Mr. Perry,
I was referred to your group by a liasion of my state. I am a veteran of the Mississippi National Guard. In 2016, while still in the guard, I was diagnosed with a cerebral angioma in my left temporal lobe. It was found during an ER visit for a migraine/fainting spell that happened not long after completing our 2 week summer AT. I went to a Nuero and was confirmed diagnosis. Over the next year my health depleted, and I was diagnosed with complex focal seizures in 2017. The guard decided to give me the option to discharge or PEB. I chose PEB. My contract ETS date was March 19, 2018. My PEB was started in fall of 2017. I never received any information about my PEB being completed. However, I did ETS. My discharge paper works says that I ETS'd, I am unfit for duty due to Migraines. I filed my disability claims, and I have still not received any disability rating. It has been 3 years and I am still waiting. I believe I should have been given a disability rating before leaving the military. I have medical paper work from a military doctor on base that says the symptoms were due to my training in the summer heat in the field for 12 days straight with no water. I was also was only one of 5 females in my unit, and I was one of only 2 linguists that ran mission ops during that 12 days. I was extremely exhausted, had little sleep, the food was army field food, and my body could not handle it, I guess. I need help to figure out what to do about my disability. Should I have been given a completed PEB? Is it legal to ETS/discharge me without finishing it? My unit needed my slot to be open for an incoming linguist to help on deployment. I often think this is why I was pushed out of the door. Do you have any advice?
Leslie
I am sorry to hear about your health issues and the problems with your discharge. As a baseline, I think that the issue of the propriety of your discharge turns on whether or not your condition was in the line of duty.
I assume you mean a VA disability claim. Is this the case?
Bottom line, at this point, if you want to challenge your discharge, you will need to apply to the Air Force Board for the Correction of Military Records.
It is hard to provide much more input without knowing more about your case.
Jason