{"id":80944,"date":"2018-08-02T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80944"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:51","slug":"defense-department-modifies-deploy-or-get-out-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80944","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department modifies “Deploy or get out” policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military Times<\/a> is reporting the new changes to the Defense Department’s “Deploy or get out instruction” .<\/p>\n

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Service members wounded in combat will be exempt from the Defense Department\u2019s new policy to\u00a0be deployable in 12 months or face separation\u00a0<\/a>from the military, the Pentagon announced this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The policy tweak came after criticism that DoD was going to remove personnel who were only in non-deployable status because of their combat injuries, when the overall goal of the program was to target the thousands of military personnel who for fitness, health or other administrative reasons have not been deployable. The initiative is part of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ effort to improve the lethality and readiness of the services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cService members whose injuries were the result of hostile action, meet the criteria for awarding of the Purple Heart, and whose injuries were not the result of their own misconduct\u201d are approved for retention, DoD said in its\u00a0July 30 policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The DoD Instruction is available HERE<\/a> in its entirety.\u00a0 \u00a0They list the exceptions as follows:<\/p>\n

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1. Combat wounded.<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThese are service members whose injuries were the result of hostile action, meet the criteria for awarding of the Purple Heart, and whose injuries were not the result of their own misconduct.\u201d The policy goes on to say that \u201cdisapproval of retention for non-deployable combat wounded service members, who wish to be retained and whose reason for non-deployability is a direct result of their combat wounds, may not be delegated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2. Pregnant and post-partum service members.<\/b>\u00a0Females are exempt for pregnancy-related health conditions during pregnancy through the post-partum period. Under the\u00a0policy<\/a>, pregnancy is considered a temporary non-deployable status, and the duration of that status after childbirth is left to the individual service secretaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3. Case-by-case exemptions.<\/b>\u00a0The service secretaries may grant exemptions on a case-by-case basis if the service member is filling in a specific position critical to the service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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4. Soon-to-retire.<\/b>\u00a0The service secretaries may grant exemptions for active duty service members who are three years away from regular retirement, or reserve component personnel who have accumulated 17 years of reserve service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So now people can stay in the military without deploying just because they are missing a few body parts.\u00a0 \u00a0And, am I the only one that sees the injustice in merely being pregnant as some kind of excuse for not deploying?\u00a0 It all seems a bit soft, why I can remember when…<\/p>\n

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