Medical Waiver for OCS (Cryptologic Warfare Officer Applicant)

[kd08]

I was recently given an ICO rejection letter on the basis of my medical condition: subaortic stenosis. This occurred roughly 4 months after going through MEPS in mid August 2024.

However, I am able to pass the PRT by a solid margin given that I've trained for each exercise and maintain an active lifestyle through rock climbing and swimming. I also pass the Navy height, weight, and body fat percentage standards. My resting heart rate averages between 42 and 55 bpm while sleeping or sitting, and my heart rate while exercising (climbing - route/sport, running, strenuous weight lifting) generally varies from 100 - 145 bpm. In the last visit to my cardiologist in 2021, he stated that I was in excellent health and would not need annual check-ups any longer.

Because of this, my recruiter is encouranging me to submit a second medical waiver. He has suggested asking for the following from the cardiologist to support my case:
1. Echocardiogram
2. Stress tests

However, my recruiter is not on the medical board and told me that he doesn't know all of the potential health screening tests to help my case.

If anybody reading this is familiar with the medical board or Navy medical waivers, can you let me know if these two items would be sufficient for the second medical waiver? I appreciate any information y'all can give me!

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

I was recently given an ICO rejection letter on the basis of my medical condition: subaortic stenosis. This occurred roughly 4 months after going through MEPS in mid August 2024.

However, I am able to pass the PRT by a solid margin given that I've trained for each exercise and maintain an active lifestyle through rock climbing and swimming. I also pass the Navy height, weight, and body fat percentage standards. My resting heart rate averages between 42 and 55 bpm while sleeping or sitting, and my heart rate while exercising (climbing - route/sport, running, strenuous weight lifting) generally varies from 100 - 145 bpm. In the last visit to my cardiologist in 2021, he stated that I was in excellent health and would not need annual check-ups any longer.

Because of this, my recruiter is encouranging me to submit a second medical waiver. He has suggested asking for the following from the cardiologist to support my case:
1. Echocardiogram
2. Stress tests

However, my recruiter is not on the medical board and told me that he doesn't know all of the potential health screening tests to help my case.

If anybody reading this is familiar with the medical board or Navy medical waivers, can you let me know if these two items would be sufficient for the second medical waiver? I appreciate any information y'all can give me!

It's not a "second" medical waiver, it's simply a reconsideration based on additional information. Your recruiter and their chain of command can and should be contacting the medical waivers authority (note: it's not a medical "board", it's just someone reviewing your medical information) to get any sort of guidance - to include medical documents or testing to merit a waiver being granted.

Lastly, unless it's changed very recently, the only person authorized to disapprove waivers is the admiral in charge of navy recruiting command. Once the medical waivers authority reviews and determines a waiver/s is not merited, it gets reviewed by a series of navy recruiting leaders (who can decide to approve) before it goes to the admiral to decide. As such, it is going to be a significant uphill battle getting a DQ overturned.

Edit: I just pulled the MANMED CH-15 and found the following:
"(1) Current or history of all valvular heart diseases, congenital (746) or acquired (394) including those improved by surgery, are disqualifying. Mitral valve prolapse or bicuspid aortic valve is not disqualifying unless there is associated tachyarrhythmia, regurgitation, aortic stenosis, insufficiency, or cardiomegaly. "

It sounds/reads that simply having a history of or diagnosis, despite you feeling healthy, is not going to be waived.