HIV Tests Discriminatory?

[btk_joker]

I just read about how in the American D of D tests all personell for the HIV antibody to the AIDS virus. They say that it‘s due to the fact that the uniformed services are their own blood bank in a combat situation. If they soldier is positive, they can‘t go overseas and if it progresses, they are discharged from the Army.

My question is, is this discriminatory? Or are their reasons legitimate?

J. Lightfoot

 

[Sh0rtbUs]

I think their reasons are legit. Sux to be the infected one, but it would suck even more for the recipient who has the HIV virus transferred over into them.

 

[Infanteer]

What‘s to descriminate against, blood is a big part of war, and there is no need to have soldiers fight a war and than come home and find the have HIV/AIDS from trying to aid another soldier in the field.

This would reduce a sense of fear in dealing with a bleeding buddy while on the field.

 

[Jeff Boomhouwer]

So then they get tested every year,6 mons or month after that? If there is anything true about army folk is that he will mount anything that moves drink anything that resemblies alcohol and usually die in large numbers before they get old enough to know better. What I‘m getting at is the testing would go on nonstop.