Navy Veterans Network

08/03/2026

Two Navy ratings. Seven jobs erased. Were you ghosted?! 🇺🇸⚓

Logistics Specialist (LS) absorbed Postal Clerk, Aviation Storekeeper, and Storekeeper — three ratings, one supergroup, formed in 2009.

Aviation Electronics Technician (AT) went even further — swallowing Aviation Electronicsman, Tradevsman, Aviation Fire Control Technician, and Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician over 36 years.

If you wore one of these patches, your job didn't disappear. It got absorbed into something bigger — and the Navy stopped calling it by name.

Were you PC, AK, SK, AL, TD, AQ, or AX? Comment your rate and the year it changed.

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07/26/2026

07/21/2026

🚨 GULF WAR VETERANS: 44% OF US HAVE THIS — AND MOST NEVER FILE 🚨

VA disability compensation. Gulf War Illness. Presumptive conditions. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Fibromyalgia. IBS. Unexplained joint pain. If any of that sounds familiar and you served in the Gulf War on or after August 2, 1990, you may already qualify for VA disability benefits — tax-free, monthly, for life.

⏰ The deadline to get your condition documented under current VA presumptive rules is December 31, 2026.

⚓ In this video: real 2026 VA compensation rates, how conditions stack into a combined disability rating, the exact deadline, and how to file a VA claim step by step.

Sources (also pinned in the comments):
🔗 VA disability compensation rates: https://www.va.gov/disability/compensation-rates/veteran-rates/
🔗 VA press release — Gulf War presumptive deadline: https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-extends-presumptive-period-for-persian-gulf-war-veterans/
🔗 How to file a VA disability claim: https://www.va.gov/disability/how-to-file-claim/

Tag a Gulf War veteran who needs to see this. Share it. Save it. This could be thousands of dollars a year they're not claiming.

— Dr. Mike Arana, Gulf War Veteran, USS Kittyhawk CV-63