{"id":23071,"date":"2011-04-25T14:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2011-04-25T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:46:01","slug":"more-marines-will-qualify-for-tbi-related-purple-heart-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23071","title":{"rendered":"More Marines will qualify for TBI-related Purple Heart Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/more-marines-now-eligible-to-receive-purple-heart-for-tbi-1.141923\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> article announcing that the Marines have changed their policy on awarding Purple Heart Medals related to traumatic brain injuries;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under a new fleetwide instruction, Marines who retain consciousness after a concussion may receive the medal if diagnosed by a medical officer as not fit for full duty \u201cdue to persistent signs, symptoms, or findings of functional impairment for a period greater than 48 hours from the time of the concussive incident.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>22,00 Marines have been classified as &#8220;mild&#8221; TBI victims and only 9,000 have been awarded the Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>A medal doesn&#8217;t cure TBI, of course, but at least those who are suffering will be recognized for their sacrifice &#8211; and that&#8217;s part of the healing process, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff sends us a link to the Stars and Stripes article announcing that the Marines have &hellip; <a title=\"More Marines will qualify for TBI-related Purple Heart Medals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23071\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Marines will qualify for TBI-related Purple Heart Medals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}