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I was Medically retired in 2001 in Texas.At the time of retirement my DD Form 214 states that my completed time of service was 18 years,11 months. My question is that i've been asked by a number of other retirees as to why i wasn't grandfather with the time of service i pocessed? So is there such an animal,and how can i find out more information concerning this possible policy or regulation?

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for Active duty, if you were medically retired, that means you could not do your duty without medical being an issue, which means you were non-deployable to a comabt zone.  If you cannot deploy to a combat zone, you are discharged, if you have enough years of service ( I don't know the magic number) then you can retire with benefits.  

What they are referring to it the "lock in" with service members over 18 years, they can't discharge you, but they can retire you, which they did.  I have seen medically retired at 15 years, so yours would not be unusual by any means.

before you were retired, it went thru a review panel to make sure that your paperwork was correct, and I assume you have at least 60% disability.

Follow up if you need to.  

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