What steps should I take regarding confusion around my need for a medical waiver?

2019-05-23T13:36:29-04:00

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?

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made May 23 at 2019 1:45 PM

2019-05-23T13:45:38-04:00

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.

Response by SFC Adam Potter made May 23 at 2019 1:54 PM

2019-05-23T13:54:39-04:00

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.