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AirForceVet

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Hello, I am new here and hope you all can help with a question:

If DODMERB lists two reasons to disqualify and send your file to the waiver review board, is there any way to tell which issue the waiver was denied for, or if it was both? I contacted the technician assigned from DODMERB (this is for a 4 year AFROTC scholarship) and he said they are not told because the Air Force makes the determination.

Since we received no letter from the Air Force, only a status change on the DOD MERB website, it seems we have no choice but to try to document better a case for both issues in the very short time I have. Is there a way to find out the reason for the waiver denial from the Air Force? Thanks very much!
 
AirForceVet said:
Hello, I am new here and hope you all can help with a question:

If DODMERB lists two reasons to disqualify and send your file to the waiver review board, is there any way to tell which issue the waiver was denied for, or if it was both? I contacted the technician assigned from DODMERB (this is for a 4 year AFROTC scholarship) and he said they are not told because the Air Force makes the determination.

Since we received no letter from the Air Force, only a status change on the DOD MERB website, it seems we have no choice but to try to document better a case for both issues in the very short time I have. Is there a way to find out the reason for the waiver denial from the Air Force? Thanks very much!
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Call the Air Force waiver authority and ask for clarification. The worst they can do is say no.
 
AirForceVet said:
I have never even heard of that- I will look it up- thanks!!
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The waiver authority is different for each academy, and potentially different within each service for their academy and ROTC. I was using the lower case waiver authority, not the upper case Waiver Authority, as that term is not likely to be in Air Force phone book. State whether the waiver was denied for an academy application or ROTC, and someone here can probably chime in naming the waiver authority for your situation. Or look it up. I believe it is listed in Mullen's memo on the DoDMERB site.
 
Thanks- it is Air Force ROTC. I read that memo over pretty carefully.... and everything seems to just stop once they send it to the Air Force for waiver consideration. I am at the step after the waiver is denied and I have to go through the rebuttal process. One rebuttal will be easy, the other will be hard not because my DS is ill; but because I was overcautious and kept getting his inhaler refilled since the original one expired and because I wanted a non out-dated one "just in case." We have no record of the exact last time he used it... only that it was around age 14 we believe. Their cutoff is the 13th birthday. Trying to prove you had a breather but didn't use the breather is pretty challenging to do.
Edited to remove my lament:).
 
AF Vet-- I am not a doctor

The AFROTC medical waiver authority is the Air Education and Training Command's (AETC's) Command Surgeon (or Surgeon General -- the terms are used interchangeably.)

http://www.aetc.af.mil/About-Us/
http://www.aetc.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/
http://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article...-last-hope-for-every-recruits-medical-waiver/
http://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article...bers-team-up-to-support-14-units-two-centers/

Have your DS contact them and inform them that he would like to appeal their determination, and if necessary, appeal to the AETC Command Surgeon/Surgeon General. A respectful letter written by your DS to the Command Surgeon detailing what you have outlined in your posts, and explaining how this condition has had no impact in his life (sports, school attendance, AFROTC participation, etc.) may be helpful to your appeal.

Sincere best wishes to you and your DS and thank you for his willingness to serve
 
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