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Hello old freind - it's been a year since I posted - glad to hear you're still moderating things here! My son continues to rehab his swollen knees after being given a Medical Turnback during the middle of the 2011 BCT at the Air Force Academy. Our orthopedic doc is telling us that one way to...

if the student is injured before arriving on campus for that first week in the fall? I.e. do they have restrictions (like USNA or AFA) that you must be in good physical condition? I.e. no casts, splints, recent surgeries, etc? And if you get one of these injuries during the summer before you...

As you know, my son's knee's made it thru the AF and USNA waiver-granted procees but he just landed a 4 yr NROTC scholarship too and thus DODMERB posted this new one today - I assume this is what we would expect to see? Agency: US Navy ROTC Current Medical Status ( as of 3/15/2007) ...

Can anyone shed any light on the process of being "blue chipped" by an AFA head coach? Son was told he was going to be submitted for this designation tomorrow regarding a spot on their rifle team. Sounds like it might speed up the appointment process (FYI that his nom(s) are already in place...

Hey Doc - I posted this on another site today as a reply to someone elses' question, but figured if anyone knew if new rules were being put into place at DODMERB / USNA, you would. Care to comment on what the rep at DODMERB told me on the phone today? Thanks as always! Thought I'd pass...

On the DODMERB site today my son's status for USNA changed from "Pending Waiver Review" to the following "Waiver Granted" (and the following): D224.90 - Chronic retro patellar knee pain syndrome, history of D257.70 - Unaided distant visual acuity worse than 20/40 D259.10 - Waiver Approved...

Well, it looks like we got past one DQ (knees) only to find out about another one hiding in the woodpile. Son's AFA website was just updated to show he was now "Commision Qualified" so we thought we on the way (already got Nom)! But today I found out that his stated "Commision Qualified"...

We recently sent in a Request for Rebutal to DODMERB for a waiverable DQ. Today's check of their website found the following comment at the top of the list: Correspondence - Multi-Service Disqualification Removal - Waived: 12/28/2006 Now the letter we sent in was two or more weeks ago...

I am hearing that some candidates are getting CVW invites this past month. Anyone on this board got one yet? My son, hoever, will need a waiver from USNA to get past the DQ that DODMERB hit him with last month. Seems that if you have ever had surgery on your knees (like he did 2 yrs ago)...

Just posted this on the USNA forum but then saw this forum, so here it is again....this is for my son Mike who's applying to the USNA and AF: I called DODMERB yesterday to followup on some additional medical paperwork they had requested and the woman told me that DODMERB had just mailed us a...

I called DODMERB yesterday to followup on some additional medical paperwork they had requested and the woman told me that DODMERB had just mailed us a letter advising son Mike was going to be disqualified. Mike had some minor arthroscopic surgery to his knees when he was 14 to let his...