Can someone with a permanent medical profile be deployed?

Question

My son in law and 20 others with a permanent profile (medical) and listed non deployable have been told today they will be deployed to Iraq on January 20th. This was decided by their commander at Fort Bragg. There is a big meeting going on right now by the person in charge there of medical profiles. She says it can't be done. I"m confused. Help.

My son in law is with the 82nd Airborn. During a poorly planned nite jump he injured his spine. I didn't realise this was a perment injury until after seeing several neuro Surgeons. The other guys landed in trees and broke an arm and leg ect. He was a mechanic but because of all the harassment about the medical discharge he has been dropped to private so I"m not sure what he does. The last surgeon got mad at the sargents and listed perment profile because they had him jogging, doing weights ect. He is always in pain now and doesn't want to get hooked on pain meds. I hope this helps. Thanks

Answer 1

I don't have a profile, but I agree with her. Unless, there are certain limitations in your profile, you can still be sent. You may be in the rear while over there.

Answer 2

Can't speak for the Army, but I can speak for the Air Force -- Any airman with a permanent medical profile is not qualified for worldwide duty and cannot be deployed. Furthermore, in the Air Force the commander does not have the authority to deploy someone who is on any type of medical profile -- the airman has to be medically cleared by the flight surgeon before he/she would be allowed to deploy and NO ONE can override the flight surgeon's decision.

Answer 3

The problems is with the Commander not knowing the rules and the Army doctors are not helping either because they are scared of repercussions or damage their careers. With the Navy, they listen to their doctors and they do not deploy their people until they are fully functional. I have dealt with the Army before and their rules are much different than the Navy. I have seen these profiles and they are pretty extensive and it explains what and what they can/can not do. I agree, he can deploy if he's doing some kind of desk job or he's all the way in the rear.

Answer 4

He shouldnt be deployed Non deployable means just that. His profile should say what he can or cant do. If he sticks to that he cant get in trouble. If he is getting harassed tell him to go to MEO or the IG, or get a civilian lawyer. Also have him get a non military doctors opinion.

Answer 5

It depends on the profile. Generally any kind of a permanent profile that makes a soldier nondeployable also makes that soldier 'physically unqualified for further service.'

It sounds like the 'nondeployable' part of this soldiers profile may be wishful thinking.

Besides - he will not be very popular with his comrades if they go and he 'wimps out.'

Answer 6

if he gets back surgery there's a 90% chance he's not deploying.

Answer 7

If the profile says that you're non-deployable, then you're non-deployable. I personally don't think you should be allowed to be in the army if you have a permanent profile, but that's just my opinion and they don't listen to me.

Answer 8

If he is not deployable then he can't go untill the medical reason is cleared up. If he is the only male in the family to carry on the name, then he can't go at all. Why do you think they had to "Save Private Ryan" in the movie.

Answer 9

There are to many important factors left out of your question.

The type of unit they are in.

The general nature of the profile.

All these are factors that need to be weighed in order to give an
accurate answer, anything else would be of little value to you or
them.

Thank you very much, while you're up.

Answer 10

only if its not a major problem with them they can be deployed . but everyone gets orders in the units so keep ur fingers cross and god bless ur son in law . my husband has been in 2 deployments so far. so yeah