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Originally Posted by scooter
They weren't removed from the Regiment, just forcibly reassigned to Tampa instead of allowing them to fill any of the myriad jobs at Group or BN staffs. We still had to give guys to man those positions, which were non-deploying slots anyway. All of the guys in question had the ability to hold down those jobs and do them well.
To answer your question, not sure of the rules surrounding P3 profiles concerning PCS moves, but it happened. Like some of the posts here, he felt that severly wounded guys didn't need to be taking up space and he made sure they moved.
He even tried to get some of them transferred to the post Warrior Transition Unit... that idea didn't make it far thankfully.
I've had this conversation with a lot of people, and I'm always amazed how many (to include 18 series) feel that our wounded shouldn't be retained....or promoted for that matter. It hits close to home for me and I respectfully disagree.
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I only asked as a T 3 profile was the primary profile used for some staff jobs in SF. We usesd to take care of our own. Usually the guy had 90 days or less before he'd be able to jump, and; he was an ideal candidate for a staff officer or NCO. I know I was a CO S-2 (Now BN)with such a profile in 69. We got to jump into Lake McArthur (I think that was it) to keep our jump pay. I recall a man hit in the leg with a shattered bone was usually in that category unless he lost a limb. Of course, we did not have the prosthetics like today. I hear you and it is wrong. SF took care of it's own then. We had a senior NCO drink beer out his leg. We had an RA captain with one eye. We went through the MFFP physical and I used my hand for a man missing two fingers.
Perhaps it was wrong.The military damn sure did not want to medically retire men that were trained back then. However once a RIF comes- they will go.