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[WH40K] Would the Imperial Guard turn away someone who was physically disabled?

If a physically disabled person, too physically disabled to fight effectively wanted to join the Imperial Guard, would he/she be turned away? If they are accepted, what exactly happens to them?
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It's worth remembering that your average Imperial Guardsman is actually fairly elite relative to the most common armed forces of the Imperium, the PDF of various planets.

When a tithe of Guardsmen is recruited from a planet they will generally be derived from the best of the PDF. While certainly not on the level of the Stormtroopers your average Guardsman is likely to be a lifelong soldier.

Obviously with an organization the size of the Imperial Guard there are all sorts of quirks, so to answer your question, chances are that a physically disabled Imperial citizen would be turned away from service in the Imperial Guard but there are exceptions.

1) If you are a member of a Guard regiment with a history of bionic augmentation for its recruits.

2) You are powerful or influential enough to be accepted regardless of your condition (perhaps you come from a noble family, or your Guard regiment allows for the purchase of commissions)

3) The need for recruitments is so strong, and your physical disability isn't *too* disabling.

Remember that in the Imperial Guard the cheapest resource is human life, barring specific regiments (mainly Tech-Guard) the Imperial Guard is unlikely to spend the expense of outfitting a basic trooper with corrective augmetics when they can recruit from literally hundreds of billions of willing and healthy volunteers.