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Big Chief,
I had an NCOIC (11B) in my last S-2 shop that had this problem (still does) and had surgery twice in about a 9 month period.
He has had constant problems because he tried to hard for too long without addressing the problem and tried to get back to a reasonable PT standard too quickly.
To be blunt and short, he almost lost his leg in Iraq because of this. It had gotten to the point of swelling that his patrolling was difficult to do. He had gotten a minor scratch and it got infected. Doc's at Landstuhl said that due to the repeated injury to his lower leg and amount of fluid in it, it was like a petri dish for the infection to grow. He went to see the BN medics after a patrol and woke up inbound to Germany not knowing how bad it was. He is just shy of 40 and has to use a cane to get around without falling over from the pain.
This is a worse case scenario, but hopefully you get my point.
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