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06-09-2009, 12:44 AM
zuludelta
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Blind Soldier Capt. Ivan Castro Hasn't Lost Sight Of Mission - wcco.com
I try to keep up with your guys' discussions in the thread and have seen some interesting ways of using Snake-Eyes. Being mute he may be discharged but I don't think it would be as large a problem as being blind like the soldier in the article. Granted he does no direct combat, but being mute you can still communicate. ASL is something I am currently learning and doesn't the military use sign in the field? Granted it would be difficult to determine what he was communicating in the field under fire, however body language can be read if you practice. Watch a movie with no sound and try to guess what is being discussed you may not get the words but you can get the tone and intentions.
Neat link, thanks for sharing.
As to whether or not a mute (or blind, for that matter) soldier can still stay on the force, it all depends on their MOS. A soldier will be "forced" into separation if their disability prevents them from fulfilling their duties as prescribed by their MOS, if they can't be placed in a "reduced capacity" duty designation within their MOS, or if they're unable to re-train for admission into a different MOS where their disability won't be an operational liability.
Offhand, it seems like the captain in the article that was linked to falls into the second case (he retains the SF Officer career, but his role is now limited, for all intents and purposes, to that of a designated non-combatatant). Which is all well and good, as an SF officer's primary "weapon" is his mind, and able-bodied officers accomplish unconventional warfare mission goals all the time without getting into direct engagement with the enemy, so it's not at all unreasonable to think that a non-sighted officer could do the same (but it's still unusual, impressive, and exemplary all the same, not trying to take anything away from the good captain, quite the opposite, in fact).
I don't know if the same can be said for a mute enlisted infantryman, though. Tactical signaling (verbal and non-verbal) forms a large part of an infantryman's set of supporting skills and I think it would be hard to justify retaining a mute infantryman when direct visual contact and a clear line of sight are strict necessary & sufficient conditions for practical two-way communication to take place between said soldier and his squad-mates. Communicating within a squad in combat situations is hard enough with all the signaling options available, why would any sane commander want to complicate matters further by employing a soldier who is limited to communicating with gestures and visual schemes?
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