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Empire16

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Nax said:
I am currently in primary and I have an asthma waiver. I am only required to keep an inhaler on me at all times when I fly (not that I need or use it). It is entirely dependent on how severe your symptoms, if you have any, are. Your general service waiver will be handled at MEPS. They handled my waiver process after I graduated from OCS, and they sent me down to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. where they did a full battery of cardio-pulmonary tests, then sent it to NAMI.

Edit: After graduating OCS, I was kept in Student Pool there for a few months for the waiver process. NAMI takes time, unfortunately.
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I am already selected. Just curious about the future. The only NAMI concern is 5 years without a prescription filled but, that is mainly due to my mom just using my prescription/it being a family inhaler in case of an emergency. I haven't had to use it for an emergency in many many many years I dont even recall. I already had a PFT and passed. For those at OCS how hard is it to get a waiver?
 
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Nax

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Empire16 said:
I am already selected. Just curious about the future. The only NAMI concern is 5 years without a prescription filled but, that is mainly due to my mom just using my prescription/it being a family inhaler in case of an emergency. I haven't had to use it for an emergency in many many many years I dont even recall. I already had a PFT and passed. For those at OCS how hard is it to get a waiver?
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At OCS its really a tossup, no real way to predict it short of having a good PFT. The past medication might raise issues depending on how long ago it was. Usually anything past 7 is a red flag, but I had medications in the past 3 due to Air Force shenanigans.

However if you have a good PFT, maybe they will probably have you do an Methacholine Challenge Test as well and if that's good then you should be golden.

I had to go through a full battery of tests simply because my PFT was abnormal.
 
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