MLR-08 · MILITARY LIFE RECORD
Medical, Injury & Disability
MLR-08: Baseline health, treatment, hospitalization, illness, injury, exposure, line of duty, duty limitations, disability evaluation, and later claims.
Controlling research question
Build the chronology from condition or event through treatment, duty impact, causation evidence, fitness decisions, and later benefit decisions.
Core records to preserve
Entrance examinations; treatment and hospital records; incident reports; duty-status/LOD records; profiles; MEB/PEB files; VA exams and decisions.
Chronology and evidence testing
- Record the event date separately from the date a document was created.
- Identify the person, component, unit, duty status, location, and issuing office where they matter.
- Separate a record’s express statement from inference, family recollection, or a later summary.
- Preserve conflicts rather than silently harmonizing them; record negative searches by repository, query, dates, and coverage.
Key evidence pathways
Related navigation guides
- Injury Line Of Duty Meb Peb
- Medical Disability Determination Challenges
- Final Medical Dental Sha Bdd
- VA Disability Compensation
Authority and effective-date discipline
This Life Record chapter organizes chronology and evidence. It does not by itself state current eligibility, entitlement, deadline, or legal effect. For a rule-dependent question, identify the governing statute, regulation, departmental instruction, program guidance, or decision effective on the relevant date and use the linked Navigation Guide for the current pathway.
Preservation standard
Keep the best available source copy unchanged. Store edited, OCR, transcription, annotation, or working versions separately. Record creator, date/covered period, repository, exact locator, provenance, proposition supported, express limitations, and derivative lineage.
