Oh, I'm sure he was a sergeant, but you're only "retired" if you served 20 years.
If he got hurt while active he was probably medically seperated under honorable conditions. If he just did four to six years and then got our, he could still get disability from the VA. That's what I did. Four years, two combat tours. Got blown up in Afghanistan but didn't lost any limbs or anything, just got thrown and hit my head very hard.
After I was honorably discharged I developed a seizure disorder from an undiagnosed Traumatic Brain Injury. Now I'm 100% disabled. But I'm not "retired."
Also, don't let the title "disabled veteran" make you immediately think, "War Hero." Chances are good it's not. You get like a 30% rating for PTSD just by virtue of asking for it. If you have a Combat Action Ribbon you'll get a 50% rating just for PTSD almost whether you claim it or not.
But some bitch buying Starbucks on Camp Dwyer in Afghanistan that heard a gunshot in the distance (which would have been Marines zeroing in their optics) she could come back home, claim PTSD, and label herself a disabled veteran even though she was a refrigeration technician who never took their rifle out of the armory more than twice a year and never on a deployment.
you're only "retired" if you served 20 years
If you served at all, you know that's not true, dude. Medical retirement is a thing, don't pretend otherwise.
https://tricare.mil/LifeEvents/Retiring/MedicalRetirement
DoD Directive 1332.18: SEPARATION OR RETIREMENT FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY
Permanent disability retirement occurs if the member is found unfit, the disability is determined permanent and stable and rated at a minimum of 30%
Stop being a gatekeeping faggot. You're playing a game of semantics over your personal opinion about the word "retired."
A medical "retirement" is not "retirement." Don't be a dink. He wouldn't sign his name, "Sgt Whatever, US Army Ret."
He's considered medically seperated because he's under 20 years you fucking illiterate dink. If he had OVER 20 years and had a medical condition that precluded him from active duty THEN he would be medically retired. Do you not understand the difference between seperation and retirement?
If he had OVER 20 years and had a medical condition
It's not AND, it's OR, per the wording of the fucking rules you think you understand.
20 years service IS NOT A REQUIRMENT for medical RETIREMENT.
Retirement DOES NOT exclusively mean "spent two decades doing this and stepped out with a lifetime paycheck."
Literal definition of RETIREMENT is withdrawal from one's position.
MEDICAL RETIREMENT is a withdrawal from one's position due to MEDICAL REASONS, and it DOES NOT require having served 20 years. You are WRONG and playing a fucking gate-keeping semantics game over "separated" vs "retired."
Do you not understand the difference between seperation and retirement?
Do YOU, nigger?
https://militarybenefits.info/medical-disability-retirement/
Medical disability retirement – 20 years of active service is not required
Those with less than 20 years of active service and who have been awarded a disability rating of 30 percent (or higher) technically qualify for medical retirement.
There is an important difference between being medically retired and being involuntarily separated from the military because of a medical condition. “Retirement” involves retirement pay, the “separation” option does NOT.
You are RETIRED if you are granted RETIREMENT classification and pay, regardless of the amount of time you spent enlisted.
You're wrong you dumb motherfucker, you stepped on your dick and didn't know the finer points of what the fuck you were talking about, just take the loss like a man you dumb shit.
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