Health is affecting military duty
Focus on treatment and documentation, duty restrictions, the medical-evaluation process, your rights, and what the next formal stage means.
Continue to medical disability →MDN FREE NAVIGATOR — FOUNDING PUBLIC BETA
Start with your situation.
You do not need to know which agency or acronym owns the answer. Start with what is happening now. MDN will help you identify what matters next and where an official source or qualified professional should take over.
Privacy note: No account is required, and your Free Navigator selection is not transmitted to analytics.
QUICK START
Where are you right now?
Choose the situation that is closest. You can browse every pathway below if none fits exactly.
BROWSE THE WHOLE MAP
Everything starts with the problem in front of you.
Use these pathways to orient yourself first. MDN connects the free pathways to official-source-backed knowledge, then keeps the separate private tools optional when deeper organization would help.
Separating or retiring
Focus on records, transition milestones, VA timing, health-care handoff, retirement decisions, family effects, and benefits that may have time limits.
Continue to transition →VA claim or decision
Focus on claim stage, evidence categories, C&P exams, DBQs, decision wording, review lanes, deadlines, and accredited help when needed.
Continue to VA claims →Multiple conditions
Keep distinct conditions separate while looking for missing terminology, evidence categories, duty impact, and questions that still need an official or medical answer.
Optional: use Condition Engine →Medically separated or retired
Focus on Chapter 61 status, VA compensation, retired pay, CRDP/CRSC, TRICARE, records, and the benefits that activate after separation or retirement.
Continue to retirement & pay →Family, caregiver, dependent, or survivor
Focus on the person's relationship to the service member or Veteran, current status, life event, health coverage, education, survivor, caregiver, and records pathways.
Browse family-relevant benefits →Prior service, branch/component changes, broken service, or record mismatches
Map each service period separately, preserve breaks in service, and flag name or record continuity problems before relying on eligibility results.
Check service-history continuity →What benefits or services may be relevant?
Browse programs by category and audience, see which eligibility factors matter, and verify at the official source.
Open Benefits & Services Registry →HOW TO USE MDN FREE
Learn first. Verify. Then act.
1. Find your stage
Start with where you are today rather than guessing which program name applies.
2. Reconcile service history
If prior service, component changes, broken service, name changes, or record conflicts exist, preserve those differences instead of blending them into one record.
3. Verify and act
Use the linked official source or qualified professional when MDN reaches the boundary of education and navigation.
OPTIONAL DEEPER ORGANIZATION
Private MDN tools
The tools below open the separate MDN application. Use them when deeper browser-based organization would help; they are not required to use MDN Free.
You are leaving the public website.No account is required. Do not enter SSNs, DoD IDs, VA claim numbers, addresses, or other unnecessary identifiers.
PROCESS
Process Navigator
Build a private roadmap around where you are in the disability process, your conditions, the evidence you have, and what comes next.
Open private Process Navigator ↗CLAIMS
Claim Alignment
Compare how a condition is described across referral, medical, examination/DBQ, and decision wording without telling you what to claim.
Open private Claim Alignment ↗CONDITIONS
Condition Engine
Organize terminology, evidence categories, duty impact, and questions across multiple conditions while keeping distinct conditions separate.
Open private Condition Engine ↗Found something wrong, confusing, missing, or broken?Report the product problem without sending private medical or claim information.