San Antonio Wounded Warrior Legal Guide: The Feres Doctrine, 2026 Warrior Games, and What Military Benefits and Narrow Civil Claims Texas Combat Veterans Can Actually Recover — Free Consultation, 1-888-ATTY-911
When a Soldier's Worst Day Meets a Lawyer's Hardest Answer: Why This Page Exists If you came to this page after watching the 2026 Warrior Games in San Antonio, or after hearing Major Jonathan Turnbull's story — the Army civil affairs officer blinded by an ISIS suicide bomber in Manbij, Syria in January 2019, told he would never walk or talk again, who has since run an Army 10-miler and is competing in eight adaptive sports this June — you probably came with a question. It is a question many military families carry in silence: Can my loved one sue? Can the government be held accountable? Is there any legal recovery for what happened? We are going to answer that question honestly. The answer is one most law firms will not give you, and it is the reason we wrote this page: in the vast majority of combat-injury cases, the answer is no — not because the injury isn't real, not because the sacrifice isn't recognized, but because a 1950 United States Supreme Court decision called the Feres doctrine bars it. That sounds like a legal technicality designed to protect the government from accountability. In some ways, it is. But…