Question for badapple or someone legally literate.

[Davidzill]

CA. My brother just died last week(22 years old), and now I am the sole surviving sibling. I am 23 and in the CA National Guard. My Parents want to know if this can get me out of serving in a combat zone, and no I'm not a coward, I've been in plenty of combat in Iraq with the Marines. This is a question mainly for my parents who don't want to bury there last child. I don't want any sarcastic comments from paradise or anyone like that; I served in plenty of combat, not in the U.S. Chair Force in a beautiful base in Germany. Thanks for your help.

 

[fozzy2]

In theory it can. You can always request a change of orders on humanitarian grounds. I really don't know what the odds are on the military agreeing to it. The "sole survivor" policy applies to sole survivors whose kin died in the line of duty. Was this other death a military person? If not, the policy does not apply. ( likewise, "only children" do not qualify)

 

[Crazed98]

It probobly won't get you out of deployment but could get you sent to Kuwait as a non-combatant instead of Iraq/Afganistan.