I took your advice and took the info. to the local vso. It was news to him. He did fill out the papers to file for me. He still did not seem over joyed about me filing. Making statments like the va will not award ao for thailand, ect.
One thing I do not understand is why you had to work on the fence lines or be a security troop. What about the other troops that worked in the pol, bomb storage, ect. This is poor logic on the va's part. If we look back at the whole ao history it takes a long time for the goverment to get the truth on the table. I think you are right that the door is starting to open for the troops that were in west vn. If you were there file for ao. Let them turn you down. The whole turth will come out.