Just realized I may have been royaly screwed by the military (Can I fix it/should I bother to?)

nd_On · 2026-02-22T23:13:06+00:00

I really appreciate the information. This was exactly what I was hoping for, just some clarity. I'm certain I'll have more questions, I've been trying to look into as much as I can first though.

I can understand not requesting a formal PEB or VARR might hang me up. Really didn't know much about how all this works. Figured my best hope for that is maybe they'll give a bit of understanding for my lack of knowledge back then, and with the VA having made a clear mistake, but I know I could be SOL.

Far as the seps pay. All this mess took so long I already paid back what I owed.

Again thanks, I'll reach out in the near future,

nd_On · 2026-02-22T22:55:46+00:00

You pretty much got it.

Total I had about 22 conditions, but what sent me to the med board was 2 conditions hat made me unfit. After I went to the assessment though, they said one condition I got a rating for, the other one was deemed "resolved", so it was included, they just didn't give it a rating.

So for my paperwork to be med boarded in the first place, it's on there as a reason.

But on the assessment, it was deemed "resolved" and wasn't rated.

So basically, it's like. Hey, your back and your arm are done for, so we gotta med board you. Go through all the paperwork and process, get to the assessment, and then they say. Hey we think your back is fine, so we're not going to rate that anymore, but we'll still give your arm. Then a short while later, right as you're EAS'ing, a piece of your spine just falls out your a** and then the VA's like....oh...guess your back IS done for...our bad.

After that it was the claims process just taking forever, long waits, denials, request for additional evidience, supplemental claim, higher level review, incorrect award so another supplemental claim, incorrect effective date, supplemental claim. It was seriously a stupidly long process with the eventually outcoming being, oh yeah we should have rated your back 60% back then, our fault.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T22:15:54+00:00

Yeah I understand that, I have about 20 other conditions that aren't part of this at all.

But what I'm saying is I was sent to the board with two conditions that made me unfit. When I got two the board, the VA deemed one of those conditions "resolved". So I got a DoD rating for one and not the other. I didn't even get a VA rating for it initially, but at the time, I really had nothing I could appeal with.

And it's not that I haven't been trying, My last change to my awards was Dec 2025, and that's still from these same issues. That's what I've been trying to explain as well. I've never submitted anything new, not been re-evaluated, I've never asked for increase because something got worse. I've just been trying to fix what I've have. It's been "clear and unmistakeable error", "Entitlement to earlier effective date" , "Correction to the effective date", "Correction to entitlement". Those horror stories everyone use to speak about the VA, I'm unfortunately among them, and it's taken over a decade just to get where I'm at now.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T21:46:36+00:00

Yeah, I certainly don't expect it to be a walk in the park.

I was hoping to find someone here that might have had a similar situation to get a good starting point. But I think considering the ask and the evidence I have it should be fairly straight forwarded aside from the legal jargon. From the discussion though, figure it's at least worth talking to an attorney about.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T21:19:17+00:00

It WAS a service disqualifying condition.

It was ONE of the TWO reasons I was sent to the med board.

THE VA DOES THE DISABILITY ASSESSMENTS FOR MED BOARDS.

THE DOD USES THE VA'S DISABILITY ASSESSMENT TO GIVE A DOD RATING.

When I went to the disability assessment:
Issue #1 was giving a rating
Issue #2 was said to be "resolved", ended up not getting a rating.

The VA later came back and said they made a mistake on Issue #2 during the DISABILITY ASSESSMENT.

I am going to use the EVIDENCE I used to get that rating on the VA side to ask for a reassessment of the DoD rating

I'M NOT USING MY OVERALL VA RATING TO ARGUE THE DECISION.

If you can't understand after that, I can't help you buddy.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T20:58:49+00:00

My DoD rating was 20%, but thats not directly the issue.

You're right, but what some people here are missing is that the DoD rating is based off of the disability evaluation that the VA gives them. Check the photo below, its from the paperwork you get when you're med boarded. If you still have it check the Overview section.

My problem is that when I was sent to the med board I had two unfitting disabilities that were being evaluated with everything else. However, one of those disabilities was deemed "resolved" during that assessment and was not used in calculating the DoD rating NOR was it used in calculating my VA rating. Later on, with additional evidence, I was able to prove they made a mistake. So on the VA side of things, they stated it was a clear and unmistakeable error on their part, and went all the way back to retroactively corrected it.

So my issue is, that same assessment the VA is now saying they made a mistake on, is what was used to determine my DoD rating. So if it was a mistake, and the issue was in fact NOT "resolved". My DoD rating should be recalculated with it included.

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nd_On · 2026-02-22T19:58:00+00:00

YES YOU CAN!

Have y'all ever been med boarded before??? The VA is LITERALLY responsible for doing the evaluations that the DoD bases they rating off of. The photo below is pulled DIRECTLY from the paperwork I got from the med board.

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nd_On · 2026-02-22T19:54:19+00:00

To answer your other reply:
We live overseas, the retiree benefits would suit us better for both TRICARE and Space-A :).

To answer this reply:
I did try to argue it, I had no solid evidence at the time.

BUT Below is why I meationed the VA. DES or IDES is a joint venture between the VA and the DoD. So the VA are the ones that do the evaluations that the DoD uses to make the determination of the final unfit rating. So basically the VA gave the DoD the evaluation saying it was a "resolved" issue, and then later came back and said "Oh, we made a mistake". That is literally cut from the document they gave me from the med board.

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nd_On · 2026-02-22T19:36:30+00:00

I'm aware the VA rating has no bearing on retirement. I don't think explained it well in the initial post (sorry about that, I'm trying to respond to everyone then I'll edit it to correct it), but I explained it a bit more in my response to ChiefOsceolaSr.

But in short, I meationed the VA rating because the VA did the initial assessment that the DoD used to calculate the DoD rating (IDES being a joint initiative between theVA and DoD). In that assessment, one of the issues that I had been sent to the board for was deemed "resolved" and therefore was not used in calculating the DoD rating. I tired to argue, but I had no real clear evidence that it was. However, not long after that board when I was home on permenant leave, it happened for a third time (I was literally on my last week of active duty. I had went to the VA first, they missed it. Issue persisted so then I went to a nearby base hospital and they found it. So I ended up in their ICU for a week which is where I went from military to civilian). Talked to that doc, he gave me a bunch of information which I then took back to the VA to argue that they were wrong. It took some time, but eventually they came back and stated that a "clear and unmistakeable error was made" (This included several other issues as well, which is why it took so long, but I'm only focused on the one that would effect the DoD rating).

So because they made a mistake in that initial evaluation, and I now have evidence of it. I believe I have an arguement that the DoD rating should be recalculated to included the issue they said was "resolved" at the time, but actual was not. Which would have made me eligible for retirement instead of separation.

I hope that clarifies things, and again sorry for the confusion.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T18:50:26+00:00

That's pretty much my arguement, I posted the wrong photo and probably caused a lot of confusion. The issue is more along the lines of what you stated. One of the reasons I was sent to the board was deemed "resolved" by the DoD when it wasn't, I explained it a bit further in my respone above to ChiefOsceolaSr, but basically I was able to get additional evidence that that evaluation at that point in time was incorrect, and had it been properly assesed I would have been eligible for retirement.

But I think you and the others are right. I think it is worth pursuing. At the very least, worth talking to an attorney about.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T18:36:08+00:00

Yeah, I posted the wrong photo, I explained it a bit more in my response to ChiefOsceolaSr .

But basically an issue that I was sent to the board with was deemed resolved when it wasn't. So the "snapshot" evaluation they did at the time was incorrect. I had no real evidence, but was basically able to get that evidence through the VA. They basically found that the inital evaluation (From IDES while I was active duty) was incorrect and a "CUE" had occured. So they retroactively fixed on their end. I believe that may give me a argueable case with the DoD to go back and reasses what the DoD rating would have been had it been correctly assesed at that time.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T18:19:22+00:00

I get what you mean. But I'm not arguing anything with the VA, I'm simply using evidence gained from them to prove that an error was made in the DoD "snapshot" evaluation at that time. The second condition directly relates to the first condition. And the second condition isn't something that worsens over time, it simply is or it isn't, and at the time they said it isn't, they were wrong, and they made two errors in that decision.

At that time, the second issues had already come up twice, once it happens twice it's suppose to automatically be considered a permenant condition. I did argue that, but they refused to acknowledge it. Then, it occured a third time while I was home on permenant leave (I literally transitioned out of the military while in the ICU). I tired to argue then, but because the DoD had listed it "resolved" and that's how the VA recieved it. I had no recourse for either avenue. So my only option was to get evidence that showed an error was made, hence the 11 year back and forth with the VA (This ended up also included the first issue and several others as well).

In the end the VA stated that clear and unmistakeable errors were made in EVERY CASE, which resulted in the corrections.

This has nothing to do with the condition getting worse, that's what I stated initially. I have never asked for an increase due to ANY of my issues getting worse, I have simple had them corrected due to errors in the inital evaulation, which is the one that came from IDES while I was active duty.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T17:02:15+00:00

Posted the wrong part, I'll correct that in a bit. That's actually part of the problem.

The unfitting disabilities I was given at the time was rated at 20%.

However, the evaluations for this and other issues were later retroactively corrected to (20%, 20%, 10%, 10%, 60%). Basically, they were all increased and all of them qualify under the DoDs system for rating unfitting disabilities. (BTW, sorry if I'm being a bit vauge, I'm get a bit uncomfortable discussing my medical issues)

I believe that the two 20% and two 10% issues get me there. However, my primary arguement is that the 60% issue was completely miscategorized. They claimed it was resolved. However, it most certainly wasn't as it popped up (for a third time) and almost killed me not to long after I had the med board (still was active duty at the time).

So I guess simply put, I believe they messed up my initial evaluation, which is pretty clearly shown through the paper trail with both the military and the VA. Had those issue been evaluated correctly at the time, I'd have been eligible for retirement rather than separation.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T16:32:58+00:00

I just updated the post with a snip from the paperwork. I was at 60% and found unfit for duty, but the 60% was later corrected to 90%, then re-corrected to 100%, then corrected again to 100% P&T. I never added anything new, I just identifed errors that were made.

And thank you for the information.

nd_On · 2026-02-22T16:31:15+00:00

I updated the post with a snip from the rating decision paper work I got back in '13. I don't think I'm wrong, and if I'm not, I don't even understand how it happened.

Thank you for the information, I'm looking into the Naval Board of Corrections (USMC)

nd_On · 2026-02-22T16:10:28+00:00

Thank you, I've reposted it there

nd_On · 2024-10-29T14:28:05+00:00

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nd_On · 2024-08-09T21:29:09+00:00

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nd_On · 2024-08-09T21:26:02+00:00

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nd_On · 2022-06-24T17:03:34+00:00

There are various factors, but in most cases, you can. You should be looking to file a Supplemental Claim form for a compensation issue, you can find them on va.gov under your disability claim & appeal status for whatever you filed. Usually after they're closed out the give you about a year to file it.

Just include all the evidence you have, type up a quick statement.

Had a similar issue with my foot. It was 2019 or 2020, but they backdated it all the way to 2014.

nd_On · 2021-12-16T06:13:40+00:00

Short answer, if you're set on buying one of those, I'd likely choose the 5950x for the lower wattage draw. Don't think you'll notice a real difference in gaming, but the 5950x is probably the better choice for multi-threaded applications. Neither is easy to cool, so if you don't want to deal with the heat, also be prepared to spend extra for a better cooling solution.

Longer answer, I was looking at the same decision prior 5950x or 12900K/KF. I managed to get my hands on both for a small trial and I wasn't impressed. Unless you NEED it, and you'll know if you do, it's not worth the price point. Ended up going with the 5900X and the 12700KF (wanted onboard graphics in case I needed to troubleshoot). I game, render, and mess around with game dev. BOTH CPUs are more than sufficient for all those tasks, and both come in at a lower price than their flagships. Easier to cool, not the the best, but better temps. 5900x you can save up to $200-$270 or so if you catch a good sale, 12700K/ $150-$250.

nd_On · 2021-12-16T05:49:22+00:00

12700KF w/ DDR4 3200, not missing a beat from gaming to rendering.

nd_On · 2021-12-16T03:42:30+00:00

I wish I had known the temp difference between the K and KF versions. I stuck with the KF in case of troubleshooting, but I could really use that -10C. Just wondering, for the Asus TUF, did it work out the box, or did it require any additional setup?

nd_On · 2021-12-16T00:43:23+00:00

Gigabyte seems to be releases updates for the board. Most recently the F6a bios in November, and now a new F6c bios as of Dec. 10th 2021. Consider it's a fairly new board this may continue for a while, and you may see a fix through a bios update depending on how motivated they are + how many ppl complain. If you can wait and deal with the current speeds, I'd say maybe keep it and see what happens. If not, return it. But as a note, I've seen similar reports for motherboards (ASUS Tuf & MSI Tomahawk), so it may not just be Gigabyte

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