Jim;
I am us army retired. I served on the DMZ north of freedom bridge from 1970-1971 and have Diabetes and glaucoma. I filed my claim feb 27, 2011 and it still has not been approved. I was told by VA glaucoma would be secondary. I wonder what is taking soo long?
Reply:
Your claim isn't yet a year old. I advise veterans today that most claims will take 2 years to process, start to finish. Most of those claims will be denied and require an appeal to get it done correctly. That will add another 2 years.
You can read more about this at
http://www.vawatchdog.org/the-va-claims-backlog.html
and
http://www.vawatchdog.org/how-to-track-your-claim.html
There's a good bit of information about agent orange and the DMZ here
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/korea.asp