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How temporary LIMDU works in the Navy: the two 6-month periods, the 12-month cap, who places you on it, and the fit-for-duty decision that sends you back to work or into the MEB/PEB.
How the Navy DES works: MEB to PEB to disposition, the 30% rule, IDES vs legacy DES, TDRL vs PDRL, the appeal ladder, and the PLD off-ramp.
How Permanent Limited Duty (PLD) lets a sailor stay Navy after a PEB unfit finding: eligibility, the two-instruction billet nuance, the timeline, and how to request it.
Going through MEB/PEB doesn't automatically give you your VA rating. Here's how military medical separation and VA disability claims interact, and how to protect your benefits.
The documents you collect before your Medical Evaluation Board determine what conditions are evaluated and how strong your case is. Here's exactly what to gather and why.
CRDP restores retired pay offset for veterans with 50%+ VA ratings. Here's who qualifies, how much you receive, and how CRDP differs from CRSC.
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CRSC pays combat-disabled retirees both retirement pay and VA compensation, no offset. Who qualifies, how to apply, and how to estimate your monthly amount.
If your MEB or PEB findings are wrong, you have legal rights to appeal. Here's the full appeal process, from rebuttal to formal hearing to Board for Correction of Military Records.
If the PEB finds you unfit with a disability rating, you may land on the PDRL or TDRL. Here's what each means, how re-evaluations work, and how to move from TDRL to PDRL.
Your military disability rating and your VA disability rating come from different systems and can produce different numbers. Here's why that happens and what it means for your benefits.
A month-by-month breakdown of the Military Medical Evaluation Board timeline under IDES, what happens at each stage and where delays typically occur.
IDES vs Legacy DES: which one you're in changes your timeline, rating, and separation pay. How to tell them apart and what to expect at each stage.
How the MEB/PEB process works stage by stage, your rights at each step, and how to protect your disability rating through medical separation.