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Mhm from soldiers , radio and

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television . This is the army now .

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Army leadership is now encouraging

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veterans , active duty and reserve

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soldiers who were denied purple Heart

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Awards for concussive or mild traumatic

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brain injury To submit their

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documentation again and be reconsidered

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for the metal . To receive a Purple

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heart , a wound must be the result of

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hostile action and the treatment must

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be documented in the soldiers medical

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records . In order to be reconsidered ,

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the injury must have occurred on or

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after september 11th 2000 and one

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eyewitness statements . Some type of

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incident report of the action for the

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cause of the wound and documented

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treatment by medical officer in the

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soldiers , official medical records ,

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requirements and submission

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instructions is available at www dot h

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r c dot army dot mil forward slash

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awards . That's the army

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now .