What is the normal timeline for USAREC to send my recruiter an RE3 waiver approval email?

There is no such thing as an approval email. Waivers are submitted by electronic workflow in your electronic enlistment application in a system called GCR. The workflow goes from recruiting center, to recruiting company commander, to recruiting battalion operations, recruiting battalion commander/XO. then to USAREC. Once approved, disapproved, or "returned without action", it goes back to all those parties through electronic workflow in GCR. If your still "waiting", then the electronic waiver workflow has not been approved yet. The "email" probably means the notification of the waiver workflow status. Makes no sense at all that you were told that it had been approved by USAREC, and waiting on email. Its not approved until the electronic workflow in GCR gets checked approved. Once that happens, you are cleared to be projected to process at MEPS.

SPC Cody Weaver no experience, yet a suggestion I would talk to your Career Adviser i your Unit for more in-depth information. Good Luck.

Yes the process is slow and the recruiter will not get word until al of the paperwork is reviewed and signed off on. Think of it this way. You’re not the only waiver that Usarec is processing on any given day it’s in the thousands so be patient and let the process work through until it’s logical conclusion