Just a note: back in ’69 when I got out, it was the ARMY that purged all my medical records before sending them to St. Louis for “safe keeping”. Years later, all my treatments, surgeries, and physical problems were mysteriously gone when VA got my file from the Pentagon. The Pentagon is doing the SAME THING to veterans today, so they better have kept copies of all their medical visit and care while in the service.
My experience, and my son’s has been that VA IS trying to help the vets, while the Pentagon and the MIC continue to give them the shaft.
Just a note: back in ’69 when I got out, it was the ARMY that purged all my medical records before sending them to St. Louis for “safe keeping”. Years later, all my treatments, surgeries, and physical problems were mysteriously gone when VA got my file from the Pentagon. The Pentagon is doing the SAME THING to veterans today, so they better have kept copies of all their medical visit and care while in the service.
My experience, and my son’s has been that VA IS trying to help the vets, while the Pentagon and the MIC continue to give them the shaft.