Most service members file after discharge and spend a year trying to prove something that was never written down. The window that matters opens long before your DD-214. Between 180 and 90 days out you can file a BDD claim, short for Benefits Delivery at Discharge, and VA will run your exams while you are still in. Before that, at the twelve month mark, the job is documentation: getting every condition into your service treatment records while you still have access to military medicine.

 

Sea Daddy is a free set of tools for that window, built so they take taps instead of paperwork. A timeline checklist that remembers what you have ticked. A logbook you fill in three taps at a time, with nothing to type. A statement builder that reads those entries, counts them, and writes the sheet you attach to VA Form 21-4138. And a C&P exam page that prints your own numbers in the words to use in that room.

 

The reason it works that way is simple. Veterans are trained to suck it up, so most of us do not know what is wrong with us and do not want to sit down and fill in a form about it. Every page here shows you an answer to check rather than a blank box to fill.

 

There is nothing to buy and no account to create. If you are being asked to pay a percentage of your back pay to file an initial claim, read 38 CFR 14.636 before you sign anything. Accredited representation through a VSO, claims agent, or attorney is already free.