From time to time I do go back to
VSO's just to see if they have done
anything to improve the clumsies
of their situations and to see
if something has changed enough
to where I can actually use them
without risking and sacrificing the
quality of my pursuits.

Just recently, one such meeting
was done, and I was handed the
entire structure of the American
Legion in Washington DC, touted
as their HQ main office.

After all that, it has now taken
me 3 full days in email exchanges
with them just to get a simple answer
to a handful of questions to them.

The American Legion has become a
shadow-bureacracy of sorts
to the VA itself. You should consider
this before you either member them
or donate money for the purpose of
claims assistance. Donating money
for their other causes may still be
okay.

What goes along with shadow-bureacracies
also includes the stunts, charades, bungling,
DUH! Factor, handing off to another to
another to another to another to another
(Yawn!) which so typically goes with the
VA itself. So all should consider this
when contemplating memberships and donations.

Here is the structure of their DC
offices and YOU decide:

Receptionist

Administrative Services (8 positions)

Economic (2 positions)

Legislative (5 positions)

National Security-Foreign Relations
(4 positions)

Media Relations (2 positions)

Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation (8 positions)

Field Service (3 positions)

Review and Correction Boards (3 positions)

Board of Veterans Appeals (5 positions)

Regional Office (4 positions)

Philadelphia Insurance Office (2 positions)

St. Paul Debt Management Office (2 positions)

Walter Reed Program (1 position)

Pentagon Public Evaluation Board (1 position)


Well, you get the idea.

Yes instead of doing all of your walls
of silence, hoop-jumping, rat-chasing,
excuse-factory, and misreading of prominent
documents such as Commission Reports
at the VA agency, Why Bother --- you
can just cut out the middle man and
go directly to the American Legion !!

The VSO's have become a new problem
to Veterans and is no longer the solution.
With no real QUALIFICATIONS imposed
on hiring practices ( not that there is
at the VA either ), and with no Oversight
destination to measure out the Quality
of what they are cranking out to sick
and incapacitated Veterans everywhere,
there is nothing but RUMOR and their
own FAKE publicity via a slick looking
magazine for the public to rely upon
as their own internal SPIN on what is
or is not happening inside their arena.

Few people know, for instance, that
Veterans are REJECTED for assistance at
times --- as the Fort McClellan Veterans
were in their pursuit for equal access
to VA recognition as chemical exposure
medical patients. If you have all been
under the misquided "assumption" they
were helping and assisting every single
Veterans case and every single Veterans
class of patients, then NEWS FLASH!
it isn't so. It seems that the
VSO's are real big on helping men
Veterans and haven't really done SQUAT
for us girls.

Whether or not the Legion wakes up from
it's bureacratic COMA in this
next effort I'm making to get them on
board in a new functional project remains
to be seen. But for sure, we are nearing
a time where we just aren't going to take
it anymore and to start filing papers
to have them blocked from certain venues
for discriminatory practices if it all
doesn't change.

I have never met a Veteran who has
asked for and demanded that a new
layer of excuses, wall of silence, and
hoop-jumping be inserted in the middle
of all that already exists at the VA.
Frankly, I have just never come across
that out here ---- have YOU ??