Did you wait till you were out to get your disability rating? If so, how long before you made your first claim?

I was rated 100% in 06 but not retired temporary until 08 and permanently in 2010, got the 1st check the first month after I was out. Do it before you get out.

I retired from the Army in 2011 (after 34 years of service) and got my rating, of 10%, for hearing lose in 2017. The interesting thing about getting a rating and monthly payment from VA, is for a military retiree, they take take the money out of your retirement pay. If I had not retired from the military, I could have been making a million dollars a year and still get the VA monthly payment, without affecting my civilian income.

Six months before I retired I went to the base VSO. She read through my MEDREC (three vols.), completed all required forms and other documents and submitted them to the VA.
I won't bet my pension on it but if memory serves I received my disability rating within a week retiring.

I don't recall the exact conversation after my retirement physical, but for some reason I seem to recall being assured that after 20 years of active duty that I would pretty much be guarenteed a disability rating. Sometime during the first year, after I had secured employment and a stable life I did file my initial VA disability claim and it came back %20 percent service connected. Since then I have had 1 upgrade evaluation and now stand at %30 service connected

Started the paperwork during my ACAP process, months before my final out. Last day of service was January 31, retired pay started in March, Disability rating was received in March as well. I utilized the “Purple Heart Association” which I understand has lost it Accreditation with the VA. There are other Veterans Associations that perform the medical records reviews, and submit to the VA.

Got out in 70, went to the VA, said my hearing was bad..10%. Just didn't fit so after 2 years went back in..stayed until 91 and Desert Storm. Started having flashbacks, was taken from the war and returned to base and told to retire. Went to the same VA, saw the same doctor, who remembered me. He said if we would have known about PTSD, I would have been 100%. I was able to "hide" with my brothers and sisters for almost 20 years because they understood war.

I did mine about 3 or 4 months before I retired, it was finalized about 4 months after I retired.

RETIRED AT 10%. NOW AT 80%.

NO HAD 10% WHEN I RETIRED. NOW AT 80%

I waited years before I made my claim. That was stupid. Broken cervical vertebrae from a helicopter crash. Lived with the pain for years before I had it fused.