I have just returned from my April trip
to Washington DC and have hand delivered
our official press release and legislative
announcement summary to the Associated
Press and the Washington Post as
we now hunker down for the big announcement
from Capitol Hill that the Bill has
been submitted.

I am also picking up news from workers
at the VAMC here in Albany NY that some
of you have been arbitrarily showing
up outside the process to have yourselves
examined to the bewilderment of the
caregivers.

To set this up as our pre-launch starting
point as we wait on the public release
of our Fort McClellan legislation, it's
time to review some facts in this situation
before any more of you bang your heads
against the VA proverbial walls with
nothing to show for it in the end.

First, the VA system at large, has no
information at all on the Fort McClellan
Alabama contamination zone. This will
NOT go public until our legislation
Bill is actually submitted on Capitol
Hill. That is exactly why we are chasing
this legislation so stop calling them,
stop chasing exams, stop, stop, and stop.
They know NOTHING of this Fort McClellan
issue until the legislation is activated
from Capitol Hill even though the VA
Central Office and VA Secretary's Office
is more than aware of it and is not
issuing any all points bulletins on it
to the state level VAMC's.

The VA has a full and complete LOCKOUT
of the Fort McClellan issue until such
time that it is publicly announced via
the Bill sponsors office and the House
Veterans Affairs Committee Office. This
is what the VA does in contaminaton cases,
and NO the VA is NOT your friend
so get a clue.

Secondly, while the residential citizens
of Anniston, Alabama CAN go for a PCB
determining blood test, this same test
does NOT apply to most of the Veterans.
So if the misinformed local VA Hositals
try to send you on a rat-chasing maneuver
for an entire series of PPM / PPB blood
measuring tests, tell them to "save it".
Parts Per Million or Parts Per Billion
levels wears off over time in the human
body if you have been effectively removed
from the hot source for several years.
We are NOT using this as the proofing
mechanism for the Fort McClellan Veterans
legislation.

If you have not lived in Anniston, Alabama
or Fort McClellan, Alabama for 20 years
or more, then it is a safe bet that all
the blood tests in the world will NOT
yield a PPB reading in your blood levels.
Even todays Anniston civilian who has
survived the worst of it in the peak
contamination years, are only at this
time registering small and very slight
levels of PPB readings in their blood
tests. So save yourself anguish and despair
and eliminate the unnecessary pursuit of
PPM / PPB bloods if this looks like your
situation.

Then finally, about your VA disability
Comp and Pen claims. Some of you are big
Know It Alls and think you are going to
head off the process and short cut your
way through. We are NOT chasing this
Presumptive Statusing out here at the
great inconvenience and expense to our
own lives just because we are bored
and have nothing else to do.

The VA Comp and Pen, in most and the majority
of cases, will NOT grant you service connected
statusing for the Fort McClellan contamination
exposures UNTIL SUCH TIME that our legislation
Bill is announced from Capitol Hill. After
that, some VARO's may give it up with
a few ratings, but usually the VA digs
in with opposition until the Bill is actually
signed into law by the White House.
We can count on ONE HAND just how
many cases have actually gotten through
with a Comp and Pen rating from Fort
McClellan contamination exposure, and
from what we know, those cases were
already tied to the system and had
mostly rigged cases outside of what the
rest of us all normally have to endure
for an ordeal in this system.

Do NOT look for any relief in sight
until our legislation Bill is publicly
announced. That will start the process
of the VA Secretary's Office issuing
small releases to state level VAMC
Hospitals, and it will give practitioners
an on line frame of reference to use.

Of course, this is all the very REASON
why we have doggedly pursued this process
for 5 straight years into a successful
conclusion. Too many of you have refused
to hunker down with us for the sake of
the GROUP INTEREST of unjamming this
system for the sake of ALL Fort McClellan
Veterans and that is the ultimate goal
that the few of us have dared to take
on. So now maybe the lightbulb will come
on in some of your pea-sized brains
about why the GROUP INTEREST is the prevailing
authority in this legislative project.

You all need to get a clue and understand
that VA medical patients are abused
and tortured into getting an act of Congress
before they are forcibly recognized at the
VA agency as prospective disability filing
cases. That legislation is the entire ballgame
in this arena. Without the legislation, there
is nothing but a full, complete, and heavily
organized LOCKOUT by the VA in your cases.
Get over it because it's a fact of life
until they chage the Presumptive system.


We are the only official VA patient
group that Washington is talking to on
this Fort McClellan contamination zone
matter, so DO NOT take your information
from the crackpot rumor mill elsewhere
on this Internet. There are more Fakers
and Phonies on this internet trying to
stick their big, dumb, misinformed noses
into this Fort McClellan project than
Bayer has Aspirin!!! Keep it tuned right
here because when our Bill is announced,
we will have the next phase of the
fast track information about what to
do and where to go on your claims
development.


Good luck and stay in touch.

REPLY TO JAN:

When I give you the HR number for the
Fort McClellan legislation, then THAT
will be the Bill that I am talking about.

We are on standby for that announcement.
We have nothing to do with "agent orange".

Does this mean we are included in H.R. 2254
or do we get the royal screw again.

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