MILITARY

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From 1975 to 2014, Petitioner David Babcock (“Babcock”) was employed as a National Guard dual-status technician. Babcock v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec. at 1–2. A dual-status technician, under 10 U.S.C. § 10216(a)(1) and 32 U.S.C. § 709(e), is “‘a [f]ederal...

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The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (“VA”) administers a federal program that provides disability benefits to United States military veterans. See George v. McDonough at 1229. The VA does not give benefits to veterans for disabilities which existed...

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Appellee James Rudisill (“Rudisill”) is a veteran who served in active–duty three separate times, amounting to almost 8 years of active service between 2000 and 2011. Rudisill v. McDonough (“Rudisill”) at 3. Rudisill’s service from 2000 to 2002...

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In 2011, the Ohio National Guard (“the Guard”) signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”) with the American Federation of Government Employees (“the Union”), the union that represents the Guard’s technicians. The Ohio Adjutant General’s Dept., et...