Thoughtbthis also applied.
buff81
23rd March 2010, 03:12 AM
The AMA might want to take note of 2 new afflictions spreading across the country:
Service Academy/ROTC Admissions Statusosis (SARAS) and Current Medical Status Syndrome (CMSS).
These affect a very specialized segment of the population- candidates and parents of candidates of our nation’s Service Academies and ROTC programs. The first sign is when logging on daily to DoDMERB turns into logging on constantly throughout the day and night. The symptoms usually emerge around Christmas and reach a roaring obsession by March and April.
Symptoms include:
- Worn off numbers and letters on keyboard that correlate to the username and password
- Being late to work or school b/c you are checking DoDMERB ‘just one more time’
- When the 10 minutes between updates seems like an eternity
- Calluses form on fingertips
- “What does this mean?!!!!” e-mail sent to Larry Mullen or posted on SAF when a date changes on status
- Family members brush up on CPR in case you have ‘the big one’ when offered/withdrawn or waiver granted/denied finally appears
- Having heart palpitations while waiting for the page to load
- The mailman feels rejected
- Friends, co-workers and extended family know what DoDMERB is
- There is a designated bottle of wine/sparkling grape juice in your cabinet just in case there is cause for celebration
- Finding comfort with people you’ve never met before on SAF because no one else really knows what you are going through
- The terms ‘ remedial’, ‘Concorde’, ‘waiver’, ‘in process’, and ‘DQ’ become part of your normal vocabulary
- Parents have rehearsed what they will say to DS or DD when the news comes- good or bad
- Experiencing withdrawals now that DoDMERB does not include admissions status
Treatment: None available. These symptoms occur over such a short period of time that implementing a 12-step program is not feasible. However, symptoms quickly dissipate once BFE or TWE arrives in the mail.
WARNING: Symptoms MAY reappear when another sibling/child opens a file.
Signed: a parent fully recovered from CMSS.
I thought this again applied here as well. We have received our word, via application staus page, from usmma and are thrilled and can exhale,,,,,for now
I hope this copy/ paste works, here goes nothin'.