I am prior service. Would I be able to get a medical waiver for chronic bursitis in my left shoulder?

Can you do the pushups now? I got VA disability for a shoulder injury when I got out 18 years ago. When I decided to try to come back in as a Chaplain I had to prove that I could do the pushups at MEPS. Spent 3 years in the Reserve and been back on active duty for 9 and a half now.

That is not a question that anyone here can answer. It would be up to a medical board; assuming a recruiter would even submit your case for the waiver review.

But you can get plenty of educated guesses.

The Army is moving towards a renewed focus on Soldiers being deployable. If you can't do pushups, I have a hard time thinking you will have success with other events in the new PT test. The new push-up may be even more difficult for you, and I wonder how the dead lift, medicine ball throw, and the sled drags will work for you.

Before a medical waiver is submitted to the USAREC Command Surgeon for consideration, the applicant must be otherwise medically qualified. The applicant must take a MEPS physical exam, and any consultations ordered by the MEPS Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Before the MEPS CMO authorizes a physical, the medical pre-screen (DD2807-2) and all medical records are reviewed. Given that your condition is "chronic", (meaning current and recurring) the MEPS CMO will likely disqualify you based on the pre-screen and medical records, and not authorize the physical. In that case, the recruiting battalion operations could (in theory) submit a "request to physical" with all your medical records to the USAREC Command Surgeon to "over-ride" the CMO's decision and allow you to take the MEPS physical exam and required ortho consults for waiver consideration. Keep in mind that this rarely works in the applicant's waiver. If it does, then you go through the MEPS physical, and then get scheduled for an independent ortho consult that will fully examine your shoulder. Then it all goes back up to the USAREC Command Surgeon for final decision. If the medical waiver gets approved, you are still not out of the woods yet, as you will require an RE-Code waiver for your discharge. If the sep code is APFT failure, then you have to pass an APFT before the RE-Code waiver can be sent up. I know that's a lot of info, all based on a best case scenario, but to answer your question, your "chronic" shoulder injury is a permanent DQ and your chances of even getting to the MEPS for a physical are pretty close to 0%.