What happens if you loose a limb in the military?

If you have a very physical job like combat control or special forces of something like that you obviously can't still fight so what does the military do with you? Are you given a desk job? What if your injured in combat to the point where you can't really work at all? Do they just give you retirement pay and make you retire or just discharge you?What happens if you loose a limb in the military?The standard practice in all of the services is to have a medical board evaluate the person's fitness for continued service.



As a general rule, a missing limb will get you enough disability (30% or more) that you'd be eligible for permanent disability retirement under Title 10 US Code, Chapter 61.



The way disability retirement works is that you get a percentage of your retired pay base. You'd get either the percentage of your disability (capped at 75%) or 2.5% times the number of your years of service.



Some military members love what they do and ask for retraining or retention. If they don't do so, however, a disability retirement is the most likely outcome.



MSgt, USAF (Retired)



P.S. I was my wife's counsel for her disability retirement, so I ended up learning way too much about the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities, etc.



P.P.S. Sometimes people are idiots in dealing with disability retirees. They'll see that the person is a retired E-3 and assume he's a loser who got busted, when in reality he was retired at age 22 for horrific injuries and has now gotten old enough that he looks like a "regular" retiree. There is no difference on the ID card.What happens if you loose a limb in the military?
It grows back!



Well, you just don't do that job anymore, depends.What happens if you loose a limb in the military?Gnereally, you are treated and then medically discharged or retired and turned over to the VA.
From what i've heard and seen, they will claim that the injury was not work related and make you wait a year or so before sending you any benefit checks.What happens if you loose a limb in the military?My son didn't lose his leg but messed it up pretty bad. had to have surgery on it. Going thru rehab now. The Army is going to evoluate him in a couple of weeks to see if they will let him reenlist. He wants to stay in. Right now they have assigned him a desk job at Ft. Benning, GA. He hates that since he is infantry. He wants to stay in and learn a new mos as an electronics engineer, working on dashboards of aircraft. But that is up to the army.What happens if you loose a limb in the military?
It used to be automatic transfer to the Permanent Disability Retired List (PDRL) with a life-long pension. But, that doesn't seem to be the case today. Things have changed in the last two decades alone. Before I retired from the Navy in 1982 a below-knee amputee who was injured in a flight deck accident wound up in command of a fleet tug. The general who commanded the Seventh Division in Operation Desert Storm was a below-knee amputee. And there are a number of amputees, including bilateral lower leg amputees, who are fighting their service's disability evaluation system to remain on active duty.

Navy Master Chief Carl Brashear, who was injured in the 1960s (and was the subject of the movie "Men of Honor") might have been the pioneer in cases of amputees fighting to stay on active duty and work in the field for which they trained.

To fight for his right to remain on active duty, Carl had the highest panel in the Navy Disability Evaluation System (the Physical Review Council) convene in the bleachers next to the confidence course at the Quantico Marine Base while Carl ran through that course wearing his prosthesis. They agreed he could remain on active duty. He was a Master Diver. A job which requires top physical capabilities.

The new types of prosthesis seem to have changed the whole picture on whether amputees stay in the force or go on the disability retired list.
I was medically retired from the Army with a payout check and a small monthy pension. Free Education (Getting my B.S. right now) and free medical at the VA Hospital for the rest of my life.



They did try to see what other jobs I could do, but determined that due to being left handed and losing my left hand, I was useless. The back, knee, and foot they could deal with.What happens if you loose a limb in the military?
I believe they allow you to keep the title of marine but you dont have to do anything i think