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Compassionate Discharge?

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Humble Scribe:541752 said:
SirSaltyHelmet said:
Suggest you read the first underlined bit again.

I had a compassionate discharge kicked out this week

Says to me you got it, taken with everything else you wrote it made it look like you had been booted out against your will.
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I agree with Sir Salty; that's how I read it first.
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To be honest I was also confused, was he appealing AGAINST an unwanted discharge or FOR a discharge that had not been granted!

OP, for what it is worth if you really want out quick PVR, if it is just simple answers you want, better off with Google!
 
Little Tronk said:
To be honest I was also confused, was he appealing AGAINST an unwanted discharge or FOR a discharge that had not been granted!

OP, for what it is worth if you really want out quick PVR, if it is just simple answers you want, better off with Google!
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Why bother? Reading through the OP's posts all he does is kick off if someone doesn't understand his barely literate question.

Seems like a fecking chod IMHO.
 
OP - Please answer the questions:

What advantage does a compassionate discharge give you over PVR?

How long so far have you spent going down the Compassionate Route?

How long is your PVR Waiting Time?

How much additional time will you spend in a job that is not suitable for your family circumstances due to your insistance of going through a lengthy process that does not come with a guarranteed result in your favour?
 
To be awarded any type of preferential treatment a case must meet SISDAH, severe injury, severe distress and or hardship: a compassionate discharge may be considered to fall under that category. The process is simple, gather your evidence (e.g. Padre, SSAFA, Medical etc), write a statement detailing why one wishes preferential treatment and submit to PSF. The Chief Clerk/WO PMS will review the case, make a recommendation for the CO's comment and then forward to Air Cmd. What the OP must remember is that:

1. Casework can only make a decision based on the evidence presented.
2. Whilst he is intimately and emotionally involved in the situation, Casework are not.

The options are as previous posters have suggested, PVR, represent the case with more compelling evidence or do nothing.
 
If the compassionate case was close but not quite enough, I reckon a PVR with a early exit date will most probably be supported and granted.
 
Would PVRing be classed as making yourself voluntarily unemployed and as such not eligible for benefits? Where as being discharged would not and as such make you eligible for benefits.
 
So this has to do with your wife going or about to go or having gone wibble? And you want out. Why not get her sectioned, she gets put in the nut house and gets treatment!
 
Dave-exfairy said:
So this has to do with your wife going or about to go or having gone wibble? And you want out. Why not get her sectioned, she gets put in the nut house and gets treatment!
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lol, i'm hunting out a nice pair of y-fronts and some sharpened pencils!

Woody, nothing to do with benefits, happy to work.:PDT_Xtremez_26:

Kingguin, thank you, I had dr's letters, physco letters, sqn leader approved, stn cdr agreed, saafa agreed, however casework people didn't!!!!:apologetic:

Kinguin are psf?
 
bigtexo said:
lol, i'm hunting out a nice pair of y-fronts and some sharpened pencils!

Woody, nothing to do with benefits, happy to work.:PDT_Xtremez_26:

Kingguin, thank you, I had dr's letters, physco letters, sqn leader approved, stn cdr agreed, saafa agreed, however casework people didn't!!!!:apologetic:

Kinguin are psf?
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As with most of the rest on here I don't see why you NEED a compassionate when a PVR would work just as well, Compassionate sounds like something left over from the good old days of National Service to me when you might have a good reason to not complete what was a legal requirement, whereas you can pretty much leave at any point using the PVR which would make life easier for you especially at a time you say is already stressful enough rather than keep banging your head against the brick wall you've discovered.
 
KingGuin said:
Yep, PSF. Where my clerks and I try daily (when we are actually open) to feck everything up merely to live down to the Goaters expectations!
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hang on i meant, command/casework, not psf.:uncomfortableness:
 
ok then, the other bit i'm "hiding" is an ooa to mussanha. yep, the holiday camp which if things were ok with my wife would be fine. i have done 2 full tours to iraq so war dodging isn't my thing. and to be honest i put this place down as i didn't want the falklands.
so there you have it, please vultures feel free to assume the worst of me and rip me apart.

I know pvr'ing is easiest, im not wanting benefits, i just to be a husband to my wife, who is struggling massively, who has had deppresion nearly ten years, and has gone downhill rapid over the last 3-4 months and has pleaded with me to come out and live at home. (my house is 190 miles from camp) my nearest camp is 70 miles. my oldest is settled in primary school. my newborn is 8 weeks.

simples!!!
 
bigtexo said:
ok then, the other bit i'm "hiding" is an ooa to mussanha. yep, the holiday camp which if things were ok with my wife would be fine. i have done 2 full tours to iraq so war dodging isn't my thing. and to be honest i put this place down as i didn't want the falklands.
so there you have it, please vultures feel free to assume the worst of me and rip me apart.

I know pvr'ing is easiest, im not wanting benefits, i just to be a husband to my wife, who is struggling massively, who has had deppresion nearly ten years, and has gone downhill rapid over the last 3-4 months and has pleaded with me to come out and live at home. (my house is 190 miles from camp) my nearest camp is 70 miles. my oldest is settled in primary school. my newborn is 8 weeks.

simples!!!
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That makes sense now, and I certainly won't slate you for that mate and I would like to think nobody else will either. I would think your best bet would be as mentioned, the Padre, and an onside Chief Clerk would help too.

Don't get too fixated on finding the compassionate discharge rules and relying on them to get you out without the OOA, an onside boss and PSF are much more likely to get you what you need.

Best of luck.
 
Weebl said:
That makes sense now, and I certainly won't slate you for that mate and I would like to think nobody else will either. I would think your best bet would be as mentioned, the Padre, and an onside Chief Clerk would help too.

Don't get too fixated on finding the compassionate discharge rules and relying on them to get you out without the OOA, an onside boss and PSF are much more likely to get you what you need.

Best of luck.
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its not something i wanted talk on an open forum, but i've said it now. everyone is on my side psf,saafa, civvy docs,co etc, the casework got put to command and got told bugger off. hence why i wanted to see the ap about how/who makes the big call, and how to appeal/progress etc.
 
PVR and then develop a glass back or go wibble yourself.

Musanah is a fairly decent tour with minimal prep required so although someone else will have to pick up the slack and thats a bit pants, thats why we get a ready to move date on assignment orders. Your priority needs to be your Mrs and the wee ones.

You tried the correct routes and they have failed for you. Now you need to play the system. 😉
 
Bigtexo, now you have alluded to the problem more, you may find some helpful advice coming your way - here's my twopennoth:

As part of your OOA prep, your Flt Cdr has to sign to say whether this OOA will make you an Admin Burden. I'm guessing as you have been recommended for a Compassionate Discharge by your Stn Cdr, your Flt Cdr and everyone at your unit should be pretty unanimous in that this OOA WILL make you an admin burden, due to the mental health of your wife. I would guess that it would take a drafter with big balls to still make you go OOA when your wife could flip at any moment...

Good Luck in the Future.
 
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