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Question about medical requirements

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Al. Poison

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I'm working on my application for OCS and I was just wondering the likelihood of getting rejected based on medical requirements. I have had two previous surgeries, one on my knee for a lateral meniscus repair, and one on my upper jaw for a maxillofacial correction. I run regularly 3-5 miles. There were no complications and both surgeons have declared me fit and I have letters from both, as well as the medical records. Does anyone have any input on this?

I am going for Pilot/NFO btw.
 
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guffster

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Should be fine, as long as you are 100% good to go now. You might run into a little bit of trouble if either were within a couple years.

I have had two sports related joint surgeries, one of which was within about a year and a half. I was initially declared not physically qualified by Big Navy, but I went into my doctor for an up to date check-up, and he wrote a letter as well. Turned that in to my recruiter and about an hour later I had my MEPS physical scheduled.

I would guess that most of the people applying for OCS have had relatively routine surgeries like this.
 
Popo Jijo

Popo Jijo

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Al. Poison said:
I'm working on my application for OCS and I was just wondering the likelihood of getting rejected based on medical requirements. I have had two previous surgeries, one on my knee for a lateral meniscus repair, and one on my upper jaw for a maxillofacial correction. I run regularly 3-5 miles. There were no complications and both surgeons have declared me fit and I have letters from both, as well as the medical records. Does anyone have any input on this?

I am going for Pilot/NFO btw.
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This is a question that can't really be answered. Each case is different. When you get your physical at MEPS, then you will know. Some things are waiverable, some are not. But like guffster said, you need to be 100% good to go now. Good luck with your application.
 
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exNavyOffRec

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Al. Poison said:
I'm working on my application for OCS and I was just wondering the likelihood of getting rejected based on medical requirements. I have had two previous surgeries, one on my knee for a lateral meniscus repair, and one on my upper jaw for a maxillofacial correction. I run regularly 3-5 miles. There were no complications and both surgeons have declared me fit and I have letters from both, as well as the medical records. Does anyone have any input on this?

I am going for Pilot/NFO btw.
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Go see an OR and he or she will schedule you for a physical, you will have to get a green light from N3M (for basic entrance requirements) and eventually NAMI (for aviation requirements)

I have seen people cleared for things I didn't think they would and I have seen people DQ'd for items I though would be fine so until you have the physical who knows, my gut feeling is that stuff will be OK, but only the doctor who makes the final decision will know for sure as there are some things where you can be 100% back to normal but you will be DQ'd because the standard is "any history of".
 
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mhunter

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I just went through this as well. I had the same knee surgery done almost ten years ago and shoulder surgery done almost 3. I made sure I had all of my surgical documents together to give to my OR. He sent that over and got me cleared to physical at MEPS. Following MEPS I was DQed on my N3M for both my shoulder and knee until I saw an orthopedic doctor. The N3M outlined what it wanted the doctor to evaluate. I turned that in to navy med and was cleared within a day. Nothing to sweat about. It is just one more hoop to jump through. Good luck!
 
Dangy

Dangy

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Just because you are PQ at MEPs doesn't mean NAMI will guarantee to PQ you. Be prepared to ask yourself whether you want to be either a naval officer or a naval aviator. There were quite a few people who were medically disqualified from being a pilot, and some from aviation completely, weeks into OCS.

That being said, you never know what the likelihood of your chances until they reject you.
 
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Al. Poison

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Just wanted to give an update on this thread. I made it through MEPS pretty handily, they passed all my paperwork and the doc. didn't have any problems with my medical history, it seemed pretty routine. They gave me 20/20 corrected vision in both eyes but then came back a week later and said I was uncorrectable, so I had to go see a seperate eye doctor for a vision test and he corrected me down to 20/15 and said "your prescription isn't even that bad" (I didn't know it but i have a slight astigmatism, 20/30 left eye 20/25 right eye). Gave me the paperwork and I submitted it to the recruiter, now i'm off to the selection board, see what happens.
 
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exNavyOffRec

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Al. Poison said:
Just wanted to give an update on this thread. I made it through MEPS pretty handily, they passed all my paperwork and the doc. didn't have any problems with my medical history, it seemed pretty routine. They gave me 20/20 corrected vision in both eyes but then came back a week later and said I was uncorrectable, so I had to go see a seperate eye doctor for a vision test and he corrected me down to 20/15 and said "your prescription isn't even that bad" (I didn't know it but i have a slight astigmatism, 20/30 left eye 20/25 right eye). Gave me the paperwork and I submitted it to the recruiter, now i'm off to the selection board, see what happens.
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one more step in the process, once N3M comes back with a PQ letter you will be off to the board.
 
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