Hello all! I have posted a few times, but I think I have stumbled upon something egregious. I have read through hundreds of post, and looked at how my Airmen were treated the past 17 years along with myself. There seems to be a huge uptick in members being treated poorly and punished administratively when medical issues start to arise. When medical issues start to arise, of course someone is going to be unreliable, sick, and not at work as much. We are forced to go to 20 or 30 doctor's appointments to prove our illness, and document everything else that is wrong with us. This week I had 4 doctors appointments spread over two days, and next week I have a an appointment Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Leadership looks at this as we are trying to get out of work. Then we start having issues at work. For example I have vertigo severely, along with asthma, anxiety, and major IBS issues. I am in the bathroom for at least 2 hours a day, dizzy and spinning at least 2 times a week where it wipes me out for the rest of the day, and cant run like I used to.
This long winded "whining and complaining" has a point. What protections are there for us active duty members. There are tons of veteran protections, reasonable accommodations, and other avenues to protect people once retired or in the civilian work force, but what protects us while active. We are being led to believe we are crap bags and lazy due to the issues we are having, and almost all of them are linked in someway to deployments, head traumas while working on equipment, torturous hazing and mentally challenging work environments, and other situations. They broke us, and then they want to treat us like trash when we cannot perform the mission. The process for medically separating takes anywhere from 1 to 2 years (we all know that this process begins way before the actually PUEBLO and Med board).
If there are not protections for us active duty guys, how do we raise this flag so someone of importance listens. Our members would be a lot less messed up if they were able to be taken care of at the appropriate times. Collecting disability at the end is only part of the problem. Being treated like a monster for years is causing many more issues. Dragging out the timelines and decisions for medical is not only stopping people from being paid, it is mentally and physically beating them down during the entire time they are going through the process. What is everyone else's thoughts? I am hoping I am posting this in the right section.
(I want to caveat, my leadership has been in the top 90 percent of helping me. I have only had one person who does not recognize my limitations. When he tried to cause issues, my First Shirt stuck up for me and it seems as though he had my chain of command get my back. My issue is I sit at work doing nothing most the day because I either cant think, I am dizzy, or I need to use the bathroom.)
This long winded "whining and complaining" has a point. What protections are there for us active duty members. There are tons of veteran protections, reasonable accommodations, and other avenues to protect people once retired or in the civilian work force, but what protects us while active. We are being led to believe we are crap bags and lazy due to the issues we are having, and almost all of them are linked in someway to deployments, head traumas while working on equipment, torturous hazing and mentally challenging work environments, and other situations. They broke us, and then they want to treat us like trash when we cannot perform the mission. The process for medically separating takes anywhere from 1 to 2 years (we all know that this process begins way before the actually PUEBLO and Med board).
If there are not protections for us active duty guys, how do we raise this flag so someone of importance listens. Our members would be a lot less messed up if they were able to be taken care of at the appropriate times. Collecting disability at the end is only part of the problem. Being treated like a monster for years is causing many more issues. Dragging out the timelines and decisions for medical is not only stopping people from being paid, it is mentally and physically beating them down during the entire time they are going through the process. What is everyone else's thoughts? I am hoping I am posting this in the right section.
(I want to caveat, my leadership has been in the top 90 percent of helping me. I have only had one person who does not recognize my limitations. When he tried to cause issues, my First Shirt stuck up for me and it seems as though he had my chain of command get my back. My issue is I sit at work doing nothing most the day because I either cant think, I am dizzy, or I need to use the bathroom.)
