compensation, So when we talk about disability claims,
you're dealing with VA disability compensation oftentimes, and so VA
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disability compensation is pay that offers a monthly tax free
payment to veterans who got sick or injured while serving
in the military, and to veterans whose service made an
existing condition worse. You may qualify for VA disability benefits
for physical conditions and mental health conditions like PTSD that
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developed before doing or after service. Find out how to apply.
And so this is what you're You're saying to the
VA that you know, what I served, I was injured
or a situation, an injury that I may have already
had became aggravated or became worse while I was serving,
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and I am asking for monetary relief. All right. Now,
disability compensation ranges from the VA. From the VA rating
you from ten percent to one hundred percent, Okay, So
if you're rated anywhere between ten percent and one hundred percent,
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then that's when you then you get some type of
monthly compensation. If the VA rates you at zero percent,
that's still a foot in the door. That's saying that
the VA has acknowledged that there was a service connection injury,
but you're not getting paid for it. Now, what that
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does allow is for you to to possibly do a
an appeal or get an increase to get it rated
higher so that you can be compensated for that issue.
So the VA. They rate you between zero percent and
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one hundred percent, but you start getting payment of some
sort at the ten percent level. All right, So eligibility
for VA disability again, this is when you have a
service connect the condition. So someone may ask, well, if
I had a condition prior to going in, and will
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the VA still pay me? And that is quite possible
if the condition was aggravated during your military service. So
the if the V if the military let you in
knowing that you had this particular situation, okay, so they
knew it is documented, they gave you a waiver to
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get in, okay, and that condition was aggravated it while
you were in, then yes, it is quite possible that
you can get paid, be granted VA disability because the
condition was aggravated with the military knowing that you had
it prior to service. So some people may think, oh,
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because it was a pre existing condition, that, oh, well
I'm not going to get anything, and that's not correct.
If it was aggravated, okay, And this is where you
need that medical evidence to say, you know, this was
the military. They knew when I when I joined, then
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I had this condition. However, the condition was made worse
during my military service and so so this is why
it's so important to have that medical documentation. So am
I eligible for VA compensation? Well, you may be eligible
if you meet these conditions. Both of these must be true.
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You have a current illness or injury that affects your
mind or body. And you served on active duty, active
duty for training, or inactive duty training. Okay, so you
have to have a current illness. So that means that
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if I don't have something, I may have had something
five years ago, but if I no longer have it
at the time I file a claim, then more than
likely I'm gonna get denied. So you have to have
a current diagnosis, a current diagnosis. So when you you
might have had this in the military, you say, you
know what, right now, I'm having this situation. I'm having
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the same issue. Therefore, you need a currant diagnosis, all right,
when you file your claim, make sure that it's something
currant diagnosis, that your doctor has your medical record to
say that you have X, Y, and Z, and you
serve don't active duty or active duty for training or
inactive duty training. And at least one of these must
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be true. You got sicker injured while serving in the military.
And can link this condition to your illness or injury.
Let me just state this is that oftentimes veterans, they
would get what's called a nexus letter. What's a nexus letter?
A nexus letter is a nexus or a connection where
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they were a medical profession ties your your your your service,
uh your your service to whatever the injury that you receive,
so they make a medical nexus. A nexus is a
connection saying that X was calls because of military service.
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Now there's a lot of veterans that pay organizations to
write these nexes. Let me just caution you on this.
Does a nexus letter guarantee that you're gonna get approved
by the VA? No? Let me repeat that. Does it
Does it prove or does it mean that just because
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I go get a nexus letter that I'm automatically going
to be approved for VA benefits b VA compensation? No,
it does not. However, it can help. Okay, some le
some of these these letters that veterans are paying for
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twelve hundred dollars of fifteen hundred dollars. If you could
get a nexus free from your doctor, please try to
do that first before you go to a company that
is gonna that you have to pay out of the pocket. Now,
many veterans are successful without having to do a nexus letter.
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All right, if you have proper documentation in your medical file,
if you if you have all your ducks in a
row where you can even name dates and and when
events took place and when you went to the doctor.
If you have all this in your medical file, then
the VA raider can also or that that CNP examiner
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which means that compensation and pension examiner that they often
will send you to prior to the VA making a decision,
can also make a connection with your military service and
whatever the issue that you may at hand have at hand,
if there's proper medical evidence connecting the two, so you
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hopefully you will get a good CNP examiner. Now, some
veterans they go ahead and they pay these high priced
nexus letters, and sometimes they have success with it, but
it's not a guarantee. It's not a guarantee. Now, my
recommendation would be you try the free route before you
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go and pay this, because you would hate to pay
for this type of money. And and and let me
just say this, I had a a veteran service officer
to tell me at the time that oh, you need
to uh uh get a nexus letter, and I was like,
absolutely not. I was not about to pay twelve hundred
dollars for a UH for a UH nexus letter on
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a Maybe that's just me. That's just me, and I'm
glad I didn't. Okay, But for some you, some may say, well,
you know, I think it's worth it. I'm gonna go ahead.
It's just like those that use attorneys. Okay. Some people
feel like they they can get better results while with
an attorney, So it's up to you, UH to decide
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what might work best for you. Another thing is you
had a injury or an illness or injury before you
joined them and survey made it worse, and this is
called a pre service disability claim. Or you had a
disability related to your active duty service that didn't appear
until after you ended your service. So you might say, well,
I've been out ten twenty years, thirty years and I
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never filed. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. Go ahead
and put it in. Okay. If you feel like, hey,
I have something that was not maybe showing up at
the time, but over time, I have these issues and
I believe that they're related to when I was serving
and the military and I've I've been out for so
many years, that doesn't matter. Go ahead and submit. Now,
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let me just say this for those who may be
thinking about putting in a VA disability claim, you could
call the main number and what do What's called an
intend to file an intend to file? What is an
intent to file? That means that I am about and
I am trying to gather all my evidence to submit
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a claim to the VA. Well, an intent to foul.
What it does is is basically like saving the date.
So when you do a VA claim, from the time
that you file the VA claim to the time they
make a decision, if they are ruling your favor, then
you get back paid. So for example, if I submit
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a VA claim in January and they don't make a
decision till November, then guess what I will More than
likely if they rule in my favor, I will be
bad paid to January. Okay. So with the intent to fiul,
what that does is it puts the VA on notice
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that I'm going to file a claim although I haven't
filed it yet. What this does is from the time
that you put the intent of filing, they bad pay
you to that particular date. So if I call on
January to fifteenth, then say, you know what, I'm letting
the VA know that I want to do an intent
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to file and therefore my intent to file. I intend
to file a claim. So that means that you have
one year one year from the date that you contact
the VA to let them know that you plan on
filing the claim. You have to do it within a year. Okay,
in order for that back pay to go back to
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that intent to file date. That means that once you
file the claim, if you, for example, if you fil
January to fifteenth, I mean, I'm sorry, let me take
that back. If you do an intent to file an
intent to file on January to fifteenth, but you don't
actually file to May the fifteen, well even though you
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didn't actually file to May the fifteen, by you putting
in the intent to file on January to fifteen, as
long as you do it within the year, then the VA,
should you get approved, they will backpay you to that
January fifteenth date. All right, that's what that means. So
then intend to file. If you say, okay, well, what's well,
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how do I do the intent to file? You can
call one eight hundred eight to seven one thousand. That's
one eight hundred eighty seven, one thousand, and go through
the prompts zero you press zero, then press one, and
then they'll ask you what branch okay or me I
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forget the orders in Remember number three is for navy, okay,
and so, and you let them know that I want
to do an intent to file okay. So they'll let
you know. But if they don't say it, then you
know that from that time, from that time on, you
have one year to do a claim. Now, if you
let that run out, you gotta start all over again,
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all right. So for some presumptive conditions, for some conditions,
they automatically assume that your service caused your conditions. So
we have uh what's called the Pack Act now and
we we we're not gonna go into all of that.
But some presumptive conditions, they could be chronic, which you
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mean long lasting, and that uh illness appears within a
year after discharge or while you were in the illness
caused by contact with contaminants, toxic chemicals, or hazardous materials,
or i UH illness that was caused during your time
as a pow that's a prisoner of war. So you
have some presumptive illnesses. So the VA is saying when
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you hear uh, when you're hearing about the pack Act
or whatever it's dealing with presumptive illnesses, that they say, Okay, well,
because you served during this particular time frame or at
this particular duty station, or during this particular period. For example,
those that may have served in Vietnam and we're exposed
to agent orange, Uh, they have uh, if I'm correct,
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they have what's called presumptive illnesses. Okay, so certain cancers
is uh. The VA will say, Okay, we're presuming that
if you got this particular cancer, that it was due
if you if you served in Vietnam, it was due
to you being exposed to agent orange. So therefore, we're
gonna presume that you got this because of your time
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in service during by serving over in Vietnam. So we're
gonna automatically presume that this is the case, and we're
gonna grant you whatever. Okay, that's presumptive. Some people that
if they were serving during a certain time or a
certain a certain time frame or in a certain area
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while they were in the service, and you had high pretension,
you wind up having high pretension. Well, they say, well,
you know what, we're gonna presume that because of this
particular time frame they were in the service, or because
they served in this particular area, well, their hypertension is
due to this. So that is a presumptive condition where
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they would rate you from zero to one hundred percent
as a presumption that it was due to your military service.
So this is something that you definitely want to do
your research on. Talk to maybe a veteran service officer,
and let me just say this, when they come to
veteran service officers. We don't have time to go through
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all of this today, but we're gonna be talking about
this more often. Do your research as other veterans about
the if you're if you're thinking about going to a
particular veteran service officer, all of them are not worth
their salt. Okay, let me just say this. You have
some good ones, and I have been blessed to have
one in particular that gave me a lot of information.
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And I thank God because God was the one that
put that veteran service officer in my path, and so
it was things that I didn't know at the time,
and this particular man gave me so much information and
I did what he said, and I thank God because
it was first God and then God had set that
particular Veterans Service officer in my path, and you know,
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and so I thank God for that. And then I've
had one that was like wow, and I just say,
wasn't worth two pennies rubbed together. Okay, So make sure
to do your homework because some they they're in it
for the veterans and they're really really trying to help
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you and they want to see every veteran succeed. And
then you have those as only there for I guess
a check. And because the main thing is you have
to be your own best advocate. You definitely do. You
have to be your own best advocate because you know,
those that are getting paid to work with veterans, they're
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gonna get that money regardless of if the if you
win your case or not. It's just like an attorney,
you know, if you if you have to some of
them that don't go, some of them that charge I
regardless if you win or not. Okay. So the thing
is is that you have to be your own best advocate.
Make sure to do your research, make sure there's so
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much information on for veterans. It's one guy that's on
YouTube and his name is i'm'a try to pull that
up while I'm here uh with you all uh this morning.
If I can find him. His name is Dwayne, and
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I just remember the first name, but his n his
name is Dwayne, and if I he he has uh
a plethora of information that he gives to veterans. And
so if you are a veteran and you want information,
I'm not able to pull it up right now. But
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the thing is is that his name is Dwane and
I can't remember. You might be able to put in
Dwayne and v A let me see, Okay, here it is,
hold on, let me just sit here. Dwayne and I'm
gonna try to put in because I just remember his
first name in Va Va. Let me see here if
I got the name right, I think his first name
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is Dwayne. Okay, yeah, Dwayne Kimball, Dwayne Kimble. And he
has an organization called k M D eighty nine. V
A claims Consulting. He's on YouTube and he gives so
much information for veterans, and he has a lot of videos.
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He used to be a veterans rating specialist, so he's
coming from experience from the inside, Okay, so you definitely
want to listen to him. He has a book or
two out where you can get information regarding various benefits
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that you may be entitled to or how to even
go about doing it. So his name is Dwayne Kimball.
You can find him on YouTube. His his his his
business is k m D eighty nine v A Claims
Consulting and he has a lot of different videos. Also,
it's another one on here. His name is Craig. Let
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me try to find him. His name is Craig and
he's he's pretty hilarious. Let me see. His name is
comeback Craig, Comeback Craig. That's combat CEE on M B
A T. Craig And he gives a lot of information,
valuable information as well regarding for how to win your
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VA claim which you need to know that you don't
need to say, what you need to say, what you
need to have, what you don't need to have. So
these are a couple of real good ones that are
on YouTube that you can follow, listen to and get
a lot of information. Also, if you go to social
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media platforms, there's different veteran groups that's on Facebook that
you can join and just ask questions. Read it. If
you're on Reddit, Reddit has a veteran benefit some page
and a lot of veterans ask questions and then different
veterans they answer back based upon their own experiences. So
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there's so much information that you can have. You don't
want to go into filing without knowing your information. Get
your information. Get as much information as you can. They
also help you with when you after you have fouled
and it's time for a compensation exam, your CNP exam,
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that's compensation and pension. You want to know some things
before you go up in there. Okay, you need to
know about the DBQs. These are questions that that the
C and P examiner is normally going to ask. You
want to be prepared when you go in. One thing
I want to say, because we're running out of time,
But one thing I want to say is before you
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go into an exam, make sure to also have your
your records, your own documentation and some of your records
with you. Because, believe it or not, Uh, there have
been times when I have gone into a C and
P exam and the and the VA had not submitted
everything that that c and P examiner needed in order
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to make a decision. Because before okay, even though the
CNP examiner does not is not the one that rates you,
the VA does pay attention to what that CNP examiner says.
And the CNP examiner is the one that's really gonna say, well,
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it's more likely than not or vice versa in regards
to your particular condition being service connected or not. And
the VA weighs a lot that that CNP exam is
very weighty when it comes to the VA making a
determination as to you getting benefits or not. Therefore, you
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need to be prepared, have your medical records with you
so that if the CNP examiner is missing something, then
you can say, okay, I got you, I got that.
Here it is or whatever case may be. Now, you
have some CNP examiners that's just uh that that are
pro veterans, some are not. Some you know, they are listening.
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Uh they they want to, you know, help if possible,
and so they are listening, look at your records and
so and some is like whatever, okay, so again, but
you want to be prepared. Another thing, and we're gonna
leave with this. Another thing is when you go actually
when you file your exam, when you file for VA compensation,
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don't send in a eight hundred page medical record. Okay.
If you're filing for certain things, go through your medical record,
pull out those those most important things. So whatever pertains
to that particular issue, pull that out, make copies of it,
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submit it so that the VA raider do not have
to read through eight hundred pages because guess what, they're
not gonna do it. They're not gonna do it. So
you want to make it as simple as possible. If
you're going, for example, you're dealing with for example, if
you're dealing with spine issues, then whatever whenever you went
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to the doctor for your spine pull that out, okay,
make copies of it, submit that to the VA, and
you can even make notes so they can easily follow.
And therefore, you want to make it as simple as
possible for that raider, okay, so they can say, okay,
well this is on this particular day, on that particular day.
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You don't want them to have to go through a
whole file because if they have to do that, you
just don't want to take the chance of you getting
a raider that is not going to be willing to
go through that entire medical record. So you be the
one to go through your medical records. Comb through. I
always suggest comb through your medical record. Okay, highlight things,
pull it out. I'm telling you this from experience. All right,
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highlight things, pull it out. Document it. Make it as
easy as possible for that particular raider that may be
going through your file so they can say, okay, spine issues,
David Die diagnosed with this, this happened at this particular
time and everything, And let me just say this. You
may say, well, it's overwhelming or it's a lot of work,
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but the thing is, if you're wanting success, then you
need to be your own best advocate. And this is
even when you have someone working with and for you.
Don't just leave it to them. Make sure that you
check behind them. I can't emphasize that enough. Make sure
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that you check behind them to make sure that they
have done due diligence when it comes to your compensation claim.
All right. I could keep going on and on, but
we are running. We are out of time. We are
out of time, and we're gonna be back on next Thursday.
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So we were having Tuesdays and Thursdays. But there's a
schedule change, so we're having only Thursdays, so every Thursday
you can join in on this vet Terance in Christ
podcast and I pray that it has been a blessing
to you and we're for those who follow us on
It is Finished in Times Ministries where we bring a
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word that you may not have heard as it relates
to the Bible. And in Times. I have mentioned that
we're gonna be ending regular podcasts UH for it is
Finished and Veterans in Christ in November, we're not going
to be on regularly. I'm switching. UH. We're going to
be doing evangelism. We're gonna be hosting Bible uh online
(52:37):
interactive Bible study. If you are wanting to maybe study
the Book of Revelation, we're going to be hosting it.
It is Finished in Times Ministries on our website it
is Finished dot com. That's I t I z finished
dot com And on Friday nights, if you click on
the zoom, it's gonna be via zoom, We're gonna be
(52:57):
hosting H. I'm gonna be only taking a Revelation Bible
study and it's gonna be interactive and so you'll be
able to participate, ask questions. We're gonna give testimonials, encouragement
and discuss the ladies events and things on that. It's
gonna be for an hour every Friday at eight pm
(53:18):
Eastern Standard time, seven pm Central. And this is every Friday,
and again you can go to it is Finish dot com.
That's it I Z Finish dot com and that's every
Friday night, eight pm Eastern Standard time, seven pm Central
where we're going over the Book of Revelation via and
(53:39):
it's gonna be via Zoom. So you can go on
the website, click on the zoom tab and click on
the link that's on there and it will take you
where you can be on the Zoom as we have
our interactive Bible study online. All right, I pray that
today's podcast has been a blessed to you and that you,
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as a veteran in Christ, active duty service members, first responder,
or a service member of someone that is or have served,
that you know that God loves you and he is
there for you. Until next time.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
Thanks for tuning in to Veterans in Christ. We pray
that you found today's podcast informative and we look forward
to being with you again during the next podcast. May
the Lord blessed, and keep you going out and coming in.
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