Opinion ID: 438918
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Heading: Location of the Injury

Text: 24 The location of the injury has been considered significant by many courts under the incident to service test. Indeed, one court has observed that it appears fairly well established that if the injury occurs on a military base, recovery is automatically barred under Feres. Troglia v. United States, 602 F.2d 1334, 1337 (9th Cir.1979). Although Eighth Circuit cases have tended toward denying recovery in cases in which the injury occurs on a military base, there is no hard and fast rule to this effect. See Miller v. United States, supra, 643 F.2d at 493, 494, 495; Chambers v. United States, 357 F.2d 224, 229 (8th Cir.1966). We feel that such a rigid test is in part a substitute for analysis of whether the serviceman was injured in an activity incident to his service in the military. Troglia v. United States, supra, 602 F.2d at 1338. We believe that the location of the injury, which in this case occurred on a military base, is one of the factors to be considered, but it is not alone dispositive.