Dadams09

Thanks for the reply, sir! I've chatted a bit with some VSO's and the advice has been the same. I'm waiting to be seen again; and with COVID the face-to-face check-ups haven't been rolling. Just gathering up the paperwork and medical records and hoping to get checked up in a year and I'll see where to go from there.

Hey everyone! I'll start off with the essential "sorry if this post is incorrect I'm a new guy." I'm looking to get some answers I've been hard pressed to find on VA disability ratings and whether mine are passable or overall what needs to be done in my circumstance; as well as for anyone that has medical records accessible in the military system. Essentially, I was a former paratrooper in the Army. As is to be expected with paratrooping (and the infantry in general), your body gets rocked a bit, and I left the service with a 90% disability rating. With that, I'd like to say I'm still in excellent condition and am active; even leaving with a class 1 medical status and am able to reenlist and still on IRR status. I believe genuinely in the case of my C&P the doctor was trying to help me out and word the conditions to increase a case for disability once hearing I was a paratrooper. I just genuinely wanted to be examined and checked out for any future issues. Taking the advice on most of the people I knew getting out at the time and the medical staff themselves I was told to report everything just so I could go through examinations to see if there even was an issue at all. Funnily enough, all I did was go through the C&P with no follow on examinations and no real medical history leading up to that point. FINALLY, The questions I have are: - How are disability ratings viewed when getting back into the military? - What should I do about my disability ratings and medical history (if anything)? - Does this medical history disqualify me permanently; or are waivers possible at all? - How do you lower or drop VA disability ratings? - What records and medical history is accessible by SG? Some greater explanation is "Not Service Connected" were the issues to be found non-existent. The TBI worries me the most as I'm not sure where that even came from. The only thing I could think of is my motorcycle accident though I didn't even lose consciousness or report it as such. I especially didn't have memory loss or insomnia and even headaches. The rest of the body pains come from being infantry and him aiding me out though I could receive doctors notes and much more that I am fine. My only final issue is a torn labrum and SLAP tear in my right shoulder that I haven't had surgery on. Though I plan to undergo physical therapy and overall I have full mobility and it's strong; but if physical therapy fails I may get surgery on it. ruptured spleen/ pain in chest Not Service Connected right thigh limitation of flexion 0% Service Connected right shoulder labral tear, superior labral, anterior-posterior lesion with frequent dislocation (claimed as bilateral shoulder) 30% Service Connected bilateral hearing loss Not Service Connected shortness of breath Not Service Connected left wrist sprain (claimed as left wrist condition) 10% Service Connected left shoulder strain (claimed as bilateral shoulder condition) Not Service Connected traumatic brain injury and insomnia disorder (claimed as TBI/memory loss, insomnia, headaches) 40% Service Connected lumbosacral strain (claimed as back condition) 10% Service Connected left knee strain (claimed as bilateral knee) 10% Service Connected right hip strain (claimed as right hip) 10% Service Connected right ankle deltoid ligament strain (claimed as right ankle) 10% Service Connected Tinnitus 10% Service Connected painful motion, right shoulder labral tear, superior labral anterior-posterior lesion (SLAP) 20% Service Connected right knee strain (claimed as bilateral knee) I know this seems a lot, though like I said, I don't have much medical records on any of these outside of that one C&P exam which is the part that maddens me most. I'll still send it and see what happens at Wright-Patterson, I just wanted to know whether to get my hopes up or not; and to start preparing any documents that are needed. I still plan on getting further exams through the VA and trying to clear this up. Just so far, the VA isn't very receptive. Thank you guys again, and I'll explain more on my health stuff if needed! 10% Service Connected

Whitman, I’m currently curious about the same topic. I got out of four years in the infantry with some disability and was curious on whether getting cleared of the disability and dropping the payments was preferable, or just having independent doctors clear you of it and carrying that paperwork is enough. What did the recruiter say as a whole? That just having it reviewed by a doctor and paperwork saying it would be fine would work?

H_G Do you have any information on getting into the Guard/Reserves during ROTC? I just started the Aviation Technology program at my school and I've been searching for info on how to do it.