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Soldiers with disabilities have been returning to active duty in increasing numbers due largely to the fact that medical advances today are ensuring more people survive serious war injuries. All branches of the U.S. armed forces over the past decade have started offering the opportunity for seriously wounded or disabled service members to remain on active duty by finding them jobs they can perform.
Today about 300 seriously wounded service members — some of whom have been blinded by blasts, lost their limbs or have severe head injuries — work in a variety of Army positions, and their work has been vital, especially in aiding other recovering troops, said Erich Langer, a spokesman with the Army's Warrior Transition Command in Alexandria, Va.
Some have even returned to war zones.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
This whole thing is a disgrace I certainly hope the army does something about. It isn't often they likely see people FIGHTING to enlist and the army could surely make room. I've been told repeatedly that the U.S. Army has just about every job any population or small city has. Can't a deaf person serve in there somewhere??edit on 21-8-2011 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by HomerinNC
if youre in the military, you have to be COMBAT CAPABLE, being he is deaf, unfortunately he is not combat capable
Originally posted by HomerinNC
if youre in the military, you have to be COMBAT CAPABLE, being he is deaf, unfortunately he is not combat capable
The helicopters traversed Mohmand, one of Pakistan’s seven tribal areas, skirted the north of Peshawar, and continued due east. The commander of DEVGRU’s Red Squadron, whom I will call James, sat on the floor, squeezed among ten other SEALs, Ahmed, and Cairo. (The names of all the covert operators mentioned in this story have been changed.) James, a broad-chested man in his late thirties, does not have the lithe swimmer’s frame that one might expect of a SEAL—he is built more like a discus thrower. That night, he wore a shirt and trousers in Desert Digital Camouflage, and carried a silenced Sig Sauer P226 pistol, along with extra ammunition; a CamelBak, for hydration; and gel shots, for endurance. He held a short-barrel, silenced M4 rifle. (Others SEALs had chosen the Heckler & Koch MP7.) A “blowout kit,” for treating field trauma, was tucked into the small of James’s back. Stuffed into one of his pockets was a laminated gridded map of the compound. In another pocket was a booklet with photographs and physical descriptions of the people suspected of being inside. He wore a noise-cancelling headset, which blocked out nearly everything besides his heartbeat.
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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Why not give the guy a position on a stateside base or in the Army's P.R. side. Heck, how about as a translator in the recruiting command? Some recruits have deaf parents...right? For a guy who worked as hard to be given a chance as he did, what harm can there be in giving it to him?
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
However, they should be allowed in to learn a few things about the military then take positions where they can be very useful like intel and such.
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
Basically ADA law states that ANYONE with disability cannot be denied access.