Posted on May 1, 2017
Anyone seen someone else or been through the med board process in initial entry training?
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https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/parris-island-purgatory
Saw that article today. Reminded me of a guy from OSUT who had bad scoliosis--should never have been let in--and his experience mirrors what was in the article. Eventually, he went AWOL after being told it would take 9 months to get out. He got a civilian lawyer, turned himself in, returned, but got out within a couple weeks.
Saw that article today. Reminded me of a guy from OSUT who had bad scoliosis--should never have been let in--and his experience mirrors what was in the article. Eventually, he went AWOL after being told it would take 9 months to get out. He got a civilian lawyer, turned himself in, returned, but got out within a couple weeks.
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Wow, that's crazy!
I knew one guy in AIT who was fighting a med board and had been at AIT/Fort Eustis for over a year when I got there. He was still there when I graduated 17 1/2 weeks later.
The Med Board process here at Fort Bragg is 12-18 months, a lot more than the standard of 9-12 months. I was trying to get a PEB, but after hearing that I'd probably have to extend just to complete it, I figured I would just tough it out till November.
They need to let those guys go home. Keeping them there in a "grey" status is just cruel.
I knew one guy in AIT who was fighting a med board and had been at AIT/Fort Eustis for over a year when I got there. He was still there when I graduated 17 1/2 weeks later.
The Med Board process here at Fort Bragg is 12-18 months, a lot more than the standard of 9-12 months. I was trying to get a PEB, but after hearing that I'd probably have to extend just to complete it, I figured I would just tough it out till November.
They need to let those guys go home. Keeping them there in a "grey" status is just cruel.
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SGT Dave Tracy
"Keeping them there in a "grey" status is just cruel."
Agreed. I was a little broken at OSUT, and when I was at physical therapy, I asked them the longest they'd seen anyone stuck there (don't remember if they were perpetually recycled or waiting on med board), and was told "2 years". Two years at Sand Hill sounds terrible!
The guy I knew bunked next to me, and let me tell ya, he was a defeated person. Weeks of doing menial work around the company while we went off to train, and no more freedom than what we had, which is to say next to none. And the only glimmer of hope for him was a vague measure of how long he'd have to wait at Sand Hill.
No one, not even our drill sergeants I think blamed the guy for bolting. At least he had a plan by getting civilian and military legal help lined up, so that after he surrender at Pensacola and return to us with about 2 weeks until graduation, there was pressure on the powers that be to get him taken care of in a reasonable timeframe. He finally left a couple days before the rest of us graduated.
Agreed. I was a little broken at OSUT, and when I was at physical therapy, I asked them the longest they'd seen anyone stuck there (don't remember if they were perpetually recycled or waiting on med board), and was told "2 years". Two years at Sand Hill sounds terrible!
The guy I knew bunked next to me, and let me tell ya, he was a defeated person. Weeks of doing menial work around the company while we went off to train, and no more freedom than what we had, which is to say next to none. And the only glimmer of hope for him was a vague measure of how long he'd have to wait at Sand Hill.
No one, not even our drill sergeants I think blamed the guy for bolting. At least he had a plan by getting civilian and military legal help lined up, so that after he surrender at Pensacola and return to us with about 2 weeks until graduation, there was pressure on the powers that be to get him taken care of in a reasonable timeframe. He finally left a couple days before the rest of us graduated.
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That seems exceptionally long. I was assigned to the wounded warrior battalion at Ft. Hood back in 2008, and we had an AIT troop come in who should not have been assigned to us. But once we accepted that troop we were stuck with them and had to run them thru the medical process but even then I don't think we had anyone trying to med out for 2 years.
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