If they get injured...

The command notification requirements when a Marine or Sailor is injured. The updated requirements are as follows:

Notification will be made to a casualty's next of kin as follows:

Telephonic notification:

• Very Serious Injury - resulting from a hostile or nonhostile event
• Serious Injury - resulting from a hostile or nonhostile event
• Not Serious Injury - resulting from a hostile event

When notification is warranted, the assigned Marine Corps representative will notify the next of kin and disclose all known facts about the incident.

The assigned Marine Corps representative will contact the next of kin even if the casualty has already notified his next of kin, in order to offer assistance unless the casualty states that he does not want his next of kin contacted.

Next of kin notification IS NOT REQUIRED for nonhostile, not serious injury cases.

Hostile:
Casualty type assigned when a Marine becomes a casualty "in action" as the result of enemy action.

Nonhostile:
Casualty type assigned when a Marine becomes a casualty resulting from circumstances not directly attributable to enemy action.

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