Posted on Jan 30, 2020
Josh Alien
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My recruiter isn’t really helpful and I feel like something just isn’t right with him I’ve been trying to join the navy for well over a year now The very first time I walked in his office it took me 7 months to get to meps then I had to get a waiver which took 3 then I was sworn in then had a wrist injury wait 3 more months then submit the dep loss waiver to get me back into meps that took 3 weeks and still nothing Should I change recruiters would they be able to help? I have no clue what to do
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SGT Psychological Operations Specialist
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Changing recruiters will not help, it will only set you back even further. Waivers take time and more often than not, it is out of their hands. Patience is all you need right now.
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MAJ Audiology
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None of those sound like a problem caused by the recruiter. It takes time to get a packet done, then get scheduled at MEPS and then waivers take however long they take. Changing a recruiter in your case isn’t going to make the process go any faster. If you want to join the navy you will need to just hang in there. You might as well get used to hurry up and wait because it’s a common thing in military life.
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SFC Jeremy Boyd
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I dont have enough information to go off of in your query to know why it took seven months before you went to MEPS, but the rest of it sounds pretty standard to me. In fact, the fact that you had any form of medical waiver submitted and approved within three months is fairly quick in my experience. Medical waivers go all the way to a service's Command Surgeon, and are processed in the order they are received. A Command Surgeon also has to carefully review all documents and records associated with a waiver request before blessing off, so it is always a lengthy process. Believe me, if recruiting offices themselves were the waiver approval authority, it would have been three days instead of three months.

If you could give more clarification on why it took seven months to get to MEPS it would make it easier to give unbiased advice on whether to process with a different recruiter. My guess is your recruiter had to submit a "med read" first prior to you going, which notifies the MEPS doctor of a prior existing medical condition and asks for permission from him/her to take the enlistment physical anyway. Those can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Just like a waiver, once it leaves the recruiter's hands and is at MEPS, everything happens on MEPS timetable.
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