On other hand  there are  some  doozies! After  back surgery  in Mar ’77  and  9  months  assigned  to Neurosurgery Ward  I finally  was  Disability Boarded out to  Temporary retired in  early  Oct.  Formal  stuff  under oath with counsel in Wilford  Hall Med Cntr  Court Room.  Rating   50%  as  that’s  all retired pay  you  can get under  20 years  retirement .  Some  later  VA had  me  report  to E Dallas. nearest  VA Hosp.  I, still limping in  year’s recovery, enter. MD starts  to fill out  form for  disability rating (60% at  time but  stuff  like  missing  ear  ups  you  some, but  just  a percentage  of  what’s  left . If  one  ear  gone ‘s  20%? Then that’s  20% 0f  rest  40%. OR  8%, TOTAL 68%  . Takes  2  50% to hit  75%.  STRANGE! Unless  in  Iron Lung? Way  to 100% is  declared unemployable  due  to disability.  Took 10 years  but  made  it a  decade  AFTER Social  Security gave  it  after  2  Admin Court  Hearings  in 1979.

So the skinny  Doc  says, “Wow, I just  ran 5  miles over  lunch and  I feel great. Should  try it!” I said if  you  look I’m out  of a  great  paying  job because  I can’t  climb  in a  cockpit  and  sit in a  seat a  few  hours. You want I should go out  for steeple  chase?   Gave  small “Oh yeah” and  we  got  back to how  bad off  I was  considered as VA Disability rating. Eventually my  VA Disability pay was  more than 50%  USAF retired  and  VA began paying  instead. But  by  then I’d  discovered  how  to make  $ in my  underwear and  didn’t mean as much.  Of  recent  tho, until Mexus  hits , still pays  the  rent now  she  aint  in sales and  expects all  in  the manner  to which accustomed . 8