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Ron
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I was recently denied on my first application to get CRSC benefits for my VA rating (100%) for PTSD. They sent me the denial letter saying that I didn't provide them with enough evidence to indicate that I obtained the PTSD from combat or a combat related event.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but if I got PTSD from my tour in Iraq, isn't that proof enough that it was combat related!? I have all over my VA documents/records notes indicated that I got PTSD from my tour in Iraq.
Also it says on my VA rating documents that my PTSD is combat related.
I obviously appealed this and sent them actual psychologist notes from Iraq indicating that I have PTSD, and then also notes from after I got back from Iraq, indicating that I couldn't attend specific training because of my PTSD that was incurred in Iraq, and so forth.
Does anyone else have any further advice or insight on this? Why would I have gotten denied int he first place? Does PTSD have to be associated with ONE specific event? Or can it be okay just to associate it with my entire tour there? I am in a unique situation, in that my PTSD was related to me being in the medical field and was incurred because I worked as a surgical technician and ended up seeing many people die in front of me on the surgical table, and also due to all the death/dying and also mangled bodies, faces and so forth that I dealt with.
There is only so much death that one can deal with. In addition to that, I worked in the morgue for a couple of months as well. That all said, although I didn't develop the PTSD while fighting/engaging the enemy, it was combat-related as I was in Iraq and was due to combat as I was treating soldiers/civilians who came in with combat-related injuries.
Lastly, we did take enemy fire on the base as well, so its not like I wasn't in a combat zone...or at risk at all as people did get injured/die on the post.
Can anyone please advise?
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Ron
Moderator
7 September 2019]
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I was recently denied on my first application to get CRSC benefits for my VA rating (100%) for PTSD. They sent me the denial letter saying that I didn't provide them with enough evidence to indicate that I obtained the PTSD from combat or a combat related event.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but if I got PTSD from my tour in Iraq, isn't that proof enough that it was combat related!? I have all over my VA documents/records notes indicated that I got PTSD from my tour in Iraq.
Also it says on my VA rating documents that my PTSD is combat related.
I obviously appealed this and sent them actual psychologist notes from Iraq indicating that I have PTSD, and then also notes from after I got back from Iraq, indicating that I couldn't attend specific training because of my PTSD that was incurred in Iraq, and so forth.
Does anyone else have any further advice or insight on this? Why would I have gotten denied int he first place? Does PTSD have to be associated with ONE specific event? Or can it be okay just to associate it with my entire tour there? I am in a unique situation, in that my PTSD was related to me being in the medical field and was incurred because I worked as a surgical technician and ended up seeing many people die in front of me on the surgical table, and also due to all the death/dying and also mangled bodies, faces and so forth that I dealt with.
There is only so much death that one can deal with. In addition to that, I worked in the morgue for a couple of months as well. That all said, although I didn't develop the PTSD while fighting/engaging the enemy, it was combat-related as I was in Iraq and was due to combat as I was treating soldiers/civilians who came in with combat-related injuries.
Lastly, we did take enemy fire on the base as well, so its not like I wasn't in a combat zone...or at risk at all as people did get injured/die on the post.
Can anyone please advise?