robert51

i tried this and its not a law and has no teeth... i was told i would be in line with women, minority , etc etc and was 5 in line to get state jobs which in 3 years i got one for under 200 dollars

me also i have been taking it now for 10 years but the dose is up to 850 a day i sleep fine its getting up sometimes that is hard...

If your looking for anything about dau tieng the 1st air cav 229th B and D was there in 69 70 and then we moved i forget some base with lots of red mud,,, there is a web site 229 th air cav with some info and reports

This is a little off topic but i too gained and gained and soon i ballooned up to 300 lbs . at 6 foot tall ... well as i live in the Philippines i finally took a big step and had a vertical sleeve done they make your stomac smaller and now after 9 months i am down to 226 and seem to be leveling off but i feel great... i heard you can get this done in the VA for free its a hassle but its free i paid for my own but over here it was only 6500 dollars.. best money i spent..

i dont think there is a ( this mos or this mos ) its just assumed i was told by the doctors at the VA that more often then not this type of mos often had more then its share of seeing the ugly's , I thought one of my nightmares was unique till i found out its common.. On a UH 1 helicopter the gunner sits on the right side in the back , with the doors open to allow for the guns ,and as the bird fly's with the right side out due to the rotation of the blades and tail rooter its a natural or i should say un natural thing happens when your hauling fallen troops from the field especially when there were no body bags but only pancho liners. the gunner would be drenched in loose fluids on the trip and unless you knew it was coming would often be covered head to toe and you learned to keep your mouth shut.Thank GOD there were no mirrors to look at yourself or many a gunner would of most likely jumped in flight at the sight of himself

my son went to school under chapter 35 and unknow to me was dropping classes and one year after he stopped going to school they sent a letter wanting their money back... he is now in the navy and trying to work something out...

« Return to Article Click to Print Military Update: Thousands due stop-loss back pay still must apply By Tom Philpott 2010-01-10 16:46:55 About 185,000 veterans who were forced by wartime “stop-loss” orders to serve on active duty after enlistment contracts had expired, or past their approved retirement dates, are due a retroactive special payment of $500 for each extra month they served. But these veterans must apply by Oct. 21 to get the extra money set aside in appreciation for the extra time they had to serve. Payments could total $640 million. Through December, only about 15,000 veterans and current members had applied for “Retroactive Stop-Loss Special Pay.” The average lump-sum payment made to eligible Army veterans so far is $4,500, said Army spokeswoman Jill Mueller. That suggests an average stop-loss period of nine months, considerably longer than was needed by any other service. The universe of veterans eligible for retroactive stop loss pay was narrowed Dec. 19 by as much as 10 percent. On that date, at the Army’s urging, Congress ended eligibility for retroactive stop-loss pay for veterans who, while in stop-loss status, had re-enlisted or extended their service obligation voluntarily and received a re-enlistment or extension bonus. The narrowing of eligibility “is viewed as a correction to the program,” said Samuel Retherford, director of officer and enlisted personnel management for the Office of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Army officials had advised that some soldiers with deployment orders in hand intentionally delayed re-enlistment while stateside because bonuses paid there are taxed. Knowing they would be deployed anyway under a stop loss order to preserve unit readiness, these soldiers waited to re-enlistment because bonuses earned in a combat area are exempt from federal taxes. The Army told Congress last spring that these soldiers shouldn’t be eligible for the retroactive stop loss payment nearing congressional approval. But language to limit payments this way was left out of the Fiscal Year 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act in June. As of Oct. 21, the services began processing retroactive stop loss payment applications. Congress corrected the oversight in the appropriations bill signed last month, but not before at least a few hundred veteran soldiers and some airman who had re-enlisted while in stop-loss status got retroactive stop-loss pay. Marine Corps and Navy officials had anticipated the change in law and, by policy, never allowed retroactive payments to go to members who had re-enlisted or extended their service obligations while under stop loss. The Army and Air Force had suspended processing retroactive stop-loss pay applications from Dec. 19 until Jan. 5 when Defense officials verified the policy change with revised rules. They will not recoup any payments already made. But Retherford said the narrowing of eligibility was justified. “Members who voluntarily reenlisted with bonuses after a period of stop loss most likely did not intend to separate,” he explained. The revised law allows stop loss back payments to go only to “those former service members whose lives were most disrupted” because their involuntary extension truly “delayed their plans to separate.” Army is the only service that still uses stop loss. As of Dec. 1, about 8700 soldiers were serving in stop-loss status, derisively referred to as a “back door” draft. The stop-loss breakdown was 4723 active duty soldiers, 3694 Army National Guard members and 279 Army Reserve personnel. Starting this month, the Army no longer expects to have to deploy units using stop loss orders. Army Reserve and Guard units began mobilizing without stop loss last August and September. The last units with stop-loss soldiers should return from combat theaters in 2011. The Air Force and Navy used stop-loss authority only for brief periods after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and stopped by 2002. The Marine Corps hasn’t used stop-loss since 2003. But these services’ smaller populations of stop-loss veterans still are eligible for the retroactive payments. Congress first authorized stop loss special pay of $500 a month to serving stop-loss members in 2008. Payments began last March and are authorized through June 30, 2011. The pool of eligible veterans for the back pay program is much bigger, as large as 120,000 for the Army alone. But only 10,600 veteran soldiers have submitted claims to date. The window closes Oct. 21, 2010. The Marine Corps has received 2,200 claims out of a pool of 9,600 eligible veterans. It has made 529 payments to date. The Air Force has approved 1,300 retroactive stop loss payments; 300 claims are pending. But as many as 39,000 former and current airmen could be eligible. The pool of sailors under stop-loss orders was estimated at 9,300 back in 2002. But the actual impact on time served was light. Navy officials believe only 250 or so sailors will be eligible for retroactive stop-loss pay. Service officials are urging former stop-loss veterans to file claims and readers of this column should help spread the word. Marine Corps spokeswoman Maj. Shawn Haney said the Corps has written to former stop-loss Marines at their last known address but could use help reaching others. “These Marines rate this money, and we want them to have it,” she said.

i was told the same thing ,, something to the affect you have to be married 10 years and after 10 years of 100% PT it does not matter how you go ... but before it has to be as a result of your SC

I think its because he is in the Philippines unless he was born here the va figures he 99% can not get a job so he came here to retire and to apply for IU here is a very hard road .. better to go to the US and apply

If you can breath they figure you can work but what you need to do is not try to figure out how you can not do something but to know you have to be able to work 40 hour a week ,, my doctor said ... ok sure he can do very low level jobs like door greeter , folding laundry etc but he can not do them full time... at best 4 hours a day so i was granted based on not being able to work full time ..

VA Disability Compensation Update 05: Approximately 3 million veterans...about 2 million of whom are under age 65...receive compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for their serviceconnected disabilities. The amount is based on a rating of an impairment’s effect on a veteran’s earnings capacity, on average; disability ratings range from zero to 100%. Additional allowances are paid to veterans whose disabilities are rated 30% or higher and who have dependent spouses, children, or parents. Veterans with disabilities may also qualify for cash payments from other sources, including workers’ compensation; private disability insurance; means-tested program benefits, such as Supplemental Security Income; and, for veterans under 65, the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program. About 146,000 veterans who receive disability compensation from VA also receive DI payments. When Social Security beneficiaries are eligible for disability benefits from more than one source, ceilings usually limit combined disability benefits from public sources to 80% of a recipient’s average pre-disability earnings. Those DI payments...after any reduction...are adjusted periodically to reflect changes in the cost of living and in national average wages. Veterans’ compensation payments for disabilities are not considered for that purpose, however, and thus do not apply toward limits. That same exclusion applies to means-tested benefits and to some benefits that are based on public employment. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has provided to Congress an option to reduce government spending that would limit disability compensation for veterans who receive VA disability benefits and DI payments. The option would reduce VA’s disability compensation by the amount of the DI benefit. Applying that change to current and future recipients of veterans’ compensation would affect an estimated 153,000 recipients in 2010, saving almost $1.8 billion that year and approximately $9.6 billion between 2010 and 2014. Applying the change only to veterans who are newly awarded compensation payments or DI payments would affect an estimated 3,000 recipients in 2010, saving about $40 million in outlays that year and about $1.1 billion through 2014. A rationale in favor of this option is that it would eliminate duplicate public compensation for a single disability. An argument against it is that the change would subject veterans’ disability benefits to a form of means-testing (VA benefits are considered entitlements). Moreover, to the extent that this option applied to current DI recipients, some disabled veterans would have their income reduced. [source: CBO Budget Options Vol 2 Aug 09 ++]

i just had a cp and i have been 70 IU PT now for almost 5 years it was only a 45 min talk and more to see how i was responding to meds and my semi monthly visits to a IMO .. when i was leaving the doctor said well maybe i will see you again next year...

I would wait till all the info is in... We had a guy in our company that went AWOL in nam after it was told to him that he was going to be killed by 4 other guys who he told on for selling Hard drugs to the troops in his company... Talk about a rock and a hard place... his choice was go on patrol with high as a kite guys .. Or have 4 after to kill you in the field... one of the guys he told on was his Sergeant seems the LT confronted the Sergeant with what he was told.... Now there is a real rocket scientist

it took me 4 1/2 years to go from 10% to 100% IU PT and that included 2 IMO they make you work very hard for it..

I feel funny when a new guy will PM me and say i see you have an award for PTSD well i applied and wanted to ask you what do you say? do you look the doctor in the eye? do you act like your mad? should i tell the doctor about drinking or doing drugs? should i act crazy ?how long is the meeting? After its over how long till i can get paid? I really dont know how to address these questions as i think if you have it you have it and the doctor will know and if you dont have PTSD your a lucky person because it sure does not make living an easier..I can only wonder how people without PTSD live i used to watch other fathers to get hints on how i should act around my own children. I put a lock on my bedroom door not to keep others out but to keep me in so i would not wander around in a sleeply drift and hurt one of the children.. We have done many things over the years to adapt to being the way we are .. Why would anyone want to have PTSD ? With only so many years in a life its a bummer to have to live them with PTSD ..

i see what your saying... if the drug gives you side effects stop taking it .. or tough it out... but some seem happy to have side effects because they can file another claim its like a hobby...

I have not received anything but then I was screwed out of the last one too... I filed as married with two children but my wife does not use a SSN she has an ITIN number so because of that we received 0000 nothing for her or me or the children. It was then the government found that many active duty guys are married to foreigner wives so they changed the rules for them and they received their checks but for me well I had to accept 000 or try to fight the government again .. I am to tired to fight them again....

This quote says it all.. i received 70% and IU in 2004 and i was told by the doctor to wait a year and then ask for PT and i did and it was granted ,, i think the quickest way to get reduced if you do is to stop getting treatment after you get the award i am still going to the doctor 2 times a month now for 8 years.. and plan on going for ever as it gives me an outlet someone i can unload to without backlash The first benefit is health care. PTSD is by far the easiest mental health diagnosis to have declared "service-connected," a designation that often means the difference between little or no care and broad, lasting health coverage. Service connection also makes a vet eligible for monthly disability payments of up to $3,000. That link may explain why most veterans getting PTSD treatment from the VA report worsening symptoms until they are designated 100 percent disabled at which point their use of VA mental health services drops by 82 percent. It may also help explain why, although the risk of PTSD from a traumatic event drops as time passes, the number of Vietnam veterans applying for PTSD disability almost doubled between 1999 and 2004, driving total PTSD disability payments to more than $4 billion annually.

I was almost called in for an exam also ... almost because the VA office thought i was not going to my doctor anymore and i wasn’t i was going to a private doctor and as soon as they received the report the CP was stopped... I think they the VA check and think well now he is 100% and before he became 100% he came in twice a month, to see the doctor year after year and now nothing ... hummmm maybe he is self cured... never stop seeing a doctor and never stop taking your meds..

i hired an attorney and he told me what to do .. and what i needed and suggested a doctor and i won... could i have won without an attorney .. who knows you roll the dice and you take your chances sometimes you win and sometimes you lose..

well what I have is every year the doctor fills ;out a form used by SSD with her to check Good Fair Poor it lists about 40 items and every year for 5 years now I have had her fill out the form and she has me listed as poor for every place but two and the two she list as fair is do I show up for our appointments ... fair.. most of the time... and is the patient lacking hygiene... fair while he is often un shaven and dressed very casual he does appear to be clean and I contribute this to his wife who often drives him to his appointments and keeps him tidy....

well if you think about it what reason can i give them because its true there is no increase in bennies according to them /// and to use their words i am not relly asking for an increase of any type.. only a different way of going to the same place

Well the VA sent me a letter saying.... your request for increase has no merit as you are already 70% and IU PT and you would gain nothing from this claim... so i said the reason i wanted to be 100% scheduler is the state i wanted to move to required a full 100% to have some benefits and i may in the future apply for AA ... i have 8 years of doctors 2 times a month and the last 5 years i have gotten reports that would put me close to 100% as it is so i am giving it a shot..

well i applied for a 100% vs a 70% and IU .... i told them i planned on moving to a state that required 100% for benefits it will take time but i will see for evidence i sent 5 past years of doctors reports ... from a IMO

not at first ... first 70 and IU then i filed a NOD and got PT about 9 months later but it still said something about a review from time to time was possible