Posted on May 23, 2019
What steps should I take regarding confusion around my need for a medical waiver?
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Hello everyone, I am prior service been out for 2 years now. Honorable discharge, and receive a 20% disability six months layers after I got out of the army. The disability doesn’t prevent me from joining but I had a minor surgery(personal) ingot circumcised and the surgeon for to answer one of the pages. So on page 23 of the record it satiates that I don’t have cardiac or hypertension, but two pages later it was unanswered, because they had answer it prior to this page. So it was sent back from USAREC, I went back to hospital and got a memo from my primary care clearing me from those conditions and received an addendum from the surgeon as well stating that I never got surgery on my heart and I didn’t have hypertension. My recruiter really hasn’t said much just WAIT, literally I don’t know if I should switch recruiter or what. Asking for advice, thanks in advance?
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USAREC Medical Waivers can take a while. (I had processed some that took months!) They have (or had) one person who does the review and signs off on medical waivers at USAREC HQ, and they review all medical waivers across the U.S.
If additional documentation is needed, or if they ask for medical consults, this can delay a decision as well.
So even if you change recruiters, the medical waiver is going to be processed through the same MEPS, the same BN/BDE operations and through the same USAREC channels, which will result in the same wait time.
If additional documentation is needed, or if they ask for medical consults, this can delay a decision as well.
So even if you change recruiters, the medical waiver is going to be processed through the same MEPS, the same BN/BDE operations and through the same USAREC channels, which will result in the same wait time.
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SPC Jeffrey Tamayo
I went and spoke to the station commander today, he def helped he just got in the shop and is after it. Supposedly today meps had input on me and sent up document to USAREC or will send them to USAREC. So hopefully now it goes through because they submitted the same docs twice instead of the one I sent them. Thanks
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SPC Jeffrey Tamayo Wait is appropriate. The recruiter will need to get a waiver just to get you to MEPS. MEPS will then have to clear you. Then you'll need to get a waiver from the Surgeon General. Sounds like the recruiter knows what they're doing, it just takes a bit to get the dominoes to fall - speaking from personal experience. My fight to get back in took 18.5 years.
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SPC Jeffrey Tamayo
Got it. Yea mine has been going on for 11 months now. Another question if my waiver is being sent to USAREC does that mean I got a waiver from meps or it mean I didn’t get it and that why it was sent to USAREC. Because everyone in MEPS actually approve the med docs. But usarec needed additional paper and I took these like two months ago and still meps have not sent it up?
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SSgt (Join to see)
SPC Jeffrey Tamayo - Sounds like you've been through MEPS. So that' part is down, now its getting the waiver from SG, or whatever the needed office. It took about 3 months for the SG waiver to come through. Had to go through Active Air Force SG for it, since I was discharged from active duty.
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SFC Adam Potter
SPC Jeffrey Tamayo - USAREC will be the approval authority for the waiver, not MEPS.
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SSgt (Join to see)
Correct. you'll get a waiver just to go to MEPS. MEPS will then 'clear' you medically. At that point, then the recruiter needs to start the process to get a waiver from SG (or the authority for the Army side).
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