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Twitch is right. Until your very final separation date, you're still on active duty, and still earning 2.5 days of leave per month. So if you approach terminal leave with 30 saved days, you'll accumulate 2.5 days during that month of leave, and should end up getting about 32 days. During...

FWIW, all, my PEBLO just told me today that she received notice that Providence is backlogged again, so we may see wait times increase again. My own case just got sent back to Providence, during the Secretary of the Air Force appeal phase, because the SECAF raised two conditions of mine to...

Locke, what the DAV or any other VSO is going to do is, first look through your records, and they may find additional conditions for you to claim. I could see how they would want your records also just to represent you, so that they can help you make the best argument for you to get the most...

Yes, it is unlikely that they will be made Category 1 Unfitting conditions. However, you can still add them to your list of claimed conditions for the VA to rate. Same thing happened to me--I was unsure whether to claim PTSD, and my VA rep advised me to hold off until I was sure. Sure...

FWIW, I've now been in the IDES process for a year and a half. My appeal is still awaiting the SECAF, where it's been for the last 6 months and no end in sight. (SECAF was estimated at 6 weeks) After that, I still have the VA reconsideration appeal, which could also be anywhere between 6...

Private message sent. As for the SSDI, won't you need more than just a statement of being unfit? You'll have to show total debilitation and inability to work, so won't you need the VA proposed ratings as a minimum? Since those are only proposed, though, I'm wondering if you might need the...

Sal, just so you have all the info, it seems that each service, and even each base handles things differently. Even then, it's up to your commander what he approves. In my case, I have VERY specifically and repeatedly clarified with my PEBLO and commander, that I will be permitted to take all...

I see this has been raised from the past. Some good info in there, but realize that this document applied to the legacy system, not the current IDES where the VA and AF are integrated.

Hey, I'm also at JBER. In the appeals process. Let me know if I can help.

Razor, PM me as well if you like. I just had my FPEB and am now in the SECAF appeal. I'm also a pilot, a year ahead of you, although my med condition is different, and my appeal contentions are different than yours in part because I concede that I'm unfit for service. As much as I'd like to...

I think the AJ is generally a good idea, in that if you can have some "easy" appeals approved by correspondence, everybody wins. The service members gets what they're contending, the board and counsel don't have to take the time to prepare for and conduct a formal board, the service member...

Are you talking a normal post-service VA claim? I've been in the IDES at JBER for more than a year now, and all our stuff goes to Rhode Island for the VA part.

Thanks for your reply, guys. Buscktr, your info with the reg citations were particularly helpful. Bottom line for me is, they're not letting me retain any use/lose, and after a year of being restricted from leave (for the reasons buckstr posts above) I'm now being made to take 19 days of leave...

I have been in the IDES process for over a year, and for the FULL 2013 fiscal year. As instructed by the PEBLO office, and backed up by the DAWG lead doctor, I have been restricted from taking leave. Therefore, I have 19 days of use/lose leave. I have repeatedly asked and confirmed with the...

Ah, so what I'm getting out of that, there, is that YES, patients will "always" have all of their "mental" conditions lumped into one condition to be rated, regardless of source, timing, or severity. Seems kind of silly, doesn't it? That someone may have chronic schizophrenia, severe PTSD from...

Hmm.... I could understand that, if they were for the same issue. For example, if someone got blown up with an IED in Iraq, and had PTSD and Adjustment Disorder from that event, then rating them separately could be double dipping. However, as I said in my case, the VA examiner himself...

Yes, this all is rather silly. The IPEB found me unfit, which the FPEB has confirmed. I am conceding the unfit determination, and this is headed towards medical retirement. There is virtually zero chance that the SECAF would override EVERYBODY and return me to service. Even though my...

Great question. The docs I received from the IPEB are almost non-existent in terms of providing any justification as far as why the VA chose to rate my condition analogous to the condition that they did, and how they arrived at the particular rating. They only stated that "a higher rating...

Well this might be an interesting wrinkle. I talked to our base temp PEBLO today, and got a copy of the Air Force memo on this issue. Comparing this to the Army memo, it looks like the two services are taking two different approaches. Whereas it seems the Army paused the IDES process for...

I'm wondering if someone can help me figure out how this new Adjustment Disorder news applies to me. I'm currently in a Secretary of the Air Force appeal of the IDES. Back in Nov 2012, my VA examiner diagnosed me with combat-related PTSD, and adjustment disorder for an unrelated issue. (my...