Posted on Aug 28, 2018
Should I go over the recruiter's head if they are not trying to deal with me?
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I recieved a recode 3a for failing a PT test while getting out the guard. I just pasted a pt test with the recruiters. I went to meps and they found a astigmatism in my left eye and now the recruiters aren't trying to deal.
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Well this is new ive had astigmatism for 20 years now and never needed a waiver or got disqualified from the corps or the army when I joined. That is a new one, MEPS is always its own animal.
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MAJ(P) (Join to see)
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Keep in mind standards change over time, and this could be new. I just left command in recruiting. When I first entered active duty in USMC in 1994, I had asthma as a child, but it did not prevent me from joining. Today 24 years later, you better believe very few with asthma get in.
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PFC Elijah Rose
MAJ(P) (Join to see) All entry standards can and do get waived, but yet anything that can remotely be considered a medical problem can and does get people chaptered. I.E. during WWII you didn't have to be able to read and write, while I have personally met people who got a fraudulent enlistment chapter because they forgot to tell MEPS about childhood asthma they used to have.
Face it, the whole thing is according to slots, personal grudges, and favortism.
Face it, the whole thing is according to slots, personal grudges, and favortism.
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First not all entry standards can be waived period. Second, to think someone in the recruiting office or MEPs has or holds a grudge and shows favoritism is ludicrous. Standards change overtime but i don’t think you have the expertise to determine facts about recruiting.
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An RE code waiver is BN level and shouldn’t be an issue. The medical issue should only require an eye consult. The recruiters are probably waiting for the CMO at MEPs to clear you after the consult results come back
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I can't understand why a recruiter would not want to enlist someone. They all have goals to meet and unless the guy/girl needs a waiver that the recruiter doesn't think would be given, they should be helping the person enlist. There must be a reason and the recruiter needs to step up and explain the problem. I would go up the Chain of Command until I got an answer, good or bad.
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Were you medically disqualified, no waiver considered? Was a medical waiver disapproved? You require an RE Code waiver, was that approved? Just ask for a clarification on your disqualifications. Talk to the Station Commander (the senior NCO in charge) if you are not satisfied with the answers given by a recruiter. Obviously, there is a disqualification somewhere if a recruiter is avoiding you, otherwise you would be enlisted by now. You are entitled to know what your disqualifications are.
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SFC J Fullerton
PFC (Join to see) - So you have an open profile on your MEPS physical. Do you require an eye consult? That is when the MEPS doctor sets up an appointment with a specialist for further exam. That is usually the case with open profiles. Nothing to go over the recruiters head for, its out of their hands until the MEPS doctor makes a decision.
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SFC J Fullerton correct profile is open. The chief doctor was supposed to decide if I needed an eye to consult this past Monday. I tried contacting the recruiter to see if they heard anything but they have been ignoring my calls and text. I had an eye appointment today with my eye doctor and I was just going to turn it in.
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SFC J Fullerton
PFC (Join to see) - Just keep following up. Call the office instead of a cell phone. If the recruiter isn't there, ask to speak to the station commander.
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It is up to the MEPS Doctors whether you are qualified or not, and if it will take a waiver, if so, then and only then can the recruiters off you something.
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Tell them you are a girl! good to go. Girls do not have to meet real world qualifications.
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You could just find a different recruiter, but it might be faster and easier to go over his head since you're prior service and bureaurcrats will listen to you.
Do whatever you need to get in, no one should ever hold that against you.
Do whatever you need to get in, no one should ever hold that against you.
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Elaborate, ok? What MOS if Army? Which service if not Army? Are you trying for senior enlisted ultimately? Warrant? Commissioned? College thus far? Assocs? Bach? Grades? GPA? Also, there are recruiting district senior staff as you obv know, it’s depend on what more you can relate about goals, objectives, ambitions...obviously you’ve been around the recruiting block as have and others here, I’d been Army ROTC, couldn’t finish the program, got denied elsewhere, incl by USAF for OTS, I wrote an appeal through the officer program staff, they let me do it ultimately, though I had to go through the program twice, and still bollocked up my AFSC, analogous to MOS, and wound up in the wrong place in the wrong group, and couldn’t change it, so believe me, I’ve had more than my share...I’d wanted USAF Mac, they had a 20/100 minimum, whereas NFO/WSO/nav for Navy had a 20/200 minimum, which made zero sense for carrier landings since the standard was lower...you could request a reassess by ophthalmology outside on your own of the astigmatism, and give the recruiting group the writers if it bears you out not being as bad as the MEzpS clinicians thought, as well possibly, give me your thoughts and elaborate I’d be eager to hear more no rush....
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