Holden Caulfield

Thank you Berta, I'll answer these questions as well as I can and I don't know what is generally known about the National Guard as compared to regular active duty so please excuse me if I state things that are well known. 1. I can't find my CRSC document. I have it, but I just haven't found it yet. It could be 100% but from the CRSC statement on MyPay it says 80% 2.Although I did 2 years active in the 80's I enlisted after 911 in 12/2001 and I was in the National Guard. In the guard you actually get a DD214 after each deployment. I started having severe issues in 2010 and a medical retirement process started. Due to, IMO, a "reluctant" and inept CO & admin NCO as well as changing from the old process system to the new IDES/MEB it took over three years to be medically discharged. So I was still in the guard while receiving 100% IU in 2010. In order to go through the medical discharge process I still had to show up every month and go to annual training. I finally medically retired out in 2013. 3. After a few years I applied for CRSC and received it. I of course was entitled to back pay from the date of my retirement, not the date of the VA disability. However for the first year they sent me retirement and disability at the same time. I didn't stay on top of that and then after a year they said we can't do that and only gave me VA disability. I asked if I owed them and continued to inquire and the most that DFAS said was that at this time you do not have a debt. So when I inquired about the backpay this was brought up and in all actuality i faired for the better. 4. I did have a VOS in 2010. MOPH, but nothing was known about being medically retired. I had done some googling and felt that a medical retirement would be good. She said it didn't matter and wasn't aware of the National Guard process. 5. I have 70% PTSD and 20% cervical radiculopathy and they are both combat related. The 20% came from a spinal injury during special forces training with the 20th group and is considered simulated war and is therefore covered under CRSC as a combat related injury. 6. My purple Heart is from an IED and was superficial and isn't a contributing factor to my CRSC on a physical level. However both my PH and my CMB attest to combat stressers.

Hello everyone, I served in OIF at the onset of the war from 3/2003 - 4/2004 as a front line medic.I also did a tour in 2008. I am currently 70% PTSD/Major Depression, 20% Cervical Radiculopathy and receiving 100% IU P & T as of 5/2013 but have been receiving 100% IU for my PTSD since 2/2010 . I also receive 80% CRSC for both of those conditions since 2013. I was denied service connection for asthma/COPD and Sleep Apnea. Since 2013 new information, and I assume evidence, has come out to establish burn pits as a cause for COPD and that sleep apnea can be a secondary condition to PTSD. My question is 1. Should I attempt to get these two conditions service connected with the goal of a 100% scheduler rating rather than IU or will that most likely adversely effect what I have now? 2. Is sleep apnea secondary to PTSD and COPD linked to burn pits, combat related? So I can keep my CRSC or possibly get it increased?