Discharge Review Board

[H4nds0l0]

So I've come back from before, 24 year old male with 50% service connected disability from the VA for Depression and Anxiety. I got a letter from the Air Force Review Boards Agency on Mar 5th that they received my application for review and was given the docket number FD-2011-00057.

I had a pretty hefty package that I sent, including a legal brief from a private lawyer that I hired. Anyone know when I will be getting to go in for a hearing? This year? Next? I tried to compare my status to the pages on boards.law.af.mil but it seems like all of the discharge reviews were all over the place. People who submitted in 2005 were being reviewed in 2007, and people who submitted in 2007 were being reviewed just a few months later.

I guess i'm #57 in line for review...for 2011...but does that mean I'll have to wait two years?

[john999]

Can't you get G.I. Bill with general under honorable? Have you checked into that. You know my review board came to the VARO to do their hearing. However, with a lawyer on the case I think you have a much better chance especially with a 50% rating for mental condition. I think you will be OK. If you were trying to upgrade LTH or to medical it would be harder, but not impossible. I really think you should have gone for medical and have your fall back as honorable. I assume you were discharged as unsuitable due to personality disorder. This was in injustice to you. Did you serve in a combat zone? You were treated like a dog. So were many of us. Get every benefit you can get. The people that kicked you out will get everything the system has to offer and then some. You know I spent two months in a mental hospital in the Army and was under psychiatrist's care when I was kicked out for PD. I got just 10% from VA for major mental disorder. Now I am TDIU for the last almost ten years. I filed a CUE on my original rating and hired a lawyer. In both our cases the military threw us on the garbage dump. Show them the same mercy they showed you. Take it easy, but take it. You are one of a horde of vets who were screwed so don't feel lonely.

[H4nds0l0]

You must mean the GI Bill.

http://www.gibill.co...-discharge.html

I sure hope you get this favorably fixed.

But you would also be eligible for VA Voc Rehab from what I seem to see here.

But if you paid for the GI Bill I sure see your point.

Thank you for your service.

I haven't looked into VA Voc Rehab, but none of my states Nursing programs are up to the standard that I want to pursue. I need to go out of state to the University of Pittsburgh which is one of the top nursing programs in the country, and i'm unsure if the VA will fund my education there since it will cost more.