I'm a 12 AD twice passed O3 usmc Aviator. I was originally supposed to separate November 2022 under a normal situation and go work for the airlines ss well as accepted to transfer to the reserves for a highly selective flight gig. My wife and kids moved in October 22 to the new home. The week after the moved, I lost vision in one eye due to a collapsed vessel while in a sustained G pull during a sortie while flying. That put my entire career and life up in the air.
The FAA immediately took away my medical, losing my career for the foreseeable future. My marine reserve career is now stripped as I can't fly with a bum eye for the military, my family is in a different city(where my command was nice enough to let me ptad there to live with them) and I've found myself in this medboard hellhole.
I was officially submitted for the DES process 10 January and I've had nothing but delays happen and it's unbelievably infuriating. My claim development process still isn't done even though I finished my last exam in march and it is now through the first week in June. I have seen people in different services get put in the system and now start to go on terminal because how fast their process is.
Goodnews: The faa came back 2 weeks ago and said I need 1 more test then my medical will be approved to fly commercially for the airlines within a month and a half!!!
Bad news even if everything went as fast as possible from here on out and abided by the timeline, I would not be finding out separation till at a minimum November and God only knows how long for the papers after that. We all know that will absolutely not be the case.
I don't want money or retirement, I want out of the corps. What was supposed to be a very bitter sweet breakup, has made me unbelievably anxious, angry, frustrated and depressed. I can't go in for psych help on the dod side because 1) i know what's causing it but 2) if the FAA sees the words anxious, angry, and depressed on my military records, they won't let me fly exacerbating the problem.
No matter what the findings (fit or unfit) I'm still 2p because all of my 2p peers left may 31st and will be leaving the service immediately after this terrible chapter.
If any of yall are aviators and understand what this civilian/military push pull is like, I need some mentorship and someone with a clear head of the situation. With how long this process is and with no one actually taking accountability of how bad navy and marinecorp timelines are(a friend of mine as been in it for a year and a half, found unfit and pdrl, and they still aren't giving him an EAS), I'm extremely tempted to just say screw it, withdraw from the IDES and separate under normal terms as soon as I get my medical so I can forget this entire nightmare.
For those saying "dude you are a pilot and lost vision, that's an easy retirement right there", the extent of the injury leaves me correctable to 20/100 in one eye and 20/20 in the other, giving me 10% per the cfrs because I could go be a manager at McDonald's I guess. That rating is completely screwed up for aviators.
The FAA immediately took away my medical, losing my career for the foreseeable future. My marine reserve career is now stripped as I can't fly with a bum eye for the military, my family is in a different city(where my command was nice enough to let me ptad there to live with them) and I've found myself in this medboard hellhole.
I was officially submitted for the DES process 10 January and I've had nothing but delays happen and it's unbelievably infuriating. My claim development process still isn't done even though I finished my last exam in march and it is now through the first week in June. I have seen people in different services get put in the system and now start to go on terminal because how fast their process is.
Goodnews: The faa came back 2 weeks ago and said I need 1 more test then my medical will be approved to fly commercially for the airlines within a month and a half!!!
Bad news even if everything went as fast as possible from here on out and abided by the timeline, I would not be finding out separation till at a minimum November and God only knows how long for the papers after that. We all know that will absolutely not be the case.
I don't want money or retirement, I want out of the corps. What was supposed to be a very bitter sweet breakup, has made me unbelievably anxious, angry, frustrated and depressed. I can't go in for psych help on the dod side because 1) i know what's causing it but 2) if the FAA sees the words anxious, angry, and depressed on my military records, they won't let me fly exacerbating the problem.
No matter what the findings (fit or unfit) I'm still 2p because all of my 2p peers left may 31st and will be leaving the service immediately after this terrible chapter.
If any of yall are aviators and understand what this civilian/military push pull is like, I need some mentorship and someone with a clear head of the situation. With how long this process is and with no one actually taking accountability of how bad navy and marinecorp timelines are(a friend of mine as been in it for a year and a half, found unfit and pdrl, and they still aren't giving him an EAS), I'm extremely tempted to just say screw it, withdraw from the IDES and separate under normal terms as soon as I get my medical so I can forget this entire nightmare.
For those saying "dude you are a pilot and lost vision, that's an easy retirement right there", the extent of the injury leaves me correctable to 20/100 in one eye and 20/20 in the other, giving me 10% per the cfrs because I could go be a manager at McDonald's I guess. That rating is completely screwed up for aviators.
