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If you were given a V-4 administrative determination code on your unfit memo it means the PEB is proposing to separate you with disability severance pay (<30% disability rating and <20 years of service). The V-4 yes means they determined your unfitting condition(s) to be combat related and your...

I can only speak for the Army side. The PEB places a copy of the VA Preliminary Rating Request memo with the PEB referred unfitting conditions in the SM's case file prior to sending it to the D-RAS for a rating. The PEBLOs have access to view and retrieve the unfit memo. In my experience in...

Standby Advisory Boards only apply to DA Centralized Promotion Selection Boards. Promotions to SGT or SSG fall under Semi-Centralized Boards.

I apologize. I should have clarified. That was the department I was referring to. Those wait times were as of 1 FEB 13 for IDES cases.

I do know that the D-RAS (VA) in Seattle is currently backlogged and are trying to get additional personnel to assist with the workload. Depending on whether your exams are adequate or not and the complexity of your injuries, it can take anywhere between 6 - 8 weeks to get a rating back. I am...

A "yes" next to V4 means the disability severance pay was awarded for disability incurred in a combat zone or incurred while performing combat-related operations. A Soldier only receives a V4 "yes" when that injury receives a disability rating of 0%, 10%, or 20% (in other words, a rating of <30%).

If you elected to have both the FPEB and a VA Recon on the same election, the PEB will not send your VA Recon forward until you have had your formal board. However, you still need to submit your formal request for both the FPEB and the VA Recon along with any new evidence you are using to...

Every Commander has an open door policy and your COC cannot stop you from exercising it. The timing, conduct, and specific procedures of the open door policy are determined by the Commander. Ask your COC to see the Battalion Commander's Open Door Policy. By regulation, it is supposed to be...

In the Army, a Soldier must always meet HT/WT standards, even if they have a permanent or temporary profile. The only Soldier's exempt from this are Soldier's who have a pregnancy profile. If a Soldier has a "dead man's profile" he or she is still not exempt from maintaining HT/WT standards IAW...

The only official notification as to whether or not you were found fit or unfit will be when you receive your DA 199, signed by the PEB President or his his or her designee, which will have your PEB findings and your VA ratings. Unofficially, you will know if you were found unfit if you are told...

You will need to extend in order to finish through the IDES process. Someone from the PEB should have contacted your PEBLO to request documentation (updated ERB/PQR or extension paperwork) from either you or your COC reflecting a current ETS date. Your case is put on a hold status until the PEB...

BigNes- SAFE is the secure, electronic information system that the PEB and the VA use to share information. When a case is ready to be sent for a rating, the PEB uploads the required documents into the SAFE system and sends it to the VA. The same happens when the rating is completed. The VA...

If your case was referred to the JBSA PEB in SEP 2012, your case would be what is called an e-PEB case, meaning your entire case is electronic versus PDCAPS as discussed above. I always advise Soldiers to get with their PEBLOs first for information on their PEB case because that is what one of...

mo4652-If you are Army and stationed at FT Benning, your case will be referred to the JBSA/FT Sam Houston PEB for a fit/unfit decision and your unfitiing conditions will be sent to the VA Disability Evaluation System (DES) Rating Activity Site (D-RAS) in Seattle, Washington. As stated above, the...

I do know the VA is back logged and has currently hired some additional personnel to review the medical exams for adequacy before acknowledging receipt and sending them to the R/O for review and a rating. It also depends when your case was referred to the PEB. The PEBs just went electronic in...

Ideally, it should take 120 days or less for the PEB to be completed but there are factors that affect that timeline, such as incomplete PEB packets, missing SM information/medical and administrative documentation, and the amount of time it takes the VA to get a preliminary rating back to the...