What steps I should be taking to ensure I get a med board, or should I just hire an attorney now? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am a reservist with 16 &quot;good years&quot; and rated at 90% VA disability from my active duty time. During my last PHA the physician said he would medical board me due to medical conditions and I replied great! I&#39;m wanting to retire now. My problem is my ETS is in 3 months and I&#39;ve heard nothing from medical after several inquiries and they don&#39;t/won&#39;t put me on no pay/no points status, which is all I really need to submit to the AFRC and I am eligible for retirement because I&#39;m over the magic 15 mark. Can anyone tell me what steps I should be taking or should I just hire an attorney now? Sun, 02 May 2021 18:09:56 -0400 What steps I should be taking to ensure I get a med board, or should I just hire an attorney now? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am a reservist with 16 &quot;good years&quot; and rated at 90% VA disability from my active duty time. During my last PHA the physician said he would medical board me due to medical conditions and I replied great! I&#39;m wanting to retire now. My problem is my ETS is in 3 months and I&#39;ve heard nothing from medical after several inquiries and they don&#39;t/won&#39;t put me on no pay/no points status, which is all I really need to submit to the AFRC and I am eligible for retirement because I&#39;m over the magic 15 mark. Can anyone tell me what steps I should be taking or should I just hire an attorney now? MSgt Private RallyPoint Member Sun, 02 May 2021 18:09:56 -0400 2021-05-02T18:09:56-04:00 Response by SSgt Christophe Murphy made May 3 at 2021 11:59 AM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now?n=6946779&urlhash=6946779 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you are already retirement eligible and already at 90% I don&#39;t know what you are trying to achieve with a medical retirement. Regardless of the reasons, you need more than 3 months for the medboard process to run it&#39;s course. I&#39;m not familiar with the reserve/guard med board process but on the AD side it takes 6 months just for the package to process after it is submitted for evaluation. That means you will need to re-up or extend. But I would highly recommend you push for 20 years if you can. A lot of things change when you retire under 20 in comparison to a full 20+ retirement. But 3 months isn&#39;t enough time to make anything happen. SSgt Christophe Murphy Mon, 03 May 2021 11:59:33 -0400 2021-05-03T11:59:33-04:00 Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 3 at 2021 12:14 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now?n=6946808&urlhash=6946808 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>An attorney isn&#39;t going to help you. A Med board is a medical referral not an admin or legal action to initiate it. If you&#39;re only 3 months away you don&#39;t have enough time to process a MEB. You&#39;ll usually have to reenlist or extend long enough to start the MEB process, once it&#39;s started then your PEBLO can get an ETS extension for you.<br /><br />There is no magic 15 year mark. Retirement is 20 years unless you are medically retired. SFC Private RallyPoint Member Mon, 03 May 2021 12:14:37 -0400 2021-05-03T12:14:37-04:00 Response by SFC Jake Middaugh made May 3 at 2021 1:48 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now?n=6947026&urlhash=6947026 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Being a Being a reservist, the MEB/PEB is a bit different. There are two ways to initiate it:<br />- Your Commander has the authority to initiate it<br />Or<br />- you must be on a profile for 1 year. Each profile is good for up to 90 days, and then they would have to be extended &amp; continued for 1 year - then it would be referred to the MEB. <br /><br />Because you already have 90% with the VA, it is surprising that you had no profiles starting the MEB/PEB...<br />Nevertheless, because you already have 90%, you should be able to get ample Documentation to start the profiles and eventually get referred to the MEB. <br />For your case, I would recommend having a meeting with your Commander and First Sergeant so they can immediately initiate the MEB/PEB. This could save you a few years of trying to get on the MEB yourself through extended profiles!!! <br /><br />Many Reserve commanders don&#39;t even know they have this Authority. But it could save them and yourself lots of time and effort. Just explain to them that being on a dead man&#39;s profile would leave the unit with you stuck in that position and not able to do your job... <br /><br />In my case, I had to use the profiles to start the MEB. This was a very arduous process, because you are not active duty, having it easy just going to the TMC whenever you want. Unfortunately, As a reservist you have to go to all the appointments in your local town. In my case, I had to make this my everyday job, to get on the MEB - as it took all my time getting all the documents together, going to all the appointments, &amp; making sure my profiles kept getting extended and not running out causing a break in the profiles which would force me to initiate the whole process to start over again... <br />Not to mention you don&#39;t get paid like active duty does while you&#39;re going through the MEB. <br />From start to finish, it took me two and a half years to get to the MEB &amp; another year to get through the MEB and be retired with the reserves.<br /><br />I knew A Lieutenant Colonel who just medically retired last year with the reserves that has been trying to get the Meb process completed and he said he started his and 2013!<br /><br />You won&#39;t need a &quot;lawyer&quot;. As soon as you&#39;re accepted to the MEB/PEB, JAG will give you a briefing and will assign you a Jag representative while you were going through the board process. They represented me good enough and I did not have to use outside DAV assistance.<br /><br />Again, this is a very different process being in the reserves as compared to the active-duty. If you have any questions just message me and I&#39;ll be happy to give you advice or help you any other way I can. <br />Keep at it brother! SFC Jake Middaugh Mon, 03 May 2021 13:48:42 -0400 2021-05-03T13:48:42-04:00 Response by SFC Gary (Bigsarge) Portier USARMY RET. made May 9 at 2021 9:12 AM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-steps-i-should-be-taking-to-ensure-i-get-a-med-board-or-should-i-just-hire-an-attorney-now?n=6961865&urlhash=6961865 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Complete Da Form 507 and submit, this is the starting Point. SFC Gary (Bigsarge) Portier USARMY RET. Sun, 09 May 2021 09:12:00 -0400 2021-05-09T09:12:00-04:00 2021-05-02T18:09:56-04:00