Med Board for everything?

SFC Atchison, while there is no directive from DA mandating MEB's, what is being mandated is a high personnel readiness rate. Everyone on profile detracts from your readiness rate, which must remain above 90%. So, what we (the Command) are seeing, are personnel who ride on a profie from 180-300 days. In and out of things that aren't helping them, missing appointments, etc, etc. Anytime someone has a prognosis that isn't "going to get better in X days with minimal possibility of long term profile," you are going to see a push to MEB. When you first joined, the MEB didn't exist and you went through a much more streamlined system...and the only focus of that system was to evaluate you and change your MOS or get you out. It was all about readiness. We haven't returned to that yet, but if we keep drawing down, the Army is going to have to modify some of its programs to fit the new paradigm. These systems worked in a large COIN focused army with ARFORGEN to assist in the filling of deploying units. Hell, to compensate for all the profiles and other non-availables, a unit would be 120% assigned prior to going to war, just to have 90% deployable. We can't sustain that anymore.

It is regulatory guidance that if, and when a SM receives a permanent profile, they will be evaluated to make sure they are fit for their job. While it seems harsh, I feel that most of the time the SMs are left to carry out their duty. If they didn't do this, we (the Army) would be in danger of injuring Soldiers further, by making them perform duties that their limitations don't allow.

Here is a good source of info http://www.wtc.army.mil/modules/soldier/s6-ides.html

They got me at 18.5 years and saved themselves a good chunk of change. All I get is veterans disabiities since it is more than military pension and you can't "double dip"