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So my recruiter could not find any hospital paperwork for my broken wrist. He told me to not worry about it and sent me to MEPS. I passed everything in the MEPS physical but the weigh in. Im worried if I apply for top secert clearance theyll find out and discharge me. Can i go back and change this?
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Omission is in the same class as lying, and can bit you in the ass. Everyone undergoes clearance they will probably find it regardless the level of clearance. Save your own butt- contact the hospital yourself and have the paperwork ready to hand off- let MEPS decide- it might cost sometime- but it is better than being chaptered out down the road,
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SGM Bill Frazer better to get the recruiter in trouble for telling Tj Kaglic to lie about it then get pulled from basic for actually lying about it
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My son broke both his radius and ulna when he was 6 and we did not have any hospital paperwork on it. We (his mother and I) both had to write a letter explaining the injury and corrective medical steps taken. Then the recruiter sent it up for waiver. This may have been required as he broke the same bones again in a different place when he was 16, but we were able to get the paperwork on that from the Doctor who attended that injury.
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Your recruiter told you not to worry about it because if you bring it up, MEPS will demand to see paperwork for it. Technically not correct, but more of a simple solution to a simple problem. If you do bring it up, your process may halt until you get the medical documentation for it.
At no point in the clearance questionnaire does it ask about your hospital visits for physical health. If it did, you would only have to reveal it. Clearance investigators don't share your information, they just determine if you're eligible for a clearance. Unless you confess to a crime they're obligated to report, what is in your clearance stays between you and the clearance granting facility.
At no point in the clearance questionnaire does it ask about your hospital visits for physical health. If it did, you would only have to reveal it. Clearance investigators don't share your information, they just determine if you're eligible for a clearance. Unless you confess to a crime they're obligated to report, what is in your clearance stays between you and the clearance granting facility.
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Tj Kaglic
Okay. I was wondering because i read something saying if you lied to meps to get in they could discharge you with fraudulent entry and deny you the chance to reenlist and it can come with felony charges
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Tj Kaglic yes that's true. Anything you fail to reveal could result in discharge, and if you succeed at covering up a disqualifying factor that would have prevented you from enlistment, then you could be charged with a felony.
Criminal charges are only in extreme cases and would require a court martial. Usually, if you lie you just get discharged. But, that's only if you hid a condition that would have prevented your enlistment.
To be clear, I'm not telling you to lie, or to go back and alter your current state of enlistment process. Just giving you realistic expectations. I myself didn't reveal that I was allergic to bees because my recruiter suggested that I shouldn't. It wouldn't have stopped me from enlisting, but it would have added months to the process at the time.
Criminal charges are only in extreme cases and would require a court martial. Usually, if you lie you just get discharged. But, that's only if you hid a condition that would have prevented your enlistment.
To be clear, I'm not telling you to lie, or to go back and alter your current state of enlistment process. Just giving you realistic expectations. I myself didn't reveal that I was allergic to bees because my recruiter suggested that I shouldn't. It wouldn't have stopped me from enlisting, but it would have added months to the process at the time.
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Tj Kaglic
Okay. Its not a disqualifying issue. My recuiter just couldnt find any paperwork from when it happen at the hospital or ortho that we just skipped over it.
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Tj Kaglic in that case, your recruiter would need to have someone from the medics facility write a memo that no records are available
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