battle, but not the war
Well, we won the first battle. He has proven that he has a case. That means that now he doesn't have to report on May 18. Instead, there's a council that is looking at our evidence to decide what, if anything, to grant him. They say it'll take 35-65 days and then they'll let us know what the decision is. Either he'll be ordered to report, he'll be given a delay, or he'll be given an exemption.
We have pretty solid reasons why he shouldn't have to report. First of all, he's a student and only has a year left. If he has to take a year off of school, when he returns, he'll likely have to start all over again because of the requirements in the computer industry to have up to date classes. At the very least his advisor has stated that he'll have to take some classes over again. Which means that he'll use up over his allotment of the GI Bill, and frankly it's not fair that we'd have to pay for the school they promised just because they order him back.
The other thing is the one that scares me. His feet are messed up and it's because of the military that they are. He was on a running restriction for most of the time that I knew him in the army. That means he wasn't allowed to run. What skill you do think is SLIGHTLY necessary in Iraq? RUNNING. So we have a letter from the VA that says "we acknowledge that this injury is caused by military service" and we have a letter from a podiatrist saying "he needs surgery before he can do anything." So what it's going to come down to is: A) them ignoring that. B) Them telling him to get surgery (at which point a fight ensues...they have to pay for it, it was caused by the military) or C) they tell him to forget it. Pray for C.
We have pretty solid reasons why he shouldn't have to report. First of all, he's a student and only has a year left. If he has to take a year off of school, when he returns, he'll likely have to start all over again because of the requirements in the computer industry to have up to date classes. At the very least his advisor has stated that he'll have to take some classes over again. Which means that he'll use up over his allotment of the GI Bill, and frankly it's not fair that we'd have to pay for the school they promised just because they order him back.
The other thing is the one that scares me. His feet are messed up and it's because of the military that they are. He was on a running restriction for most of the time that I knew him in the army. That means he wasn't allowed to run. What skill you do think is SLIGHTLY necessary in Iraq? RUNNING. So we have a letter from the VA that says "we acknowledge that this injury is caused by military service" and we have a letter from a podiatrist saying "he needs surgery before he can do anything." So what it's going to come down to is: A) them ignoring that. B) Them telling him to get surgery (at which point a fight ensues...they have to pay for it, it was caused by the military) or C) they tell him to forget it. Pray for C.