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Kicked out: the pain and process
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This is a group for the families of sailors who are being discharged (or were discharged) from the Navy before their enlistments are/were up. The group is for support, information and more.
Members: 16
Latest Activity: Jun 30, 2020
Discussion Forum
FAQ: How will my sailor get home after discharge?
Started by Arwen Oct 4, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Travel home after being discharged from the Navy (for any reason) is based on bus travel if the sailor is located in the continental U.S.Discharged sailors have the choice of taking a bus ticket…Continue
Help please
Started by tasstables. Last reply by tasstables Oct 2, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
This was sent to me by my daughterPlease i need help getting the information.I am in Ohio .this girl is getting out next week . will be in Norfolk VAI do not know who she is. (she might be your…Continue
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Comment by Arwen on August 8, 2011 at 12:28am
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He got a general under honorable conditions. I forgot his RE code, but it wasn't one that will affect him except for being unable to return to the Navy.
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Chris is doing fairly well. Unfortunately, his Navy paycheck for the last two years was too big and he won't get financial aid of any kind to go to school. He has no job prospects, but is living with his grandmother as a live-in caregiver. She's disabled, and he does all the physical tasks for her. It's cheaper for her to feed him than pay for a caregiver. That gives him some time to either find work, or get financial aid next year.
He is very frustrated and wishes he could turn back time. The Navy was working out very well for him until he made the one split-second bad decision. Right now it's like a bad breakup that was all one-sided - one person is still in love and the other person is over it. Chris is still emotionally connected to the Navy. It's going to be a while before he "gets over the Navy" and can move on.
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Comment by Craig on May 10, 2011 at 9:42pm
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To add to what Angie says, even if he get a measly 10% he will get free VA home loans for the rest of his life. Which means that he pay zero funding fees, which is a heck of alot of money.
I'm collecting disability pay and have refi'd my house about 7 times now, each time I paid nothing.
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Arwen - You need to get this documented. He needs to go to the nearest DAV
Also go here, Dave_M is a guru about disability stuff. Lots of good reading...
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I'm not so much worried about what "he could get for it," but that it could become something worse. I'd rather have it treated so that it never becomes any kind of disability, than he get some kind of compensation. Now he has no insurance and can't go to the doctor, so we can't even find out what the problem is.
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Chris is home now. My mom helped with gas money.
However, we have another issue. I was going through Chris' records to make sure he had what he needs, and discovered he had a broken leg at one point (they never mentioned it to him, just gave him crutches cared for the more obvious severe abrasions on the skin). But the question is for the problems he FAILED TO MENTION during his exit physical exam. His right wrist/arm bones click loudly when he turns his hand, and he is having knee problems. I could kill him for not mentioning these to the doctor, but he said "they weren't causing a problem at the time" so it didn't occur to him to say anything. I see these as possible major problems in the future. Is it completely too late to do anything about it, at least to get it in his records?
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Arwen - So am I getting this correctly, he is home now? Correct? If not, I can think of other ways to get him to where he is going. Just need to know if he still needs help.
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They did fly him home. There is no bus that connects to our town from the north, he would have to go 300 miles south to catch the only bus that connects. I guess that cost more than the flight.
We had no gas money to get him, and it takes a full tank to make the trip. I borrowed from my mom, with a promise of repayment from the money he was told he would get from the leave he accrued but did not use.
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Arwen - Just wondering, I thought that they would send them back on a bus, and not a airline. You may want to double check that.
Did he get briefed about how to submit a travel claim? It seems like he could pay for a taxi and then submit it on a travel claim. Just trying to give you some ideas...
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Chris got his discharge papers and airline tickets today. He did get a general under honorable (apparently they took into account the circumstances). Now we have to figure out how to get him from the airport to home. It's 125 miles away, and there's no bus between here and there. I thought he was supposed to get transportation to within 50 miles of his home?
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