Anyone have any information on this? The excuse that I recieved concerning my appeal of the MEB findings was that:
"Per this week's operation order 12-31 from medical command, the VA is the competent medical examining authority, and the MEB will accept the VA C&P as the medical examination of record..."
Sounds good until you realiaze that this is being construed to deny appeals or addendums to the soldier's record prior to the PEB. For example, I have a chronic right side cervical radiculopathy as a result of rupturing two cervical discs. Since my VA physical, over one year ago, I've developed a similar condition on the left side and started loosing the functional use of my hands. I bring this up to the independant medical advisor, he checks the records, agrees that it should go in. Next thing I know it is denied and when I ask the ombudsman to enquire she received the aforementioned message.
"Per this week's operation order 12-31 from medical command, the VA is the competent medical examining authority, and the MEB will accept the VA C&P as the medical examination of record..."
Sounds good until you realiaze that this is being construed to deny appeals or addendums to the soldier's record prior to the PEB. For example, I have a chronic right side cervical radiculopathy as a result of rupturing two cervical discs. Since my VA physical, over one year ago, I've developed a similar condition on the left side and started loosing the functional use of my hands. I bring this up to the independant medical advisor, he checks the records, agrees that it should go in. Next thing I know it is denied and when I ask the ombudsman to enquire she received the aforementioned message.