True," we get calls oftentimes from veterans who are still on active duty and they say, "you know, I would like to file a claim. I'm going to be separating from the military soon, and I wish I had a blow horn to get in touch with all people who are in active duty so I could tell them how critical it is that when you're on active duty, to follow these claims. While you're on active duty, because when you file a claim when you're still on active duty, you're not a veteran on a technicality to the day you separate. But you can file for disability for your period of active duty while you're still on active duty. And when you file, the mere filing of a claim is an incident on active duty, stating you have something wrong with you. So, in order to be service-connected with anything, you need to be able to link something back to active duty, either a diagnosis or an event. Well, the mere filing of a disability claim is an event. For example, if a veteran files a pre-discharge claim for tinnitus, he's saying, 'I have ringing in the ears and I'm still on active duty.' So, the event's already established, the mere filing establishes the event, which is a complaint for ringing in the ears while on active duty. Usually, those examinations, it's the VA's goal to schedule those examinations before they're even discharged. So, if the veteran is diagnosed with anything at these pre-discharge examinations, the diagnosis started on active duty. And there you have it, you have an in-service event, which is a complaint and a filing for the claim. And then the diagnosis itself is also made on active duty. Very powerful, and people don't appreciate this....
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