Losing a Foot Never Held Her Back, Until She Tried to Join the Military

The military personnel bureaucracy is risk-averse, and no one wants to be the first to let an amputee in, said Katherine Kuzminski, who studies the military and society at the Center for New American Security.

“They don’t want to do it because they have a culture of not doing it,” she said.

“The military’s main objective is lethality, and they want to stay focused on that. The question is whether, in this day and age, a person who in the past might have been a burden may now help maintain that lethal edge.”

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