Over 20 years active duty and having to MED board, need a reliable VSO in Germany.

I planned on retiring, but my building profiles have started a MEB. I have a PEBLO, and the MSC and legal is based out of Ft. Bragg
while I am here in Germany (less than ideal for sure). This process is pretty new to me, and as a SFC, many presume I just know how it goes….well I don’t. The scary element is many of my medical documents are missing prior to 2005 when the Army went full electronic and 2 of my combat deployments would have had notes. I fortunately DO NOT have a purple heart from Afghanistan or Iraq. So I went to medical records and they have over a 1000 pages of info after 20 years of service but not early stuff, the PEBLO team has realized that is missing.

I haven’t taken my VA c&p exams yet, but they are likely In the next 2 weeks.

Could anyone recommend a VSO that is in the same time zone or possibly Kaiserslautern Germany area as I am genuinely overwhelmed, as I
obviously in-processed and out-processed many installations, and this was never discovered. PEBLO team did a records trace, but yielded nothing of the earlier medical records. I do not know exactly what is missing?

While legal and MSC are helpful, the time zone differences almost nullify that.

Any POCs knowledgeable in this are of Germany would genuinely mean a lot.
Many thank you’s in advance.
 
Hello @Corvette1140

I found these VSOs in Germany (email was recommended):

Country
Name & Address
E-mail
Phone
Germany (VFW)​
Mark Kistner (DSO)
Attn: Dpt of Eur Service Officer CMR 28810 Box 336R, APO AE 09624​

0160.938.83341​
Germany (VFW)​
Eddie Guevara (ADSO)
VFW Post 9342 Ansbach, Germany
APO AE 09250​
n/a​

Update on Overseas Military Service Coordinators​


Due to COVID-19, Overseas Military Services Coordinators are currently providing support to Veterans, service members, and dependents living overseas at the e-mail addresses below. Please use the e-mail address for the installation nearest to your residence. The OMSCs are monitoring the e-mails daily, and providing FaceTime and phone interviews where possible for those who wish to arrange these services.


Installations
OMSC E-mail
Hours of OMSC Active Monitoring
Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Wiesbaden, Baumholder, Sembach, Spangdahlem, Belgium, Netherlands​

11:00am to 12:30am (Europe)​
Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Wiesbaden, Baumholder, Sembach, Spangdahlem, Belgium, Netherlands​
11:00am to 12:30am (Europe)​
Stuttgart, Vilseck, Grafenwoehr, Ansbach, Garmish, Bavaria Region​
11:00am to 12:30am (Europe)​
Email was recommended.​

Good luck,
Ron
 
You're welcome. BTW, I ran a half-marathon in K-town in 1988. Unusual course, ran up a mountain first and then flat after we came back down.

Ron
 
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