This book was written to help Veterans make their way through themaze of VA regulations, written and unwritten, that prevents themfrom attaining service connection. The VA, like any governmentalentity, is difficult to work with. They do everything on paper and havenot advanced to electronic files yet. Only 12-15 percent of VA claims areapproved due to red tape and a misunderstanding of what is required. VA prefers you use Veterans Service Organizations to file your claims. I feel Veterans are not very well served by this method and advocate a do it yourself approach. This works well until you get to the Courtof Appeals for Veterans Claims(CAVC) at that point, you would be bestserved by having a good attorney and nothing less.