I understand the concept that MOS plays a big role on determining if your fit or not. Such as an 11B infantry man with bad knees will be more likely to be found unfit for knee problems than a 42A human resource specialist that sits at a desk most of the time for his/her job.
My question is for example will PTSD play a bigger role on an officer for being found unfit since I understand they usually tend to have more responsibility over soldiers and making decisions versus a section SGT for his squad. Please chime in and let me know if that is the interpretation when the REG states that rank plays into it? Thanks.
I have only seen references in a regs that exempted general officers and medical officers from MEBs. There are few officers here in the board that I know of and all were found unfit. Below the rank of BG, I think the officer is just as likely as the enlisted person to get found unfit.
Having said that, there is a process where say an infantry officer or NCO who broke his back could reclass to say an AG officer or AG NCO. I think it used to be called MMRB and the Army changed the acronym to MAR2. The person would still get a permanent profile for the injury and may take a modified APFT, but the person would still have to take one cardio event. The cardio event is what sank my career, at the time I was evaluated and put on permanent profile, I could not do any of the cardio events due to illness that was untreated. Had I been diagnosed and medicated, I may have been able to stay in.
It's very subjective and difficult to say whether or not officers get special treatment in the PEB process, I don't feel that I did at all.
I was in a WTU with several other officers, and we were all found unfit ( LT to COL). It depends on the injury, but higher ranks frequently have more resources and contacts to fight certain issues. I don't think this happens all the time, but it can. It seemed that the focus was primarily on the ability to deploy again and do their job. I know mine was - I wanted to stay in, but my medical pals placed so many (now I realize reasonable) restrictions on me that the PEB really had no choice. best of luck. Bob
