It was my initial MOS, I trained on the 90mm and 120mm recoiless rifles then on the TOW. I spent three years with the 82nd in HHC/CSC 1/505 Tow platoon. Then transferred to the 7th Inf Division at Ft. Ord and carried a 90mm for a year.

SSG Gordon Holmes good times!!! I started 11B and became 11M. As soon as I finished school 11M and 11H went away although the job itself is still there. This was 2012 at NTC when I was in a weapons company.

1SG Mark Flowers you used the word "retired". Yes, of course, retirement and VA service connection can be received together (monetary payments) as well as the benefits related to treatment. Please excuse me. When I read the post initially, I must have misunderstood a detail. From the wording, I was thinking of active duty disability severance pay. If s member receives military serverance pay and then wants to get paid under the VA service connection, this can happen. The member can convert his receipt of benefits as service connection and receive treatment as a service connected veteran. But the monetary portion of the service connection benefit will go towards paying back the active duty medical serverance pay. Once the total of the serverance pay has been satisfied, the veteran will then start to receive the service connected pay allowance. When it comes to monetary payments, there are too many scenarios to know from a post what the question is asking. FYI SSG Gordon Holmes .

1SG Mark Flowers correct, retirees who have a service connected condition can get both. Correct again, there is something concerning being in a "medical hold status??@@??", that makes some kind of impact, the details escape me. I can't seem to remember specific designation. So always feel free to talk to a Service Officer from the Veteran Service Organizations or your County Veterans Service Officer about all the details surrounding disability awards because there are several scenarios that govern how service connection with pay and without pay come about.