Waiver Denied

usnahopeful2014 said:
I just logged on to my DoDMERB account and saw that my USNA waiver was denied.

I was disqualified for renal calculus (history of kidney stones), history of head injury (concussion), and weak or painful back.

Can someone...anyone explain this to me because I have yet to get a satisfactory explanation. I have not had a kidney stone in over five years, my concussion was minor and I was released from the ER the same day I went, and my "weak or painful back" was normal back pain (caused by hmmm...Varsity Soccer, Varsity winter/spring track, black belt in martial arts maybe??) I wonder how I did so well on my CFA with all these ailments?

It is my understanding that if any "conditions" are conditions that WERE and not ARE...THEY DONT EFFECT YOU ANYMORE!!. I am quite literally in the best shape of my life, my doctor tells me i'm 100% healthy, my doctor that did my DoDMERB exam said I was in good health. So this tells me that someone who has never met me disqualified me based on a piece of paper. I refuse to allow someone who has never met me/seen what I can do tell me what I can't do.

Any suggestions on what I can do to fight this? I'll drive to Annapolis, fly to Colorado, do whatever it takes to convince whomever I need to that I am a perfectly healthy 18 year old.
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I know that this may not be of much comfort to you, but I think that there are some good reasons the waiver process is the way it is. Let me try to help you understand the process from a recent happening:

A young lady from my son's company, who was in excellent physical shape, had a history of back injury (sports injury). She left the academy a couple of weeks ago because her back pain reappeared, and remained unabated. She is now readjusting to civilian life. Now she is outside of the academy after forming deep bonds with her shipmates. Separations from a service academy are traumatic to the student, squad, and company.

Another student might be sitting in her classes right now, if it weren't a for a waiver.
Academy life is extremely stressful even for those who don't have health conditions or past injuries. My son's back has been bugging him for a week, and he never had back problems before.

Still, try hard. I wish you all the best.
 
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I appreciate it, but I think everyone needs to realize that there is never any way to be sure that nothing will happen to you. Perfectly healthy mids that have never had back pain could do something at the academy, hurt their back, and be dismissed just the same as someone like me. All I can say is that I continue my grueling schedule daily and have set to have any further "back issues."

Also I've spoken to USNA medical and I was cleared of the back pain and head injury by my doctors and thus those were non issues. As someone stated earlier in this thread, the smoking-gun is the kidney stones and I am pursuing a clearance on that as well. :thumb:
 
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