MEB as an M-Day troop

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ChaosActual

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Can someone give me insight on how MEB's work for M-Day soldiers? I have 6 years active duty, 6 years guard currently. Throughout my time on AD i gained some pretty life long injuries as well as medical conditions. With all that, I am in the national guard as an M-day troop and I've been rated 100% P&T through the VA. Due to my conditions I cannot meet the physical army standards anymore. I love what I do, but l'm guessing a MEB is going to be initiated at some point in my career. My question is, if a MEB was granted & an M-Day soldier is found to be medically retired, how does the retirement pay work? Is it immediate like active duty? Or is it not payable until you hit retirement age like how regular guard retirement works? I am also an miltech since November, if that is worth sharing. From my understanding an LDES would be the route to chose with a MEB being that I’m already 100%PT?

All insight is appreciated, thanks!
 
Your first hurdle is the ratings. Depending on what your job is, your disabilities can preclude you from doing that. Those conditions are the only ones that the DoD will look at for their consideration. You are at 100 and not close to 15/20 years. You wouldn’t get anything. The DoD offsets whatever your retirement is that isn’t covered by the VA. A guard guy isn’t going to get that separate check unless all injuries were combat related or hazard duty and then there is a different pay to apply for. Also, depends on what is on your profile now and what is P3. You could have 30 conditions and only be referred for the 1 that is P3. That 1 will be used and none of the others when you are sent to the MEB. Everything is an uphill battle as a guardsmen. Good luck.


Also, if you elect to add all your conditions, to increase your chance of getting to 30%, you must redo all exams you add unless the exam was within one year. So if someone determines your injuries have improved, then you’ll lose the p&t
 
Good advice, thank you. How much of a difference does it make if all of my injuries and the development of medical conditions were while I was active duty? Some in Garrison and some while in Iraq. Not that I’m pushing for an MEB, I just want to be aware of what I’m looking at in case they do go that route. From my understanding if it does happen, they give you the choice of the IDES or LDES & that LDES does not hurt your VA ratings. Is that true?
 
ChaosActual said:
Good advice, thank you. How much of a difference does it make if all of my injuries and the development of medical conditions were while I was active duty? Some in Garrison and some while in Iraq. Not that I’m pushing for an MEB, I just want to be aware of what I’m looking at in case they do go that route. From my understanding if it does happen, they give you the choice of the IDES or LDES & that LDES does not hurt your VA ratings. Is that true?
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I’d suggest bringing it to your med team and letting them look at your conditions to determine which is P3. As an m-day at 100% your in someone’s billet that could deploy. If you are sent to medboard by the medical people, you can pick LDES. there are a lot of posts about that in this forum. There are more legal protections for IDES as far as I understand, but I’m not at 100 so I didn’t consider that.
 
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