[2025] UKUT 037 (AAC)

The Appellant is now aged 45. He served in the Royal Air Force between 1979 and 2017. He had deployed to Afghanistan and also as a Reaper pilot working out of Las Vegas, USA. His rank on discharge was Flight Lieutenant and he had served as a fast jet pilot, instructor and examiner. The Veterans UK decision-maker, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence, decided that the Appellant was entitled to an AFCS award on the basis of his PTSD at Table 3, Item 3, Level 10 of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 (SI 2011/517, ‘the 2011 Order’). The Appellant, arguing that he qualified for an award for PTSD at either Table 3, Item 2, Level 8 or Table 3, Item 1, Level 6, appealed to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, which refused his appeal. The Appellant now appeals to the Upper Tribunal against the decision of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal (‘the Tribunal’).