The NVRA Blog

Just found this video of what they did at Alkalai Lake. This is sickening.

NVRA Chairman Stuart A. Steinberg, who has championed veterans rights tirelessly and selflessly for decades, has been nominated as a 2016 CNN Hero. READ THE NOMINATION | VISIT THE CNN WEBSITE View Video The video below is part of the NVRA documentary project and offers compelling evidence that Mr. Steinberg is more than deserving of the CNN Hero Award.  

In the past few months, I have won several VA benefits claims cases that have been some of the best wins I’ve had in the past 12 years since I retired and started again volunteering as a service officer for Vietnam Veterans of America. The first one was for an 85-year-old veteran who served in Korea and Vietnam. He has … Read More

Victoria Pelham, The Desert Sun 8:17 a.m. PDT March 9, 2015 Coachella Valley veterans, mingling at the American Legion meeting site on a weekday afternoon, proudly tout their branch of military service in caps and off-the-cuff comments and say they would serve their country all over again if they could. They have fought and kept watch all over the world, … Read More

First, it was two VA psychologists who had a secret web site that claimed that many veterans and active duty soldiers were either lying or exaggerating about their PTSD and TBI symptoms, and that they were malingerers. They also posited that the reasonable doubt rule should be eliminated, essentially implying that any doubt should be resolved against the veteran. Now, … Read More

If you do 20 years and retire, either normally or for medical reasons, you are eligible for either Combat Related Special Compensation (CRSC), or Concurrent Receipt of Disability Pay (CRDP), once you receive VA disability compensation. Usually, unless all of the disabilities are combat-related, retirees take CRDP. If you get CRSC, you get two checks from the Defense Finance and … Read More

As it stands now, the Army Combat Action Badge (CAB) is not retroactively awarded to December 7, 1941, as every other combat badge has been.This is an issue affecting millions of veterans. I have been working on this since about 2009, when the Senate first screwed us on this. The House unanimously approves the retroactive award and then the Senate, … Read More

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