Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-24891101-20150313225820

I thought it was that. Wasn't quite sure if there was a lesser-known aspect to it.

That only works because the military bureaucracy has to account for rare superhumans in a sea of normal people. What would kill an ordinary soldier is not necessarily enough to kill a superhuman, so for morale purposes they give them the benefit of the doubt.

However, this is Remnant, and all Hunters are some degree of superhuman. Therefore the survival expectations are adjusted accordingly. Especially given that the Grimm would eat corpses, and thus there might be little to recover. This suggests that whoever actually does so would not particularly hesitate to list a Hunter as KIA. Moreover, MIAs would generally be presumed dead, since they couldn't possibly be captured or anything.