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Vital Info
 
Below are links to important Veteran information. Just click a link to go there!

Agent Orange Website

EVERYONE CHECK THIS SITE OUT AND READ THROUGH IT THOROUGHLY. IT PERTAINS TO ALL OF US. WE WERE ALL EXPOSED TO THIS AND WERE IN A HIGHLY CONCENTRATED AREA. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE REGISTER FOR THIS.

http://www.lewispublishing.com/orange.htm

http://www.lewispublishing.com/map1.htm

http://www.lewispublishing.com/herbs1.htm

http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/Herbicide/index.htm

NARA

Need a copy of your health records, 201 File, or DD Form 214? These websites are where you can get them.

http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/military_personnel_records.html

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/standard_form_180.pdf

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION - BENEFITS

http://www.va.gov/

This is definitely a good site to visit, it costs you nothing to join and has a lot of good info and facts.

http://www.military.com/

Still Need More Information?

A good point of contact regarding benefits is one of our own:

KENT WILLIAMSON...........................PHONE: 530-347-6632

Subject: Employment Questionaire, VAF 21-4140-1

Please pass to your organizations.

Periodically, the VA sends an employment questionaire to veterans who receive 100% compensation do to unemployability (IU) reasons. The question asked is, "have you worked in the past 12 months."  If the VA does not get this form back, they will stop the IU portion of your compensation.  Often the vet will return the questionaire direct to the Regional Office, bypassing his/her advocate. Sometimes the VA will claim they never received the questionaire... Sometimes it could remain hung up in the VA mail system for weeks, if not months.

If any of your respective members receive this form, please bring it to our office... even if we did not file the original claim. I will prepare the form and forward it under a transmittal giving us an opportunity to trace the questionaire if lost or hung up in the mail. I'll even pay the postage!!

Thanks,

Dave Lanford
CMSgt, USAF (Ret)
Shasta County Veterans Service Officer
2625 Breslauer Way, #4
Redding, CA 96001
Voice: 530-225-5846  Fax: 530-245-6454
Email: dalanford@co.shasta.ca.us

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