Fighting to stay blue after injury, illness
Nobody blames the sergeant. Flowers David if he wanted to leave the Air Force.
He lost his right leg two years ago when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan. His left one was severely damaged. One arm was broken in four places. He had 29 operations and months of rehabilitation.
Yet it is not going anywhere.
"Separation from the Air Force is not what I wanted," said Flowers, an explosive ordnance disposal technician. "I worked hard to get where I was, and after seven and a half years, it was not enough for me."
Flowers is one of thousands of airmen injured in battle or strike with an unexpected illness who faced a council disability in the past decade. Since 9 / 11, the number of formal assessments of disability has doubled - from 3,200 to nearly 6,000 in 2010.
About 10 percent of injuries and illnesses are related to combat. Many are indirectly related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and requirements of the new fitness test, according to Lt. Col. Lorianne Hodge, Deputy Chief of the Air Force Physical Disability Division.Orthopedic injuries such as back pain and knee thing, are the most common, she said.
"We use a lot more members because of the increased operational tempo and increased use of Guard and Reserve," said Hodge. "There is a little more wear and tear and stress on the body."
StepsThe evaluation system of disabled people is a formal process for the Air Force to determine if a pilot is fit for service after illness or injury affects his job performance.
First, a physician refers the aviator to a board of medical evaluation, according to the Air Force.The three doctors who make up the board to investigate condition of the aviator and either allow the pilot to return to work or refer him to another panel called an informal physical evaluation board.
BEPI members - two doctors and a personnel officer - to a record review only and may be one of several recommendations, including the discharge, discharge with severance pay or temporary disability retirement pay. If the airman does not agree with their recommendation, a formal evaluation board of physical or FPEB is convened within 30 days.
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When he faced the prospect of an MEB, he wondered whether the Air Force would even keep him. “I thought it was a scary process,” Downing said. “Those timelines can be pretty quick. It's like I'm in the Air Force one day and then I'm not — in 30 days.
Braaten pointed out that the Osprey can be launched well ahead of the MAGTF to complete certain missions, such as the tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel that occurred in Libya when an Air Force aircraft crashed due to technical problems.
“I love San Francisco,” said Spiese, the commander for 1st MEB and deputy commanding general of I Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine force based in southern California. “It's a great city, so the opportunity to be up there, wearing the uniform is
“We're not tied to a standard organization or have to force things into a mission or deployment that have no role. We only take those things we need and leave what we don't need behind,” said Maj. Gen. Melvin Spiese, commanding general of the 1st MEB.
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