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The founder story

22 years.

How an Ohio Air National Guard Combat Communications veteran filed his first VA claim 22 years after Kuwait — and won 100% P&T in under 9 months.

after Kuwait before he filed
22 yearsafter Kuwait before he filed
filed Aug 2025 → decided Mar 2026
9 monthsfiled Aug 2025 → decided Mar 2026
on private records alone
100% P&Ton private records alone
Dr. Mike Roberts, founder — deployed in desert uniform
Then · deployed
Dr. Mike Roberts, founder of VA Claim Commander
Now · founder
  1. Age 17Enlists, Ohio Air National GuardCombat Communications — still in high school
  2. 2002–03Deploys to KuwaitBefore the Iraq War starts. His last day of active duty.
  3. 22 yearsNever files a claimNobody ever told him he couldThe gap
  4. Aug 2025Files the first claimOn private medical records — no service treatment records
  5. Mar 2026100% Permanent & TotalUnder 9 months, start to decision

That's how they win — not by denying you, but by you never asking.

I joined the Ohio Air National Guard at 17, still in high school. Combat Communications. I deployed to Kuwait before the Iraq War started. That was my last day of active duty.

Twenty-two years later, a coworker mentioned a VA medical appointment. I didn't even know I could file. Maybe you don't either.

The win didn't come all at once. The door opened with a burn-pit presumptive — chronic sinusitis, from Kuwait. A direct service connection or two followed. But what actually carried me to 100% was the secondary claims — the conditions that grew out of the ones already connected. Nobody explains that strategy to you. Now it's built into this product.

Getting there taught me two expensive lessons.

  • $800

    A group exam-prep call

    Every veteran, every condition, one script. Your story is your evidence. It has to be yours. A script isn’t yours.

  • Paid

    Nexus letters with fabricated citations

    I only caught it because I checked every reference myself. A made-up citation doesn’t just weaken a claim; it hands the rater a reason to doubt everything else in your file. I rebuilt the references on my own.

So I built it.

What I actually needed, nobody sold: documents built to the legal standard, grounded in my real records, mapped to the rating criteria for my conditions — and the gaps found before the rater found them.

Every document this product generates was in my own winning claim package.

And because I know exactly what it feels like to pay $800 for a script, your first claim is free to build — every document, read in full, before you pay anything. An account takes an email — and there are no upsell calls, ever.

I can't promise you a rating — nobody honestly can, and the ones who do are the ones to walk away from. Documentation is the part you can control, so we control it completely.

Disabled doesn't mean missing a limb. It means your service cost you something — your sleep, your hearing, your back — and you earned the right to be properly rated for it.

The close

It is never too late. Twenty-two years is proof.

— Dr. Mike Roberts, founder · 100% P&T

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