Everyone keeps telling me that I'm going to be disqualified for having only one kidney...so when does this disqualification come?

from what i read, you are definitely Air Force material! jeez, why not apply for pilots school right now! (no offence Air Force). but seriously, if you do happen to get through MEPS, and get a ship date for basic training, be sure to post it here. i, for one, would LOVE to send you a care package!

Walmart is hiring.... Yes it is snarky, but you have shown an inability and an absolute unwillingness to listen to people that know more than you. Yes, I know it is hard to believe, but the roughly 1000's of years of experience here at RP dealing with these issues, is certainly not as much as your experience! wait, that's right you don't have any experience. I do applaud your desire to serve, but absolutely would never want you in the service for your attitude. It would get someone killed downrange. The safety of service members is the only thing that I care about it. Now, in all seriousness, stop clogging the RP feed with these stupid screeds!

Mr. Madison, when it comes to actual service policy and regulations, go to an authoritative source, not opinions on RP. In your case, that would be your recruiter, who hopefully, but not necessarily, will provide the definitive answer.

That said... it is pretty immature to cop an attitude when people provide honest opinions to your honest question. I doubt if they were just trying to screw with you. Hence the down vote.

If you do get recruited, I hope you rapidly gain some maturity and tact. If not, you will probably at best be a bitter, unhappy, one-termer; with a hundred reasons why it is everybody else's fault that the military was a bad experience. That is an opinion I hope you prove wrong.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid= [login to see] 4317AAHAfvy&guccounter=1

DOD INSTRUCTION 6130.03 - Medical Standards For Appointment, Enlistment, or Induction into the Military Services

Section 5 - Disqualifying Conditions
Paragraph 15 - Urinary Tract
Sub Paragraph i. - Absence of one kidney, congenital or acquired.

There is a possibility of a waiver, however to get such a waiver, it requires intervention of the Service Secretary (in your case the Secretary of the Air Force). Who must request a waiver from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs justifying an Air Force wide modification to the medical standards, or justify an individual waiver based on overwhelming critical needs of the Air Force which cannot be met through other means.

http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/613003p.pdf?ver=2018-05-04-113917-883

There is always a solution to a problem Madison Holloway. I can understand the hardship of not being able to do something that you’ve dreamed of your whole life. Or maybe just trying to escape the life you currently live. Non of us on here no anything really know about you and there for we are only able to offer our best advice in light of not knowing much other then what you have posted.

There are other military options that may actually fit your current situation and may not be so strenuous on your body. Unfortunately your kidneys are a huge function of your body and without two of them you put your body into so much risk of serious and painful drawn out death.
With that being said, have you looked into your local Malitia by chance? Here is a link that may assist you in maybe finding an alternative military. I have both civilian and veteran friends in some of the ones where I live. I think maybe that would be a better place for you to start.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/State+militia

There maybe some folks here that may help guid you in your journey through life. Not really sure why your in a hurry to become a soldier, most of us just come back broken anyways.
Good luck and I as a hot head kid once myself, I would maybe approach things differently. Some times people make there choice of your enlistment based on your attitude and how treat others. Even the military has standards of how you conduct your mannerism towards others and yourself. This with a forward negative post like this would potentially put fellow soldiers in danger.
Again good luck and I hope it all works out for you.

Not going to upvote nor will I down vote - I will not upvote because, quite frankly, you are behaving like a prick, and pity the poor NCO that has to train and mentor you, I will not downvote because you are trying to serve.

That being said, should you fall through the cracks and manage to enlist, lose the attitude. Nothing will get on your supervisors nerves more then some boot who thinks they know more, or thinks they can slide by the system, it will bring microscopic scrutiny upon you, and a world of pain. We NCO's can and will utilize the regulations and policies to absolutely wreck smartass boots. until the desired attitude adjustment is achieved.

Your attitude shown here is sure to be a big hit in Basic. Make sure you let the Drill Instructors know that you'll question everything they tell you, as you work to prove then wrong. Then, when you return home after getting released under "Failure To Adapt", you can let all your friends know that you were just too smart, everyone was jealous of your intelligence, so they let you go.

I read your post carefully. I can already tell you are lying in your post, I’m certain all the other leaders caught it as well. Well when you fill out the medical history paperwork to get into the physical you will have to lie about your missing kidney or the medical staff will dismiss you fast. So to lie through MEPS (I think there is a question about being rejected by another branch on the questionnaire) and the Air Force lets you in. During Basic you will start lying, to your fellow trainees, to your sergeants, to anyone else. At some point either you will forget all the lies you told and slip up, or you will brag about getting over on MEPS. Then the house of cards you built will collapse hard and fast. If your lucky it happens in the first 180 days, that way they might simply end your contract with a general discharge at the convenience of the government. At 181 days it becomes a series of non- judicial punishment that will snowball into a court martial either Bad Conduct or Less than Honorable Conditions. That will follow you forever. Any job with a whisper of government connection that discharge will come back to bite you. Be honest, totally honest with everyone and in the future you can honestly say “I tried to become an airman, but I was medically disqualified.” If you say that, I’ll admire your honesty and not hesitate to buy you a beer.

If you get in and that's a really big if? You had better lose this attitude you have or someones going to beat it out of you in basic training.