I hate my job!

[Sgt PSN]

I just got diognosed with sleep apnea.  The obvious down side is I have to get a CPAP mask (MOCK!).  The positive is that sleep apnea alone is a 50% disability rating from the VA.  I was already looking at 40-50% disability to begin with so I'm thinking that all together I should be looking at about 70% total, which will make my disability income just a couple hundred bucks less per month than what my retirement pension would be if I were able to reenlist and stay in to hit 20 years of service. 

So it looks like I'll get similar financial compensation for my service and won't have to put up with the same day to day bullshtein for the next 3 years.  Choke on that Uncle Sam.   

[Tomahawk]

Only fat people have sleep apnea, Sgt Reid

[rjs246]

farging sleep apnea gets a 50% disability rating? Give me a goddamned break.

[Sgt PSN]

I said you could mock, not hate.  Hater.

[SD]

farging sleep apnea gets a 50% disability rating? Give me a goddamned break.

Not always...and as far as your rating goes remember it's not the total of the %'s they grant you, here's how they explain it on our index:

Combined Evaluation Calculated (Mandatory)
We don't add your individual disability percentages to determine your combined percentage. We use a table from our regulations. This table is based on the "whole person theory." This means that an individual with no disabilities is 100 percent able. The table reduces this total ability by the percentage of your most disabling or highest rated condition, then by the next, and the next, etc. Let me give you an example:

Let's say you have a 70% disability and a separate 10% disability. We first consider your 70% disability because it is the highest rated condition. For VA purposes, you are then considered 30% healthy. Then we include your 10% disability by calculating 10% of 30%, which is 3% (10% of 30 is 3). We then add 70 and 3, which is 73% and round down to 70%.

If your second disability were 20% instead of 10%, we would add 6% (20% of 30 is 6). We would then add 70 and 6, which is 76% and round up to 80%.

Remember, tinitus is an automatic 10%.

[rjs246]

According to the table from my regulations that shtein is 100% retarded.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Untreated sleep apnea sounds like a disability. The treatment (CPAP) is easy and relatively inexpensive...and it totally mitigates the problem (and the disability).

[Sgt PSN]

Untreated sleep apnea sounds like a disability. The treatment (CPAP) is easy and relatively inexpensive...and it totally mitigates the problem (and the disability).

True as this may be, the "disability" is having the machine/mask in the first place. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

It's also a joke if that's the case.

[Sgt PSN]

The joke is your tax dollars going into my wallet. 

[Sgt PSN]

I have no doubt that my mostly unfounded Jersey hating is going to end with me ultimately finding a job in and moving to the Garden State.  Maybe I should have been hating on Hawaii all these years instead.  On the other hand, good thing I haven't been bad mouthing Alabama 

I should be a farging profit. 

Update on the job front:  The Marine Corps has seriously been yanking my chain over the last year.  First I was going to San Diego, then I was denied reenlistment and told I have to separate.  Then last week I found out that I am being granted reenlistment and that I would find out my next duty assignment today.  I just got off the phone with my monitor (he's the guy who controls where everyone goes in my job field) and he told me that I'm going to McGwire AFB in New farging Jersey. 

All in all, I'm excited about it.  Going to get my 20 and retire after all and while I'm not thrilled about the idea of living so close to Trenton, the pros far outweigh the cons.  Steady paycheck, retirement, close to Philly and I don't have to pump my own gas for the next 3 years.  I'll take it.  And I move in Sept so I'll be there just in time for football season.  You bitches better have tix for me. 

[Rome]

Hopefully there will be a nuclear war and we'll all die before September.

[Sgt PSN]

That's an acceptable alternative. 

[reese125]

I have no doubt that my mostly unfounded Jersey hating is going to end with me ultimately finding a job in and moving to the Garden State.  Maybe I should have been hating on Hawaii all these years instead.  On the other hand, good thing I haven't been bad mouthing Alabama 

I should be a farging profit. 

Update on the job front:  The Marine Corps has seriously been yanking my chain over the last year.  First I was going to San Diego, then I was denied reenlistment and told I have to separate.  Then last week I found out that I am being granted reenlistment and that I would find out my next duty assignment today.  I just got off the phone with my monitor (he's the guy who controls where everyone goes in my job field) and he told me that I'm going to McGwire AFB in New farging Jersey. 

All in all, I'm excited about it.  Going to get my 20 and retire after all and while I'm not thrilled about the idea of living so close to Trenton, the pros far outweigh the cons.  Steady paycheck, retirement, close to Philly and I don't have to pump my own gas for the next 3 years.  I'll take it.  And I move in Sept so I'll be there just in time for football season.  You bitches better have tix for me.

Before rjs gets an erection I'll let you know first that you shouldn't be a "profit"-you should be a prophet

[Sgt PSN]

Thanks Hitler.  I've got so much shtein going through my mind right now.  I'm still a little jittery and amped from the dramatic turn.  Really, over the last 2 years I've thought my career was ending.  Once was for medical reasons and most recently because of manpower cutbacks.  I need to calm myself down a bit until I swear in again, because until I do that then I really shouldn't be taking anything for granted.