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With 7 years TIS and a law degree, you should focus on your health and take whatever action you and your medical team believe is in your best interests from a medical or health persepctive. Your concern about duty and loyalty to the Army is admirable, but you should remain mindful that it is...

Army Review Boards Agency 251 18th Street South, Suite 385 Arlington, VA 22202-3531 Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower & Reserve Affairs 111 Army Pentagon, Room 2E460 Washington, DC 20310–0111 phone (703) 545–5639, fax (703) 692–9000 (phone numbers require verification, may not be...

The Honorable Michael T. Mahoney is the current Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Review Boards and the Director, Army Review Boards Agency. His bio information is not readily available but apparently he is a retired Army colonel who has held various senior positions in DA leading to...

The final decision for the Secretary of the Army will be made by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Review Boards (DASA) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower & Reserve Affairs. I do not know the identity of the current DASA, as the position has seen...

In order to demonstrate a “regulation of activities,” you must have medical evidence showing that a medical provider has prescribed or advised you, as part of a treatment plan to manage your diabetes, to “avoid strenuous occupational and recreational activities.” An individual’s voluntary...

The military departments certainly appear to be abusing the non-duty related process to avoid awarding the appropriate disability retired pay or other benefits to members of the Reserve Components, including the National Guard. In case you are not already aware of it, the National Veterans...

I recommend that you work with your assigned Soldier's Counsel when it comes to communicating and submitting anything to the PEB. To the extent you think that suggestions here have merit in or may be useful for your case, make your Soldier's Counsel aware of them and discuss with counsel the...

Where HRC has determined a case should be dispositioned as non-duty related, the PEB does not have the authority on its own to re-refer the case to the IDES as a duty-related case based on evidence presented to the PEB, including during a hearing. Pursuant to Army Reg. 635-40, ¶ 5-23.c., if the...

You should consult with your Soldier's Counsel to get his or her view on what to submit to the IPEB or to a FPEB. My own view is that you should submit to the IPEB any evidence you have showing that your back, neck or migraines are duty-related from your deployment to Afghanistan. I think it...

I recommend that you submit a FOIA request to the VA using VA Form 20-10206 seeking your VA Claims File (C-File). The C-File often contains in one place all of the member's military health care records from way back (VA calls them service treatment records) that might not otherwise be easy to...

Here is an outline I put together that identifies and discusses some of the procedural and substantive issues that arise in the review of military disability decisions by the correction boards and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and U.S. district courts. It also includes a very brief overview...