to start the fight with VA for a disability rating for my knees.
I want to do this about as much as going through dental surgery. I am hoping that someone will be able to offer some guidance in this process.
When I got out of the IANG in 2004, there was a ton of stuff that the VA wanted to do. Lung tests, meet this person in CE dept, go meet so-n-so in the reps dept. Anyway, one of these reps started a claim for disability for 20 different things and thought one of them will stick. 2 yrs later I got annoyed with it and just ignored it. Now, I no longer live in Iowa, haven't been to a VA since 07, and it brings pain from my knees to do anything on my feet. My knee problems started with a fall in basic at South Carolina on a pine tree root. Anyone else here with a similar injury? How is this process supposed to work? Who & where do I start?