#medboard

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Today's yaouri is Medkit x Skateboard // Skatekit ^_^

I answered most of these questions in my FAQ, but as for the remaining questions:What are the implications of being medically discharged from the military?: Well, practically speaking, being a disabled vet guarantees you access to VA healthcare for the rest of your life, and that includes any other additional illnesses/injuries you develop throughout your life that are unrelated to your disability. Depending on your wounds you’ll receive a flat percentage of disability from the army for the rest of your life. This percentage includes mental illness so if he developed depression/PTSD after the injury, he would receive disability for both the leg wound and the mental illness. Soldiers tend to look down on those who are being medboarded, but usually being a combat vet helps alleviate some of the judgment, especially from those close to the soldier. But it can be especially hard on a soldier who makes the choice to separate. There will be times when an injury is on the cusp of being severe enough and not being severe enough, and the army wants to know whether you want to stay active duty and continue to recover with the intent of returning to service, or if you just want to get out and tend to your injuries. They take your desires into account. If you choose the latter, it can often be seen as the soldier giving up or being too weak, which has negative implications. One might lie and claim the medboard didn’t give them the choice to save face in this circumstance.When you GET OUT of the army, suddenly your mental health and physical health are extremely important, and civilians tend to exonerate disabled vets from their feelings about the military and go full pity-respect mode, which can be exhausting for a vet enough that they’d want to hide their disability.Is it considered honorable?: officially, yes. You will receive an honorable discharge for this separation. Informally, receiving a discharge due to a combat injury tends to be an acceptable way to separate, but some asshats out there will say “you got shot in the leg? I got shot in the ENTIRE EVERYTHING and I’m still here!!!” because that’s just army culture. Alternatively, if the way the soldier got shot was “their own fault,” that might bleed into how other service members feel about their discharge.Purple Hearts: are only issued to combat injuries. Simply being shot in Afghanistan isn’t an automatic award. Wiki has a good sum up of what qualifies you for a PH:Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an enemy of the United States; any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged; while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; as a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces; or as the result of an act of any hostile foreign force.So as long as the situation is covered in that paragraph then he probably gets a Purple Heart out of it.

-Kingsley