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I'm sorry that happened to you. The process seems really arbitrary.

The FPEB found me fit for duty, given the requirements of my MOS (Force Management), even though I am non-deployable due to my medication.

Thanks Mike, I just sent an email to my PEBLO to try to start that appeal process ASAP.

Mike, On the DA Form 199, they cite 5242-5240 Ankylosing spondylitis on humira (MEB Dx 1) as my unfitting condition which is, I believe, associated with the preliminary VA rating letter that says "5242-5240 ANKYLOSIS SPONDYLITIS (ALSO CLAIMED AS BILATERAL HIPS, BILATERAL FINGERS AND BILATERAL...

They used 5240, and rated it as "Ankylosing Spondylitis on Humira" as the unfitting condition. The VA 70% rating is a combination of joints (fingers, feet, hips, neck and knees) and tinnitus and includes the codes: 70% (Bilateral factor of 4.7 Percent for diagnostic codes 5215, 5215, 5237, 5260...

Do you mind sharing your VA rating decision? I too have AS, treated w/ Humira. I got a 10% Army / 70% VA preliminary rating myself.

Thanks for the input. I have addressed my concern in my appeal to the IPEB's findings and will bring it up again at the FPEB if it goes that far. As an O-4, Force Manager, there are very few (if any) situations where I will be expected to live in an austere environment, unless deployed. There...

Does the following excerpt from AR 635-40 mean what I think it means? I take it to mean that if the only reason my IPEB found me unfit was my inability to deploy to an austere environment, then they are outside of the regulation's intent. “Although the ability of a Soldier to reasonably perform...

Thank you for posting this timeline. I will be starting an MEB shortly at Ft. Belvoir. I was informed verbally by my rheumatologist that he would put a P-3 on my PUHLES, still waiting on referral. So, looking at your timeline, it looks as though the goal of less than 100 days from referral to...