Combat Craig

On YouTube · Combat Craig and a team that includes former VA personnel, including ‘RaterX,’ a former VA rater

One of the biggest peer-educator channels in VA claims, with roughly 191,000 subscribers and more than a thousand videos demystifying the disability process. The teaching is plain-spoken and process-first: C&P exams, supplemental claims, Higher-Level Review, combined-ratings math, and the traps that cap a rating. The channel was still posting new claims videos in 2026.

Why we carry them. For many veterans this is the first classroom they ever find, and its ratings-math and appeals explainers are the peer canon the section should start from.

Carried with eyes open: a peer educator, not a VA-accredited representative — and his operation sells a paid Boot Camp and nexus-letter services. Watch the teaching; check any filing decision against the regulation itself and, where it counts, an accredited representative.

Essential viewing

VA Claims - Veterans: Watch This BEFORE Your C&P Exam #combatcraig #vadisability #veterans #military · 2026-07-29

A pre-exam briefing on what to expect and how to prepare before walking into a C&P exam.

VA Claim Denied? Missing Evidence? File a Supplemental Claim! · 2025-07-07

Walks through using a Supplemental Claim with new evidence after a denial for missing evidence.

VA Hamster Wheel: Duty to Assist Errors & Higher Level Reviews · 2025-06-17

Explains duty-to-assist errors and how Higher-Level Review fits the VA’s repeat-denial ‘hamster wheel.’

VA Claims - VA Disability. Mastering the Combined Ratings Table · 2025-09-18

Teaches VA math: how individual ratings combine through the Combined Ratings Table instead of simply adding up.

VA Disability Pyramiding: The Rule That Limits YOUR VA Disability Benefits! · 2025-04-30

Explains pyramiding — the rule barring two ratings for the same symptom — and how it can cap a combined rating.

What Does it Take to Receive a 70% Mental Health Rating from the VA? · 2024-02-22

Breaks down the symptom and impairment criteria VA uses for a 70% mental-health rating.

Summaries are ours. The work is theirs. The Combat Craig channel →