Recent content by Laika

I was medically retired last year for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) with an overall rating of 60%. I am not near a VA hospital or military base, so I've been seeing a local civilian doctor and cardiologist using Tricare. I was recently referred to a cardiac electrophysiologist because of a...

I'm no expert, but I assume they can take longer than being stateside due to logistics and communication delays. For example, instead of going to a local VA hospital for C&P exams, they had to send me TDY to Sacramento for a week (which of course involves scheduling with aerovac office, hotel...

Yes, they gave me 30% for the heart despite it being genetic. That being said, I wasn't diagnosed until 2015 after 11 years in the military. Although I had significant family history, no symptoms had presented until last year and a echocardiogram, heart MRI plus a genetic test gave the docs what...

I received my VA letter in the mail yesterday and I'm supposed to get paid on 1 Nov, so the process is finally all over for me. Good luck to everyone, and I hope my timeline will help anyone going through the same process.

I got mine the same day too. I was surprised, I expected it to take longer.

Its been a while, but to update my case... I asked my PEBLO about a rank determination a few times before I left Japan for PTDY/terminal but her response was always that she e-mailed my PEB case manager and never got a response. So I ended up leaving country without an answer. While on terminal...

Any Air Force guys or gals have any experience with getting a promotion line number right before medical retirement? I just found out that I made MSgt, but my line number is pretty high so I will be retired by the time it comes up. I called my MPF and they directed me to the AFPC Total Force...

I'm Air Force, and am in the same position right now. I just found out that I made MSgt the other day, and called our centralized Air Force Personnel Center to find out what they will do. They informed me that I would need to notify my PEBLO, and they would route the info up and get my...

Mine did end up coming from my PEBLO in an e-mail, but they also posted in PRDA the next day but not vMPF.

Thank you very much!

Okay, got 'em! Retirement date 28 Sep 16. With my terminal and househunting, I should be out of here next month. Time to start out-processing!

Still waiting on my orders. 2 weeks since I got my ratings, and today my PEBLO tells me that AFPC never received signed paperwork so they had to submit it again today.

I was wondering how long AFPC has been taking everyone lately for retirement orders. I signed for my ratings on 29 Apr so I'm trying to gauge when I can expect orders to drop. Also, how do you typically get them? E-mailed from the PEBLO? Do they also show up in vMPF and PDRA like normal orders do?