Did you use the CAEv2 plugs?

Ordnance Corps.

I know why I went, but I still don’t know why we went.

THIS! I was fortunately enough to be hand carried from office to office by my VA Advocate when I was enrolling in the VA. That system is a labyrinth, and they are your guide.

Ok, so audiograms have the y,-axis inverted to show hearing loss as a downward graph. 0dB refers to the calibrated baseline volume. Each non-zero value states how much volume must be added from baseline to hear the pure tone frequency.

Edit: u/eahle_565 asked a good question. Upvote curiosity, you pessimists bastards! Everyone who hated school or believes they’re not “math people” had a teacher just like you! 🖕

You know, for all their failings, I have excellent healthcare. We had a saying when I was still in the service: “Where you’re going is the best place you can go, where you are is the worst place you can be, and where you came from never really was that bad”. It’s about duty stations, but speaks generally to the notion of contentment and hindsight.

Since my disability rating totals more than a specified threshold, my healthcare is free for me forever, service-connected or not. I have socialized healthcare. And it’s awesome.

I can walk in to see my doctor unannounced. I can phone in or email prescriptions I never pay for. I have not known a medical bill, copay, or premium since 2010 and never will again.

The VA has its flaws, and had made good progress since the influx of OIF/OEF veterans filled its facilities with youthful anger. The mental health care has dramatically improved. I won’t sing their praises more than that. I just don’t feel I’m in a position to really complain about the VA when medical debt can ruin your life.

They absolutely said that. Even after I appealed. But they only ever used their own audiogram. My appeal did increase my overall rating to 100%, so I didn’t bother pursuing it with the VA anymore.

My dude, KEEP YOUR RECORDS! You can appeal a VA rating decision within a year of it’s posted date. Compensation will backdate to the date of initial rating instead of the date of appeal if your rating is increased.

Also, it’s an absolutely pain in ye’ ol’ donk-oh-donk, but go through the process of setting up your access to ebenefits and iPERMS. You can access a lot of records there the vVA won’t bother to include in your case

Yeah, I was given an H-3 hearing profile shortly after returning from deployment, but never given a follow up because I was being chaptered. All of my VA numbers seemed suspiciously close to the cutoff threshold for compensation.

I’m not saying the VA lied, but I’m not saying I trust them either.

My hearing didn’t recover. My hearing loss claim was denied, is all

Data was pulled from documents in my military 201 file, Army medical records, and VA examination documents.

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