Originally Posted by
LowSlowT2
Don't discount the value of "service related" disability with no compensation. What that means is you currently aren't hampered/disabled by your service-related injuries. If, in the future, you develop other problems related to these previously identified areas, you can then refile and claim VA disability.
While that doesn't help you get a job right now, it doesn't mean what you've got is worthless.
On a slight tangent, with the new laws allowing federal agencies to share information with the FAA, is having VA disability good for those of us with first class medicals? Or is this a pandora's box of potential liability from the FAA AME perspective? In other words, we're holding ourselves out as "fit to fly" and yet we may be receiving disability for hearing, or eyesight, or some other service-related disability?
I'm not sure about this sharing of information that you are talking about, but when I went through the process it was against the law for them to ask you what your disability was - though there was a form that you could voluntarily fill out identifying your disability for a bean counter's sake and their love of statistics I guess.
Hearing is a fair example. Your hearing might have been damaged in the military - this equals disability compensation; but you can hear well enough to pass the 1st class physical = no problem with the medical.
What ever the military broke on you while on duty and however much the law (VA) has decided they own you for breaking you on duty - if you can still pass the medical standards for the 1st class then it shouldn't be a problem.
That is the way I understand it.
USMCFLYR