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Hey everyone,
I got a friend who is looking to the military and a few years they got a surgery done to correct an issue with their chest where bars were inserted to correct a dip that had form. Since then the bars have been removed and they are able to complete phyiscal activity with little to no breathing issue. They are trying to join the National Guard and were told they would need a mediacal waiver. I was never a recruiter or involved with a medical waiver during my time in so I figured I would see if anyone can tell me what the process is. THe Cheif Medical Officer at MEPS is the one that told them they will need a medical waiver. Is getting a medical waiver just haivng a docture interview the possible recruit or is there a battery of tests that must be complete or is it different based on the situation?
I got a friend who is looking to the military and a few years they got a surgery done to correct an issue with their chest where bars were inserted to correct a dip that had form. Since then the bars have been removed and they are able to complete phyiscal activity with little to no breathing issue. They are trying to join the National Guard and were told they would need a mediacal waiver. I was never a recruiter or involved with a medical waiver during my time in so I figured I would see if anyone can tell me what the process is. THe Cheif Medical Officer at MEPS is the one that told them they will need a medical waiver. Is getting a medical waiver just haivng a docture interview the possible recruit or is there a battery of tests that must be complete or is it different based on the situation?
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Medical Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) HealthPennsylvania ARNG Recruit
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The specific waiver is called a BuMed waiver and it is a medical review board from the specific branch of service for which the applicant has applied. The waiver process involves some of what you have asked in your question; it is a review of the issue, a review of the correction to the issue and a review to determine if the correction of the issue will satisfy the minimum requirements for enlistment. Part of this review process may include having the applicant see additional doctors who specialize in whatever it is that is being reviewed. Getting waivers can be simple, or they can be complex. From what you have described about your friend's issue, it seems that an orthopedic consult would be appropriate, but do not take that as gospel truth. MEPS is a strange animal...
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https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=national%20guard%20bureau%20leadership&s_it=loki-tb-sb
Purely as a thought on my part, you might wanna suggest looking through some of these...I'd expect there'd be someone on the senior clinical staff of NGB that'd know, certainly...that's just one idea, obv, of course....
Purely as a thought on my part, you might wanna suggest looking through some of these...I'd expect there'd be someone on the senior clinical staff of NGB that'd know, certainly...that's just one idea, obv, of course....
national%20guard%20bureau%20leadership - AOL Search Results
General Lengyel was commissioned in 1981 through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at University of North Texas. He served in various operational and staff assignments, primarily as an F-16 Instructor Pilot and Weapons Officer. His experience in the F-16 includes tours in Air Combat Command, Pacific Air Forces, United States Air Forces in Europe and the Texas Air National Guard.
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When I was in residency, before my total perm disability, a good deal of enrichment training I'd had to do, even though I'd been allied health, we shut my license because of the whole disability thing, had been in assisting with genl surg, incl a good deal of cardiothoracic stuff...I haven't seen all of it, by any means, and, that specific condition I'd known of, though hadn't dealt with, per se, even as a resident on assist, however, I'm fairly certain that's gonna be it, as I'd said...at least, those are my initial thoughts, at any rate.....
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