Right. I say this with great respect, but an awful lot of veterans who apply and are denied don't even bother trying again. Many of them just say, “Well, I tried, and they wouldn't do it.”
Many of them have supplied the medical evidence at the first stage. I've spoken to many of the lawyers who are advocating on behalf of these veterans, because DVA supplies them. The evidence they have in many cases I've seen is no different from what they've already been given. There's no additional information. They have two doctors who say they have this particular condition, and everything else, and there's nothing new to say.
I guess my problem is that if two medical doctors--and this is consistent now, because I advise all the veterans to do this--state and agree that a particular individual has this problem, and then VRAB denies them, how can VRAB not apply the benefit of the doubt when medical evidence already says that the individual has these concerns?
Can you walk me through that process? If you're an officer, and you see the medical evidence from the doctors, and yet you still deny them, how does that happen?