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Hope everyone is doing well!

DS got pilot; wanted specwar (I know, poor him, right?) We are now on the hunt for corrective eye advice. He spoke with his admin and she emailed him a link to the 900 page reg on vision. His advisor said, "Just let me know when it's done and I'll add it to your file." He is graduating in August, so plenty of time for recovery.

What is happening?! lol. Where are all the forms in triplicate, hoops to jump through, etc?

I have done a bunch of searches on saf and don't see any recent info.

We are in the Nashville area; he attends Auburn, so anywhere Alabama, and Atlanta is an hour-ish away. If anyone has some recommendations for surgeons, I would love them! We, of course, would want someone who is very knowledgeable with the military standards.
 
A current 1/c; I just got mine done. Ask his unit for a "page 13" which basically waives away your rights to keep your scholarship if the surgery does not go well. He also needs to submit a letter/packet from the surgeon detailing exactly how the process is going to go so it can be added to his medical file.

From my LT: "You should have done this in the past, but you are required to sign a page 13 stating that any issues that arise from an elective surgery falls on you and you can lose your commission as well as be required to pay back all scholarship money you have received. I just want to make sure you are aware of this and that you have a page 13 signed prior to the surgery."

That's it! Took 10 seconds to fill out the form. Good luck!
 
Super-informative posts - grateful for the details shared- thanks posters. Honestly alarming that the Navy puts the burden of risk and burden of paying for having elective corrective eye surgery on the NROTC midshipmen, while Annapolis attendees can have this procedure free of charge and many have it done (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/us/20eye.html). If their surgery goes wrong I assume the Annapolis attendees owe nothing back since it was done as part of their program - anyone know? Do Annapolis attendees have to sign the same page 13 which indemifies the NAvy and puts 100% of the risk on the midshipman if the procedure has complications? I doubt it. Interested if anyone has data on why the gap in how this is treated between one set of commissioning midshipmen and the other? I'm really interested to better understand this - I planned to pay for my DS's surgery on this so no problem, but again some NROTC mids aren't able to do so, easily.
 
Herman_Snerd said:
Super-informative posts - grateful for the details shared- thanks posters. Honestly alarming that the Navy puts the burden of risk and burden of paying for having elective corrective eye surgery on the NROTC midshipmen, while Annapolis attendees can have this procedure free of charge and many have it done (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/us/20eye.html). If their surgery goes wrong I assume the Annapolis attendees owe nothing back since it was done as part of their program - anyone know? Do Annapolis attendees have to sign the same page 13 which indemifies the NAvy and puts 100% of the risk on the midshipman if the procedure has complications? I doubt it. Interested if anyone has data on why the gap in how this is treated between one set of commissioning midshipmen and the other? I'm really interested to better understand this - I planned to pay for my DS's surgery on this so no problem, but again some NROTC mids aren't able to do so, easily.
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I'd imagine the reason for the difference is that USNA mids are considered active duty and NROTC mids are not. And if the USNA mida are able to get this done free of charge, They probably do not have the same page 13 referenced and face payback because, they would be assigned to have the surgery performed by a Navy doctor instead of being able to choose where it is performed.
 
Dumb Question.

Needing corrective vision (glasses, contacts) is not a disqualifying factor for Naval Aviation?

BTW Congratulations to your son! Wish him the best of luck!
 
cb7893 said:
Dumb Question.

Needing corrective vision (glasses, contacts) is not a disqualifying factor for Naval Aviation?

BTW Congratulations to your son! Wish him the best of luck!
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SNA requires your vision to be better than 20/40 uncorrected, SNFO is around 20/100 uncorrected...Personally I'm right at 20/40 and wear contacts for long distance vision improvement but I can get by fine without them
 
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