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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:01:42 PM EDT
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EEEEEE Fucking dumbass. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:02:43 PM EDT
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I got out in 86.............so I am sure the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE is free to the .gov!!
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:06:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hearing loss is generally tough luck. Tinnitus is a different animal. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I lost hearing when I was in. VA told me tough luck back in 95, never went back. Hearing loss is generally tough luck. Tinnitus is a different animal. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:12:15 PM EDT
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Tinnitus is a 10% disability. If you're a combat vet and say the magic words, you'll get SC virtually automatically. I'm SC for it. This. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:13:34 PM EDT
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whats the magic words for a vn vet?
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:14:45 PM EDT
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whats the magic words for a vn vet? Diabetes, and everything associated with it. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:17:14 PM EDT
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whats the magic words for a vn vet? Same as for any other combat vet Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:17:30 PM EDT
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. They did this in the 90's for pretty much all services. "We made ear plugs available, eat a dick" |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:21:50 PM EDT
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I got nothing for my tinnitus.
I had worse hearing when I came in the Navy than when I retired. Running chainsaws with no hearing protection when I was young was worse than 20+ years on the flight line with double hearing protection.  |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:46:35 PM EDT
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this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. This. this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:47:35 PM EDT
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I got out in 84, and have had zero contact with the mil since then. Will they look back to a previously un-acknowledged injury and rule, or is it dust in the wind? How would one go about it? Go see one of the service organizations and they will basically file for you. I think I went to the AMVETS office at the local VA and they helped me file my claim from day one of retirement. I supplied copies of medical records and they did everything else. It was simple. After a while I received appointments to get checked out by the VA - go to the appointments and after that received a letter stating my ratings for different things claimed. Main point is: Don't file the claim by yourself when there are service organizations with offices right there in the VA who will be glad to help you for free. They do these claims all day long and have worked there for years. They are the experts, let them help you. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:51:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. This. this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. no idea what that is... so no.. i filled out papers,, got an apt . went to the va... left in a fury of rage and haven't been back since.. my ceps and taps class portion that dealt with the VA had all of 4 minutes worth of "fill out papers and see what happens, good luck" this occurred in '05 '06 time frame... |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:53:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So if it shows up 10 years later you should file? I was in armor and have tinnitus 24/7 Something written by the PA or doc where you mentioned to doc. A downward shift in hearing may also be proof, even it your hearing doesn't meet threshold for a rating, it does indicated damage to the ear. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:57:02 PM EDT
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no idea what that is... so no.. i filled out papers,, got an apt . went to the va... left in a fury of rage and haven't been back since.. my ceps and taps class portion that dealt with the VA had all of 4 minutes worth of "fill out papers and see what happens, good luck" this occurred in '05 '06 time frame... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. This. this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. no idea what that is... so no.. i filled out papers,, got an apt . went to the va... left in a fury of rage and haven't been back since.. my ceps and taps class portion that dealt with the VA had all of 4 minutes worth of "fill out papers and see what happens, good luck" this occurred in '05 '06 time frame... Take the advice of the people here. DO NOT deal with the VA directly. There are a whole bunch of Veterans Service Organizations. Go to them and tell them your situation. It's what they do. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 5:58:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I got a 10% rating for it. I'm fairly lucky, as my tinnitus is intermittent, and isn't always there. It still strikes me as odd that tinnitus, which they didn't examine for at all, got rated, while my hearing loss, which is pronounced and was clearly attested to by the audiologist they sent me to, was not. Nearly constant in my left ear, like a 707 throttling up for takeoff, gets even worse when I get tired, or at least seems more noticeable. I have to have background noise to sleep, either radio, TV, AC unit. Mine started from a .357 being fired right next to my ear, right after I took off my headset, dude thought it would be funny. Got worse after nearly 10yrs as a Mortar Maggot, being an Assistant Gunner, kept one ear plug in, left one side out to hear fire commands, FDC data etc. Drop the round and try to cover the ear before the round fired (81mm and 4.2). But I fudged my ETS physical in order to try to get a slot with HHD 5/19SFG, so I can't claim anything. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:02:02 PM EDT
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no idea what that is... so no.. i filled out papers,, got an apt . went to the va... left in a fury of rage and haven't been back since.. my ceps and taps class portion that dealt with the VA had all of 4 minutes worth of "fill out papers and see what happens, good luck" this occurred in '05 '06 time frame... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. This. this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. no idea what that is... so no.. i filled out papers,, got an apt . went to the va... left in a fury of rage and haven't been back since.. my ceps and taps class portion that dealt with the VA had all of 4 minutes worth of "fill out papers and see what happens, good luck" this occurred in '05 '06 time frame... http://www.va.gov/vso/ That is to the directory of them. There are a bunch. My local VA has a hallway with offices for several right there in the VA. On my first day of retirement I went to the VA wandered into the AMVETS office and told them I just retired and could use some help. They pretty much took over from there. It was just that simple. You need to give it another try but pick one of the VSO's and let them take the lead. Good luck. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:29:34 PM EDT
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They did this in the 90's for pretty much all services. "We made ear plugs available, eat a dick" Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. They did this in the 90's for pretty much all services. "We made ear plugs available, eat a dick" Too bad one of the p-ways we had to walk through 30x a day probably had 125db worth of HVAC fan noise. If we had complied with the letter of the regs and stopped to put earpro in everytime before we stepped in and stopped to take it out at the other end, we probably would have ended up in front of the Chief's mess for "being a smartass and wasting time". |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:35:58 PM EDT
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WHAT?
They told me to eat shit, despite losing most of the hearing in my left ear and constant ringing in both. Arty sims to the face will really do wonders for your ears and sinuses. I was medically retired at 60%, but not a bit for hearing issues. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:45:41 PM EDT
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Not by the VA. It's been in the Rating Schedule since 1945 and has always been 10%. Your understanding of your rating not correct. If they did rate you SC 0% then you need to file for "Clear and Unmistakable Error" and get a retroactive check for 10 percent back to 1975. I'm guessing that'd be about $50K if you're not SC for other stuff. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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0% rating for it back in 1975 They'd let me borrow a hearing aid but when I die my widow has to return it to them. Not by the VA. It's been in the Rating Schedule since 1945 and has always been 10%. Your understanding of your rating not correct. If they did rate you SC 0% then you need to file for "Clear and Unmistakable Error" and get a retroactive check for 10 percent back to 1975. I'm guessing that'd be about $50K if you're not SC for other stuff. THIS |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:51:45 PM EDT
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10% on tinnitus. Service connected for hearing loss. I did get hearing aids and the VA picked up the tab. I am thinking of trying to get a higher rating but don't feel like dealing with the VA. My tinnitus is constant and it blows
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Posted: 2/1/2015 9:35:50 PM EDT
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Get online to ebenefits and file a claim. Get a POA (I recommend a GOOD one) and have them do it. Go to your local office and do it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I got out in 84, and have had zero contact with the mil since then. Will they look back to a previously un-acknowledged injury and rule, or is it dust in the wind? How would one go about it? Get online to ebenefits and file a claim. Get a POA (I recommend a GOOD one) and have them do it. Go to your local office and do it. Wow, that site is government as fuck 
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Posted: 2/1/2015 9:43:45 PM EDT
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If you are a combat vet, it is consistent with the rigors of combat service and they have to take your word for it's incurrence. which i am the weirdest part.. my VA Id card has printed under my picture , Service connected disability.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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File a disability claim through your vfw. It's pretty much an instant 10 percent of you were around loud things. Easy. If you are a combat vet, it is consistent with the rigors of combat service and they have to take your word for it's incurrence. which i am the weirdest part.. my VA Id card has printed under my picture , Service connected disability.... Combat service is irrelevant. They can't test for it (at least not up through 1992, not sure about now). I was getting evaluated for high frequency hearing loss which rates 0% because as the doctor put it "You were issued earplugs in Basic Training so it's your own fault". She said it might get better over time, so I asked if the ringing would go away too. I'd never heard of tinnitus, didn't know anything about it. She said "Oh that's different" and was automatically rated 10%. I was rated 20% total for other injuries. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 9:51:20 PM EDT
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WHAT? They told me to eat shit, despite losing most of the hearing in my left ear and constant ringing in both. Arty sims to the face will really do wonders for your ears and sinuses. I was medically retired at 60%, but not a bit for hearing issues. A kid from my high school was a tanker in Desert Storm. He drove over a mine and had complete hearing loss on one ear. He got a 0% rating. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 9:55:36 PM EDT
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I got a 10% disability but no hearing aid. Got tired of the run around and just gave up. Spent 25 years in the navy working the flight deck (AvOrd) or Rifle & Pistol ranges on shore duty. When I first worked the flight deck (1958) we didn't have ear pro, same with the range. F-8 Crusaders weren't loud on burner I guess. .45 cases stuck in your ear were all we had at the range. Got ear plugs for the flight deck in the late 50's and ear's around 1960. I have 90 % loss in my left ear and 50% loss in the right.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 9:59:05 PM EDT
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The .mil says my hearing is good, but my ears are ringing a lot lately. time to make an appt.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:00:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. This. this id have 40% (total) if i went after it ... but was basically told i was a lying piece of shit at the VA hospital during my screening by a muslim doctor 3 months after me EAS (4 months after coming home) fuck them and the VA .. with a dirty fucking horse dick covered in peanut laden shit .. I have only one question, did you use a Veterans Service Organization or did you go to the VA by your lonesome? I am 100% and I used a VSO. I cringe every time I hear a vet tell me they are going to the VA to file when they should be sitting down with a Service Officer and letting them do the work, and fight the fights you have neither the patience nor time to do. Oh, and by law, its a free service. The only one that is uniformly good, IMO, is DAV. The rest, ALG, VFW, MPOH, VVA, etc., are all well meaning know nothings who fuck shit up more than they help. IMO. There are good ones with the other VSO's, but it's a crapshoot. With DAV it isn't a crapshoot. You'll get a good one.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:02:54 PM EDT
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I'm not looking for a paycheck, but at some point I am going to need hearing aids, and if Uncle Army would foot the bill, I would not feel too guilty since I can pin the date, time, and culpability on Drill Sergeant Faision, who made us remove our earpro on the Live fire & Maneuver Range in AIT, so we could " hear my commands". So you haven't been around any loud noise since basic training? |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:06:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Combat service is irrelevant. They can't test for it (at least not up through 1992, not sure about now). I was getting evaluated for high frequency hearing loss which rates 0% because as the doctor put it "You were issued earplugs in Basic Training so it's your own fault". She said it might get better over time, so I asked if the ringing would go away too. I'd never heard of tinnitus, didn't know anything about it. She said "Oh that's different" and was automatically rated 10%. I was rated 20% total for other injuries. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: File a disability claim through your vfw. It's pretty much an instant 10 percent of you were around loud things. Easy. If you are a combat vet, it is consistent with the rigors of combat service and they have to take your word for it's incurrence. which i am the weirdest part.. my VA Id card has printed under my picture , Service connected disability.... Combat service is irrelevant. They can't test for it (at least not up through 1992, not sure about now). I was getting evaluated for high frequency hearing loss which rates 0% because as the doctor put it "You were issued earplugs in Basic Training so it's your own fault". She said it might get better over time, so I asked if the ringing would go away too. I'd never heard of tinnitus, didn't know anything about it. She said "Oh that's different" and was automatically rated 10%. I was rated 20% total for other injuries. Reel that back highspeed. Because you're correcting a lawyer who also rated claims for 7 years. 1. Do you know the legal definition of relevance? (is probative for a material fact at issue, meaning it makes it more or less likely) 2. Do you know that VA must accept a combat veteran's statement of incurrance, even if not in the record, if the disability is consistent with the rigours of combat service? If you know neither 1 or 2, stop running your internet trap because you're putting out bad poop. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:07:40 PM EDT
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I was a jet engine mechanic. Spent years working one foot from running jet engines. I have hearing damage and tinnitus. I went to a hearing specialist to see if they could do anything and they had me send some documentation to the VA.
I got my paperwork back and it said there was no way to prove it happened in the military. Shezam. Oh well I'll pay for my own hearing aids. Background noise (radio, fan) will help at night. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:08:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. The asbestos exposure note in my medical record disappeared as well when I rotated home. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:11:16 PM EDT
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My dil is a va caseworker, the ones that review the record and do the final assignment of disability. She justvtold me tinnitus is a very common scd. There are ww2 vets claiming now for the first time. Do not give up. Especially if you have a copy of your medical records from ad. If it shows a
drop in hearing. Good luck |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:11:52 PM EDT
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Tinnitus sucks, but it is not a disability. You are wrong. Tinnitus blocks my hearing in several frequency ranges and disrupts my hearing comprehension of the spoken word. I have great difficulty understanding of the spoken word in noisy environments. When I am working accidents, and interior operations in structure fires, where you are trying to hear critical radio transmissions over the sound of the fire, water spraying, air rushing into your mask from your air pak, or machinery running, it is a dangerous, life threatening disability. So far it hasn't cost me anything, except pissing the Chief off for ignoring his orders. But one day it could. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:21:53 PM EDT
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So you haven't been around any loud noise since basic training? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not looking for a paycheck, but at some point I am going to need hearing aids, and if Uncle Army would foot the bill, I would not feel too guilty since I can pin the date, time, and culpability on Drill Sergeant Faision, who made us remove our earpro on the Live fire & Maneuver Range in AIT, so we could " hear my commands". So you haven't been around any loud noise since basic training? Lot's, but my hearing was severely damaged in the military, and hearing loss is cumulative. They gave me my early start at 19. I can remember the day, and the week of rocking back and forth in my bunk, holding my ears. ETA; Thanks to all of you who provided good, useful information. This place rocks! 
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:25:57 PM EDT
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Mosul 2003,living next to a 50K gen set when I could try to catch an hour or two rack time. a couple of close IDF hits did not help either SC for tinnitus 10% 0% for hearing loss-loss but not "VA" levels (rigors of military service-I have been an "O" since 1997-not too rigorous military service compared to peacetime SSG medic in an Armor BN) |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:32:02 PM EDT
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Lot's, but my hearing was severely damaged in the military, and hearing loss is cumulative. They gave me my early start at 19. I can remember the day, and the week of rocking back and forth in my bunk, holding my ears. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not looking for a paycheck, but at some point I am going to need hearing aids, and if Uncle Army would foot the bill, I would not feel too guilty since I can pin the date, time, and culpability on Drill Sergeant Faision, who made us remove our earpro on the Live fire & Maneuver Range in AIT, so we could " hear my commands". So you haven't been around any loud noise since basic training? Lot's, but my hearing was severely damaged in the military, and hearing loss is cumulative. They gave me my early start at 19. I can remember the day, and the week of rocking back and forth in my bunk, holding my ears. So your only exposure to loud noise in the military was in basic training? What was your job in the military? Sounds like you were in one of the between tax free vacation reserve components thus have only basic training experience to tie to "service connected" tinnitus. and, yes hearing loss can be cumulative. Good luck with your claim. FWIW, the part in red sounds a bit melodramatic. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:39:36 PM EDT
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For everyone still in, document, document, document. WEAR YOUR EARPRO!!! I used to hate wearing it, but now EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Ever work range support on a Tank Range at night? Ever had your earpro out for a bit? Like when they called the range hot over the radio and forgot to make an announcement for us assholes not in a vehicle? Ever wonder what the main gun on an M1 sound like from off to the side? It sounds like Thor's Hammer hitting the side of your head. I really should file a claim. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:47:59 PM EDT
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Good question. Ever since having a guy fire an M72 LAW off right next to me in an alley I have had it off and on. Now its always on. I never got it looked at because I figured there was nothing they could do for it. The knee I injured on a jump (documented because I was a broke dick because of it for a month) is pretty much always fing with me now too. I cannot run at all and going down stairs kills it.
Last time I went t the VA I was told come back in 6 months. Shit I waited 4 months just to get told come back in 6? I go back and thee are dudes with missing limbs and shit and all I did was fuck up a landing on a runway on a jump. I walked out. Felt like a lowlife trying to get seen while guys are legit permanently crippled. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:48:27 PM EDT
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So your only exposure to loud noise in the military was in basic training? What was your job in the military? Sounds like you were in one of the between tax free vacation reserve components thus have only basic training experience to tie to "service connected" tinnitus. and, yes hearing loss can be cumulative. Good luck with your claim. FWIW, the part in red sounds a bit melodramatic. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not looking for a paycheck, but at some point I am going to need hearing aids, and if Uncle Army would foot the bill, I would not feel too guilty since I can pin the date, time, and culpability on Drill Sergeant Faision, who made us remove our earpro on the Live fire & Maneuver Range in AIT, so we could " hear my commands". So you haven't been around any loud noise since basic training? Lot's, but my hearing was severely damaged in the military, and hearing loss is cumulative. They gave me my early start at 19. I can remember the day, and the week of rocking back and forth in my bunk, holding my ears. So your only exposure to loud noise in the military was in basic training? What was your job in the military? Sounds like you were in one of the between tax free vacation reserve components thus have only basic training experience to tie to "service connected" tinnitus. and, yes hearing loss can be cumulative. Good luck with your claim. FWIW, the part in red sounds a bit melodramatic. Yes, I was a peacetime reservist, 11B, not a combat vet, which is why I have not added a Tank to my avatar, Combat Vets deserve the recognition. I spent 6 years in the reserves, all of it in a Recon Platoon that had 8 M-60s, I was either on one or AG during most of that time. And yes, a lifetime of shooting and 20+ years of working in the Fire Service have certainly added to the damage to my hearing. None of which changes the fact that an idiot Drill Sergeant caused me to sustain sever damage to my ears, which is what I was trying to relate in my " melodramatic " post. I haven't made a claim, and probably won't, I am just gathering intel. But if I get to the point of needing hearing aids, I might. I cannot understand why this concerns you so. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:49:09 PM EDT
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If you're still in get it documented. Put it on any screening forms each and every time you get screened by medical, go to a check up, a physical, a hearing test etc.
Get a consult at audiology and ENT and get a thorough check of your hearing. Get hearing aids while you're still in if you need them. Get audiology to get you a new pair right before you EAS/retire. VA will only get you new ones every 5 years and the clock starts when you register the hearing aides with the VA, not when you got them. There's 5 or 6 specific frequencies that they look at your decibel loss on your last audio gram as compared to your original audio gram you got upon entry into the service. Make sure you have this original audio gram. Make a copy of it now (in fact your entire medical record). Ensure you get an audiogram as part of your final physical. This is the one VA will use for comparison (along with one you will take from an independent Audioligist the VA will send you to as part of the claim process) You can look up the hearing loss rating information on line in the VA's manual. You can have bad hearing loss, but if it isn't in the freqs in the VA rating manual with the corresponding decibel loss, you're not going to get rated for it. This is why many with documented hearing loss get little or no rating. As with any service connected medical issues, documentation is a must and don't wait to file a claim after you are discharged. Do it prior to EAS/retirement. <------SEVERE service connected hearing loss. I'm effectively deaf without my hearing aides. Wear your hearing protection people. What you lose never comes back and it's cumulative over time and will sneak up on you. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:53:14 PM EDT
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I cannot understand why this concerns you so. It doesn't concern me. More amusing than anything. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 10:55:03 PM EDT
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A kid from my high school was a tanker in Desert Storm. He drove over a mine and had complete hearing loss on one ear. He got a 0% rating. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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WHAT? They told me to eat shit, despite losing most of the hearing in my left ear and constant ringing in both. Arty sims to the face will really do wonders for your ears and sinuses. I was medically retired at 60%, but not a bit for hearing issues. A kid from my high school was a tanker in Desert Storm. He drove over a mine and had complete hearing loss on one ear. He got a 0% rating. Jesus. The military is fucking broken. I got 30% for two crushed vertebrae and 30% for a severed MCL that's retracted up into my thigh. If I got that much, how the hell can a guy go deaf in an ear and get nothing? |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:00:13 PM EDT
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Military Tinnitus Sufferers Holy shit, there's military grade tinnitus now??? I knew some warped motherfucker would weaponize it eventually. 
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:07:10 PM EDT
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Tinnitus and hearing aids don't go together I don't believe. Hearing loss is what has to be proven and it has to be linked to military service and it is partly done by your military job description. I personally didn't wear ear pro overseas in the early days and didn't suffer any noticeable affects. You lost your hearing after one exercise? The va will probably not take that to seriously. The tinnitus thing however is almost a gimme in a lot of cases. Again, a lot of it depends on your job description and how long ago it was that you got off active duty.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:15:35 PM EDT
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Military Tinnitus Sufferers Holy shit, there's military grade tinnitus now??? I knew some warped motherfucker would weaponize it eventually. lol |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:17:57 PM EDT
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Jesus. The military is fucking broken. I got 30% for two crushed vertebrae and 30% for a severed MCL that's retracted up into my thigh. If I got that much, how the hell can a guy go deaf in an ear and get nothing? I have a buddy who is 80%. Spent all of Desert Storm in Turkey. How did he get it? The doc or whoever was Dominican, as was my buddy. The guy gave him the rating and my buddy didn't ask for or bitch about shit. Told him, Dominicans take care of each other. Hell the dude didn't even get the shits over there, |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:19:35 PM EDT
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I got out in 84, and have had zero contact with the mil since then. Will they look back to a previously un-acknowledged injury and rule, or is it dust in the wind? How would one go about it? Get online to ebenefits and file a claim. Get a POA (I recommend a GOOD one) and have them do it. Go to your local office and do it. Wow, that site is government as fuck Oh, it is fucked all right. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:26:34 PM EDT
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Can you be recommended for MEB with hearing impaired SC hearing loss? If so, what percentage of base pay is awarded?
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:32:18 PM EDT
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10% service connected hearing loss. 20 Years on the flight line destroyed my hearing. Documented tinnitus but the 10% was for loss of high pitch hearing. The tinnitus is a pain in the ass but I've sorta got used to it by now.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:38:29 PM EDT
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You get used to it. Falling asleep with ambient noise or being physically exhausted helps tremendously. Not the end of the world.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:39:03 PM EDT
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Too bad one of the p-ways we had to walk through 30x a day probably had 125db worth of HVAC fan noise. If we had complied with the letter of the regs and stopped to put earpro in everytime before we stepped in and stopped to take it out at the other end, we probably would have ended up in front of the Chief's mess for "being a smartass and wasting time". Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tag, and good fucking luck. The Navy essentially told me to take a hike even though I had serious, documented hearing loss at the time of my EAS. They did this in the 90's for pretty much all services. "We made ear plugs available, eat a dick" Too bad one of the p-ways we had to walk through 30x a day probably had 125db worth of HVAC fan noise. If we had complied with the letter of the regs and stopped to put earpro in everytime before we stepped in and stopped to take it out at the other end, we probably would have ended up in front of the Chief's mess for "being a smartass and wasting time". You ain't lying... There is a fuckton of noise onboard a ship -- I got to work in a shop directly under where they ran the COD for half an hour before it took off and after it landed two to five times a day every fucking day for six months -- that was fun. Fan rooms, ECW pump rooms, 400hz hum in radar transmitter rooms... In the last three years, I've noticed a significant decrease in my ability to hear, especially human voice frequencies. |
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