I'm a VA employee and I've been saying this all year. Thank you for laying it out so beautifully so I no longer have to present my argument like Charlie Day in front of a cork board covered in string.
TB; One rule of thumb over the years for the St. Louis area is we are approximately 1% of the US population, so a reasonable guess is the VA has/is eliminating 670 VA positions in the St. Louis metro area. And, the 1973 NPRC great fire (in Overland) destroyed or damaged between 15 million and 18 million veterans military service records leading to untold thousands? of claims being denied by VA because of a lack of "evidence". Will the all electronic all the time VA records switch (that includes the destruction of paper military and VA records) bring the same kind of untold results over the next 50+ years? for veterans and their families? I hope I am wrong, BUT I fear I am not.
I'm a VA employee and I've been saying this all year. Thank you for laying it out so beautifully so I no longer have to present my argument like Charlie Day in front of a cork board covered in string.
You are welcome, please share. We all need to get the facts out there. They are playing games only they can win.
TB; One rule of thumb over the years for the St. Louis area is we are approximately 1% of the US population, so a reasonable guess is the VA has/is eliminating 670 VA positions in the St. Louis metro area. And, the 1973 NPRC great fire (in Overland) destroyed or damaged between 15 million and 18 million veterans military service records leading to untold thousands? of claims being denied by VA because of a lack of "evidence". Will the all electronic all the time VA records switch (that includes the destruction of paper military and VA records) bring the same kind of untold results over the next 50+ years? for veterans and their families? I hope I am wrong, BUT I fear I am not.