I am putting in the paperwork today to [again] appeal my medical disqualification from military service. Hopefully with another year since my illness, it'll sway the MEPS doctors just enough to get them to let me in.

*fingers crossed*

Good luck.

Good luck man. It changed my life completely, and I wouldn't change a thing.

Go get 'em!

What branch? You said something before about USCG. You know they're downsizing, right?

Got the ball rolling on an Army OCS application today.

Well, that will have your best odds, especially if you aren't picky about where they send you.

Have fun working supply in Diego Garcia. :ph43r: :P :lol:

Good luck bud!

How's this going?

Still waiting on my med read to come back from MEPS. They told me "about 72 hours"...and now they're saying "up to 2 weeks". The waiting is killing me.

That said, I found the full list of medical disqualifications, and ITP is specifically listed on it. So my only hope is a waiver.

Good luck man, I leave for Navy RTC August 2nd.

Has it been "two weeks" yet? I'm still rooting for ya man. MEPS can be a hard one to figure. Sometimes they will waiver something that would normally be described as "Hopeless" then turn around and permanently disqualify somebody for a rash. Recruiters fear Doctors more than anyone for a reason.

May your dice come up 7-11 on this one!

Over a month in, and still not a ****ing word from MEPS. Get off your collective asses, review the SINGLE PAGE FILE that was sent to you, and give me a damn answer. They're technically only supposed to be allowed 1 day for anything under 3 pages, and I've been waiting over a month for one page.

:angry:

*rage*

It's the military.

Yeah...that's reassuring. :P

Every day that passes just makes me more and more certain that they're going to reject me again.

*Edit*
I figured I'd go ahead and do the same with the Navy and the Air Force, so that if at least one came back approved/waived, I'd be able to jump on it; keep three options open, ya know?
They both just told me, flat out, that if things are moving slow with the Army, that it's not even "worth their effort" to talk to me.
Why do mostly assholes populate the various recruiting commands? You'd think the branch would want to make sure they had friendly people there to make good impressions on potential recruits.

Who knows why they choose the people they do. I don't even want to talk about the debacle when I was trying to get into the Coast Guard, before and after college. Good luck man, waiting and waiting makes you think they forgot about you. :(

Or because the economy is in the shitter there's a huge amount of people trying to join. Meanwhile, the military's downsizing. Therefore, it's not worth their effort to make numbers by doing the paperwork for a waiver that might not get approved.

Edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WTyW-9Usg...eos=BH0TVN3mMZI

And that's what REALLY burns my hide about the whole thing. All the people flocking to the military purely for the paycheck are taking away the spots from those of us who actually want and are called to really do it. I'd sign a contract for a full 20 year term tomorrow if they'd let me in. But no, it's all the people who are just there to get paid that get the spots. It's a ****ed up situation, big time.

:lol: That was off da chain!

Great for laughs, terrible as a recruiting tool; down right criminal, if you ask me.

Recruiting tools?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tXUvxiVshY

They could be sitting on your paperwork for a reason.

If they are bending the rules they would get in trouble by telling you. For instance they will take somebody with a waiver that needs a signature and just hold onto the paperwork until the recruiting battallion isn't making their numbers for the month or quarter and then tell teh CO, "Sir, I ain't got nothin'. All I got is this waiver but it needs the Commanders signature on it......". SNATCH, out of the recruiters hands and into the system with a guaranteed signature instead of the usual hemming and hawing when they have time to think about things.

So what I'm trying to say is that it might be that no news is good news. The bad news is that all the services maintain the same MEPS records so if the Army DQ's you the rest of the branches will access the same info and can't work you either.

Hang in there and we will keep rooting for you.

I was already DQ'd by the Coast Guard about two years ago. This is just relying purely on a waiver, which they (the Army) seemed to think would be granted.

They've got until January to approve me...then I'm pulling the trigger on my contingency plan.

Zee Legion will take you!

Sorry man, couldn't help it. It's always best to have a plan "B". I loved the Army but it would be jusst like them to call you on the evening of Dec 31st and tell you they have a slot but you have to have everythig done by midnight.

Lots of big wheels that turn slow but sure if you know what I mean. Oh yeah and don't try to apply common sense when trying to figure out "why", but I'm sure you are already aware of that.

Good luck again, I wish I was more currentt so I could make a phone call or two for you.

Thats all you can rely on for the military, is being unorganized and taking forever. Word always changes, and you will always be left holding the bag.

I don't know about the Army, but when I was on recruiting duty after boot in December I was told that the USMC was only accepting 0.7 people per month.

And on top of that the only people that had a chance were those that were not yet graduated from high school. Had a few people come in and he talked to them and told them he'd do what he could, but no promises. It's just retarded.

My 1st Sgt. always says how now that we're downsizing for quantity and quality it is nearly impossible to get in if you have anything that looks remotely like a negative. You have four guys for his example, they can do 16,17,18, and 20 pull ups respectively. All are half decent scores but the only one getting in is the one with the perfect 20 and no waivers.

Just got the final "No, you suck" from the Army today. I emailed about it, and my recruiter emailed back claiming that his boss had just gotten off the phone with their battalion, and that the Army surgeon general had denied my waiver. Now, I've never had lucky timing in anything in my life, so I think he's a lying shitbird and that they've had that info for a while and just decided not to pass it on.

Oh well...I had already given up hope a month ago, and I'm enrolled in the local police academy starting in January. I've been doing ride-alongs for the last couple of weeks (and will be for the next 3 months), and I think I'll do really well at it. After a few years...who knows? State...maybe Feds...there's LOTS of places to move up to.

[Friday night we got called to a "drunken hobo knife fight"...I couldn't believe the dispatcher put it that way on the computer readout...and it was a pretty exciting call once we got there.]

Hobo Knife? :ph43r:


So does it cheese you off now when the homosexual camp stands up and complains that they're not allowed to serve and whines how we should make special exemptions for them?

You have all my sympathy, Clint. My personal story is not too far different.

Good luck with the police.