New rules for Purple Heart.
The Military is asking those who were denied thier Purple Heart for TBI cases to resubmit for further review. The change is due to identify TBIs easier then it was in the past.
With medical advances in the treatment and knowledge of concussion and MTBI injuries, the Army has been able to further identify the characteristics of the unseen wound and clarify guidance for entitlement to the Purple Heart, said Col. Tom Quinn, chief of Soldiers Programs and Services Division at Army Human Resources Command.
“In the past, concussion or MTBI injuries were very hard to diagnose,” Quinn said. “Treatments varied and were not the same across the board and medical officers weren’t always documenting that information in the Soldier’s records.”
Those that are facing this issue can contact HRC. Just a reminder that there is no time limit on the Purple Heart.
For Purple Heart award reconsideration, the injury must have occurred on or after Sept. 11, 2001. Active-duty and Reserve Component Soldiers must work with their chains of command, through the first general officer, by submitting a copy of their deployment orders, various Department of Army forms, a one-page narrative describing the incident and the conditions under which the Soldier was wounded.
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I’m glad that some of these cases with tangible internal wounds are getting a second look. At the same time, standby for all the flood of BS Purple Hearts. As already stated TBI cases are historically hard to diagnose but what isn’t stated is the diagnosis process has expanded to include a broad array of psychological symptoms without any observable physiological markers. In other words people can submit that they have a TBI based on unfalsifiable symptoms. Same goes for PTSD; I have personally seen both being abused to score education money and VA disability and now I predict the same will happen with Purple Hearts and liekly more so due to the array of both material and social gain that can be had by being a recipient.
I would think that any TBI would shoe up on an MRI.
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