FIELD GUIDES FOR THE VA CLAIMS PROCESS
Know the process before it costs you.
Most VA claims are lost on process, not merit: a missed deadline, the wrong review lane, a C&P exam nobody prepared for. Ruck Ready is a set of short, plain-English guides written by a Veteran who is also a VA-accredited attorney, so you can run your own claim and get it right once.
Guides from $19. Every individualized tool is free. Never a cut of your back pay.
FREE · 10 SECONDS
How long do you have?
The date is near the top of the first page of your decision letter.
Three guides. One course. No fluff.
Each guide is the length of a long magazine article and ends with a checklist you can print.
GUIDE 01
The Decision Letter Field Manual
How to read a VA rating decision the way an attorney does: what each section means, the seven errors that show up most, and the one date that controls everything.
$29 one time
What's inside →GUIDE 02
The Review Options Playbook
Higher-Level Review, Supplemental Claim or the Board: how to pick, what each one can and cannot fix, and how to keep your effective date through all of it.
$29 one time
What's inside →GUIDE 03
C&P Exam Prep
What the examiner is scoring, how to describe a bad day without exaggerating, and what to do the week after.
$19 one time
What's inside →
THE COURSE
Ruck Up: Your VA Claim From Decision to Appeal
All three guides plus a six-part video course and every update for a year. Built for the Veteran who wants to run the claim personally and get it right once.
The tools that touch your claim are free.
We charge for teaching, never for the parts that depend on your records. That line is deliberate: before VA has decided your claim, nobody may charge you to help with it, and we don't.
Deadline check
Enter the date on your decision letter and see how long you have, and which review keeps your effective date.
Open →Free decision check
Upload a decision letter. See each issue we find, how strong it looks, and your earliest deadline. No card.
Open →Intent to File guide
Lock in your effective date for a year while you gather evidence. Free, and you file it yourself.
Open →First-claim guide
No decision yet? Federal law bars fees for help with a first claim, so this one is free and always will be.
Open →
WHO WRITES THIS
Infantry first. Lawyer second. Still a Veteran.
Gabe served in the Army infantry in Afghanistan and came home to a VA process he had to learn one confusing letter at a time. He went to law school, served as an Army JAG, became a VA-accredited attorney, and has spent years helping fellow Veterans with VA claims and appeals. Ruck Ready is the manual he wishes someone had handed him.
Ruck Ready is published by ClaimScope LLC, a Veteran-owned Iowa company he founded with Erick, a fellow infantry combat Veteran with a law degree.
- Written by a VA-accredited attorney, not a content farm
- Every rule cited to the statute, regulation or VA manual
- Updated when VA changes the rules; course buyers get updates for a year
- Plain English, checklists, and no upsell to a percentage of your back pay
Guides are general education, not legal advice or representation, and buying one does not create an attorney-client relationship. Attorney fees for VA claims are allowed only after VA has issued a decision and only under a written agreement; if you want a lawyer, ClaimScopeLaw, a separate law firm, offers a free call.
Want someone to look at your letter?
The guides teach you to read it yourself. If you'd rather have it read for you, the free decision check shows what we find in minutes, and a free call with a VA-accredited attorney is one tap from the result.
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