Depends on who issues the disability rating.

If you are injured in the service and are discharged from the service as a result, and they injury is over a certain percentage (I beleive %30) you can be medically retired. In this circumstance, you would be retired from the service and entitled to a percentage of retired pay based on your percentage of disability.

SO, the above applies to disability ratings given by the military.


Now, if you are discharged (NOT retired) from the military and then go to the VA, who in turn issue you a disability rating, you would be entitled to treatment for that disability, and perhaps compensation, but you would not be entitled to retirement benefits.

HOWEVER, Veterans classified as 100 percent disabled are entitled to use military commissaries, exchanges and theaters, as are their spouses and any children living with them. However, they are not eligible for military medical care; VA assumes that responsibility. This sounds like your situation. You are not retired military, but you have the majority of the benefits that retired military rate.




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If you have been discharged from the military, you can not get the title "military retired" unless you are retired from the military...you can not take your VA disability and turn that into a military retirement.

Sorry to bear bad news.

Now, theoretically, you could petition the board of records corrections to put you back in the military...if you could show that your discharge was erroneous...then you could apply for retired disabled...but unless there was an error in that process, you will have a difficult time doing this.

No, the VA rating is different from the military rating