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Q511: Does service-connectedness apply to any condition that you had when you left service, whether or not it was caused by that service?
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A1: Service Connected Claim. 1. In service event. 2. Current diagnosis. No diagnosis No Service connection. 3. NEXUS: (link - cause and effect connection.) or a doctors statement. "Is as least likely as not due to Military Service. Contact an Accredited VSO with the VFW, Am Legion, DAV, Am Vets or another Vets Svc Organization. Take your DD-214 (discharge) and they will answer all your questions. (GH) 9/2/20
A2: Your question does not have enough information to give a correct answer. The answer is YES and/or NO. If it was a congenital issue, then the answer is no. Please email me with additional details and then I can give you a better answer. (RJ) 9/2/20
A3: Yes. (RS) 9/2/20
A4: Yes and no. I could not get checked out at a va hospital until 26 yrs after I got out of the service. (LB) 9/2/20
A5: Only on Kidney. (WM) 9/2/20
A6: It is VERY Simple to arrive at your question.. You First MUST understand two (or three words):
1. Service-Connection....Meaning that something (a Disease, Injury OR an Event) occurred to you WHILE you were on Active Duty. That Disease, Injury or Event now 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 (or whatever years later) has come back to affect your well being. In your Military Records there must be some type record that backs up ONE of those three (Disease, Injury OR Event). Example: During Basic were you injured? Did you seek medical aid from Medic, Doctor or Hospital? If you did, there should be a written record, a written statement from a doctor, or some type of documentation from the hospital. This would ALL be in your 201 File. A Good Prime example would be the Awarding of a Purple Heart: Injury or wound visible, signed by a Medic, documented by a doctor at a hospital. Now in the present one of those three is affecting you so you go and see a doctor. The doctor concludes that ONE of those Three is INDEED connected to your Military Service. That there is your Service-Connection.
2. Nexus: What this word means is: A connection or series of connections or series of connections linking two or more things..Or in a simple form---a connection between time in service and the present. In order to obtain Service-Connection you need to fit somewhere in the above.
Take Care, My Brother. Be Persistent! (RA) 9/3/20
A7: My condition was service connected and dates back to 1973. (SL) 9/3/20