CORRECTED DIRECTIVE
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC

Office of the Assistant Secretary

AFBCMR BC-2013-05486
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF

This corrected directive hereby rescinds and replaces the previous directive on this matter, dated 16 April 2015, and is effective as of that date.

Having considered the recommendation of the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records, and under authority delegated by the Secretary, I direct the following corrections be made to all pertinent records of the Department of the Air Force concerning

On 2 February 2002, he was found physically unfit for military service due to left shoulder subluxation, permanently aggravated by military service, and that he was discharged with severance pay with a 20 percent disability rating and that the disability was non-combat related, under VASD code 5202, under the provisions of AFI 36-3212, Physical Evaluation for Retention, Retirement, and Separation, (Disability) with a Separation Program Designator (SPD) Code of JFO (Service initiated discharge in accordance with established directive, resulting from physical disability with non-combat related severance pay and entitlement).

This directive is effective immediately. In accordance with Section 1552(a)(4) of Title 10, United States Code, it is final and conclusive on all officers of the United States, who are required to take all necessary and appropriate action consistent with the corrections noted above and the attached Record of Proceedings (ROP).

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AIR FORCE EVALUATION:

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The BCMR Medical Consultant recommends granting qhe applicant's request to change his narrative reason for dischar to separation under Authority of AFI 36-3212, Physical Evaluatio for Retention, Retirement and Retention, by reason of se vice connected disability,  effective  2  Feb  02.   By  way  of   ackground,  the applicant sustained an injury while "working [an] aircraft, removing [a] heavy object [F-16 battery] and the tire weight of the object was caught on [the] way to [the] grou by [his] left shoulder. Then [an] episode [occurred] next morni , with shoulder being dislocated when he woke up. Wife pulled shoulder to  reduce shoulder."
The Medical Consultant interprets the term Defecti I Enlistment as having entered the military training with either a pre-existing shoulder instability or pre-existing exercise-in ced asthma or both; but either which could interfere with his ab ity to perform military service, regardless of career fiel This is  particularly relevant in the context of the physical requirements, and associated risks, to sus ain worldwide qualification for all service members; sparing no particular career field or service component. The app ant was not  physically fit for retention. While the Medical nsultant finds it odd that a presumed first time traumatic shoul r dislocation, caused by the weight of a heavy F-16 battery, wou result in an unremarkable Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) sea it could not be determined t, through clear and unmistakable ev'dence, that the applicant's subsequent episodes of dislocation, o predisposition for recurrence, were not representative of perma int aggravation beyond its expected natural progression. With respect to the applicant's asthma, the evidence is insufficient to establish a causal nexus with military service. In any case, this condition does not appear to have been the cause of career t  ination.

With respect to assigning the appropriate disabi the applicant's left shoulder subluxation, no serv' found indicating that he neither demonstrated "gua movements" nor evidence that he was left-hand domi Medical Consultant opines the applicant's disabili
have	fallen	short	of	the 3o	percent	required
medical retirement; qualifying only for discharge pay.	Additionally,		under Title 38, U.S.C., th Veterans Affairs (DVA) is authorized to offer comp medical		condition	determined	service	incurred without regard to its impact upon an individual's fitness to serve, or narrative reason for release f

ty rating for e evidence was ing of all arm nt.		Thus, the rating would qualify	for ith severance Department	of sation for any or	aggravated retainability,
om service.

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