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Former SEAL Exposes Navy Medical Bureaucracy That Let Him Deploy Five Times With Non-Deployable Waiver
Shawn Ryan Show
#313 Eric Frohardt - DEVGRU Gold Squadron Sniper and Assaulter
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"I had lost my kidney and I signed a waiver to stay in the military. I didn't know that that was a non-deployable waiver. I immediately deployed right after it. I did 4 more at DEVGRU. It wasn't until I got hurt in combat that the Bureau of Navy Medicine found out because they had to sign off on my Purple Heart. The Bureau of Navy Medicine shows up at DEVGRU and says, where is this Froehart? He signed a waiver to stay in under the caveat that he couldn't deploy. And I just kept going."
Froehart revealed that after losing his kidney in 2002, he signed a waiver while heavily medicated not realizing it barred him from deploying. He went on five combat deployments to DEVGRU over seven years before Navy Medicine discovered the error when approving his Purple Heart paperwork. The bureaucratic disconnect allowed him to conduct his entire DEVGRU career in violation of medical regulations that should have grounded him immediately after his kidney removal.
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- #313 Eric Frohardt - DEVGRU Gold Squadron Sniper and Assaulter
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