Colonel charged with exposing woman to HIV recommended for trial

Although I don't doubt there are a handful who do this I personally have never heard or seen this. In fact it is usually the physician who tells them they are FOS.

The encouragement to file every and anything is given at TAPS class and by lore passed down from their own peers and people before them. Direct example is the number of people who at their separation physical told me they had sleep apnea (hence my quote from above). When I eventually inquired I was told they were told in TAPS to claim OSA no matter what. The number who suddenly didn't have any symptoms when I told them their seperation from service would be held up, possibly for a few months, for the appropriate testing was not inconsequential.

I think the system works in most cases. There are a few areas on both sides (too loose and too tight) but it works okay. Could it be improved, sure.

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Boy o Boy, I would love for you to be at my unit. These guys come back TAPS and their separation physicals as experts. None of them have been held up for retirement (the disability comes after they are out of service).

Example:
One guy was told put your arm at your side-if you move it this high you get blank%, this high blank% and so on until it was vertical above his head.

I'm obviously not in the room but they have stated that the Dr.s and PA's have put them in for it(don't know how it works but that's what they said). They were told that they can also increase their % as time goes on (I know 2 guys that have gotten an increase) some of the individual believe that the system is trying to get them up to 100% since they only recieve 50%+(20yr+ retirement) to make up the difference in pay from active duty. These individuals have no physical issues we can see9oh sure they has a resp mask to sleep with at night) and are doing pretty much the job they were doing when on active duty.

I see it as a real broke system---- very, very loose and disgusting!

One young petty officer(a few yrs in) asked a guy who was getting a disability recently if he could get one because he hurt his foot playing(some game) on the sports field.
 
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This thread started with a news article about assault charges being filed.

I know some try to find a way to jump on a soap box no matter what the original topic might be.

Could we please just give it a rest this time.
 
This thread started with a news article about assault charges being filed.

I know some try to find a way to jump on a soap box no matter what the original topic might be.

Could we please just give it a rest this time.

OOPS! Colored outside the lines.

I'm very sensitive like you and like you get disgusted at the abuse of the Disability System. At least you don't get to see it everyday like I do but I don't know that maybe you do see it.

I still learned a lot. I bet a lot of others have too.

There must be some interest on this- there are over a 1000 views!!!

It will always comes back around at em... doesn't it?

Now let's get back to the Good ole Colonel story. Anyone have something to say about him or the subject matter.
 
At TAPS (since I went through it in the last 5 years) we were told to provide out medical records upon separation, state anything that has been a problem and it will be evaluated.

We were told "play the system" or "throw everything you can at the wall and see what sticks."

No, it was "get everything in the record while you still can (because it's nearly impossible to filing anything once you're out) and allow the professionals to review it.

The physical exam was done by a civilian doctors office, contracted through… the VA or DOD or USCG… I'm not sure.

Anything that you mentioned was reviewed. For instance, I had had shoulder surgery while I was in. My shoulder was reviewed in the physical… and it was determined to be just fine. I had a tooth implant while I was in. My tooth implant was reviewed and determined to be fine.

The military does an absolutely horrible job during the separation process. It's not uncommon to find out you "missed" something that should have been stated or provided. Certainly don't want your medical records missing anything.
 
We were told "play the system" or "throw everything you can at the wall and see what sticks."

LITS, It hasn't changed. It may have gotten worse.

One guy was trying to figure out how he could capture the area where he was raised because of the high cancer rate in his town (I don't think he ever was able to find a way and gave up).

Another guy said he didn't really ask for his sleep apnea but just got it. I could go on and on with the brazen stories.

Like JCCLEPPE said it's outside the subject matter and we should turn back to the Colonel's story. Perhaps I'll start another thread of the stories that just can't be made up.
 
Always bad when the thing you leave out completely changes the meaning of the sentence!
 
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