Well in a stunning turnabout of
situations and scenarios, the
DAV club has begun to align themselves
in public comment periods with
the advocacy of the Fort McClellan
Veterans. Not a minute too soon,
I might add, but better late than
never.

Taking their cues from a handful
of crucial points we made on our
own submitted statement at the
June 12th hearing on Presumption
legislation, DAV has begun to zoom
in and echo back our very own
frontrunner points and frankly,
we are so glad of it.

For those of you DunderHeads who
haven't been paying attention very
closely, the games which are coming
from DOD and VA regarding Presumptive
statusing in disability claims go
something like this:


#1. Refuse to notify any of the veterans
nationally who were involved in any
contamination

#2 Do limited and partial studies on
only those few who have been found
so they can falsely create an
"estimated projection" of what the
population numbers are

#3 Then after the rigging is in place,
shut out the rest of the totality of the
exposure population, and then turn
around and proudly proclaim before
the news media that no such population
of exposure victims exist.



The Agent Orange boys know all about
what this is, as they have been there,
and done that.

But this is once again the culmination
and demonstration of bunglings-past
for the VSO's who are only focused
on pushing through groups inside
the wholly archaic, obsolete, and
caveman-line VA Presumptive system
and then walking away without ever
bothering to follow through and
FIX THE DAM SYSTEM !! HELLO! What's
up with you Slackers??

It's a new day, and there are enough
of us out here now who can think
and speak for ourselves on these
deeper issues and the June 12th hearing,
in some ways, was a coming together
of separate but unified forces who
were all saying the same thing
FINALLY !! We have put it
out there for all of Congress, and
for all of the public to know about
including any onlookers from the
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
and the Center for Disease Control.

Let me also carry all of this just
one step further for ya: the Institute
of Medicine is NOT the villan here!!

Their involvements are controlled
by the world of "contracts" and they
are paid their budget money by CONTRACT
and it is the CONTRACT which they
are required to operate under since
those are the specifications and
work orders which the entire operation
marches too.

Some of you men Veterans are former
construction men, you DO all know
about the importance and rituals involved
with CONTRACTS and SPECIFICATIONS,
now don't ya?

When IOM signs to take on a review,
they can only work with what they
are given. Obviously if either the
DOD or the VA is tweeking or withholding
population numbers somewhere, this
often sits beyond their inclusion
reach for assessments. There is
nobody more frustrated by this
process than THEY ARE !!! They
feel as screwed as the Veterans
do at times, make no mistake about
it as I have been in the room with
them.

They do what they can to get it right,
based on what they are given.

The IOM does really find some ingenious
ways to compile data and information
so they can make the best possible
case for the Veterans. But sometimes
it is the Veterans themselves who
are the problem too. Believe it, and
GEEZ, don't I know it!!

The DAV has come to know now, the
true importance of including veteran
NOTIFICATION in the legislation of
the future for exposure Presumptive
efforts. This statement below, entered
by Kerry Baker of the DAV, clearly
is in perfect alignment with the
other statement filed by me for
the Fort McClellan Veterans. The
more that we can get to all sing
the same song, then the faster the
legislation will start going through
in our favor as Presumptive cases
of the future.

To that end, I give to you a key
excerpt below, of the DAV statement
from the June 12th hearing at the
House, showing how they have changed
their strategies and have begun
lining up with the leadership of
the Fort McClellan Veterans.

For the rest of you VSO LunkHeads,
grow a brain and start getting on
the same page as well because it is
this entire NOTIFICATION point which
is allowing the VA and DOD to stage
their faker and phoney charades.

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Start of DAV Excerpted Statement


H.R. 5954


Congressman Thompson introduced H.R. 5954 in May 2008. If enacted, this bill would provide veterans with presumptions of service connection for purposes of benefits under laws administered by the Secretary for diseases associated with service in the Armed Forces and exposure to biological, chemical, or other toxic agents as part of Project 112. This bill is one that all disabled veterans who were unknowingly harmed by military experiments and wrongfully denied disability benefits to which they were legally entitled should celebrate.

This legislation will only be successful if the Department of Defense (DOD) releases the names of all participants of these military experiments, many of which may not even be aware of their involvement. For this reason, the DAV is pleased that this bill requires the DOD to release the information vital for the success of this bill. Without such a requirement, those affected by these unthinkable experiments will continue to be locked out of a system otherwise designed to provide the help this bill delivers.

Since 2003, the DOD has stopped actively searching for individuals who were potentially exposed to chemical or biological substances during Project 112 tests, but have not provided any basis for that decision. In 2003, the DOD reported it had identified 5,842 servicemembers as having been potentially exposed during Project 112, but also indicated that it would cease searching for additional individuals. In 2004, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the DOD did not exhaust all possible sources of information.

Since June 2003, however, non-DOD sources—including the Institute of Medicine—have identified approximately 600 additional names of individuals who were potentially exposed during Project 112. This fully supports the proposition that the DOD’s actions were completely arbitrary. Until these issues are addressed, veterans will remain unaware of their potential exposure, and this monumental injustice of experimentation on U.S. servicemembers will continue to go unanswered. Congress must mandate that the DOD live up to its obligation of identifying every single veteran that may have had even the smallest potential of exposure. This bill is a large step in the right direction and the DAV supports it.

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End of DAV Excerpt


I want all of you to understand that
this whole issue of "veterans notification"
that they served in contamination zone
is far more important than what any
of you have originally thought. This
is the very rock of scamming that
the VA and DOD hides under, they have
done it before on other populations
who were real and legitimate, and
unless we take this on in a single
unified voice to start including
"veterans notification" in the presumptive
legislation, then the agencies will
likely continue their charades and
hoaxes.

These agencies are dominated by
MEN --- and they do NOT see themselves
as a human relations operation not
one IOTA. So you all have to club
them over the heads with this concept
because they are the LunkHead
brains who have to be defeated in
these legislative pursuits.

The military will NEVER be an
OSHA kind of workplace so let's get
real. But we can still INSIST that
humane and real world practices
goes into the pot as they go
about setting up their maneuvers.
This much we can do for our future
troops and ourselves.