Possible to receive appointment while waiver is pending?
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A1Janitor
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You need a waiver to be 3q. You need to be 3q to be appointed.
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If you are currently "DQ" per DODMERB, you will not receive an appointment.
If a waiver is granted (DODMERB says the condition is waiverable and USAFA/RR requests the waiver from the waivering authority and its granted, THEN you are eligible.
If a waiver is granted (DODMERB says the condition is waiverable and USAFA/RR requests the waiver from the waivering authority and its granted, THEN you are eligible.
Peruvian_Pedgy
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You can receive an appointment. My appointment is "conditional until we receive confirmation from DODMERB that you are medically qualified"
flyhigh908
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What happens if we have our appointment, then something medical happens to where we get disqualified (but assure it with get reviewed and pass), will they still honor that appointment once you’ve been cleared?
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Just take note of the fact a conditional appointment can be offered. If you don’t meet the condition, it will be withdrawn. This differs from being offered an appointment with no conditions or requirements, because the candidate is fully qualified.
Or, the candidate can wait, with no offer of appointment of any kind, until the medical qualification is resolved. Medical decisions can go well into the spring. A waiver is also no guarantee of an offer of appointment. Prepare your mind for the full range of outcomes and hope for the best.
__blues1722
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yes, i didn't get medically qualified until basically a week before I-Day, but I got a conditional appt in April.
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Any changes to your medical history needs to be reported to DODMERB. Pretty sure there is an agreement that you do this, on the medical forms. Not sure what you are asking, but if you are medically cleared, and subsequently injured, you need to report it.
If all is good? It’s no big deal. If it needs a further look? More information will be requested. But do it asap to avoid delays.
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Please confirm - you have not updated your medical history with DoDMERB as required for changes to your history since you first submitted the form? If you wait until April, and only then does new information get looked at, evaluated, decisions made, information requested, you put the SAs into a difficult situation. You are courting a DQ with no room for maneuver, by withholding information and reducing the window for all concerned to work through it together. The SA may also wonder why your first instinct was to delay. Were you planning on accepting an appointment if offered, knowing you had an active medical issue and the SA didn’t?
If you haven’t informed DoDMERB of this diagnosis, planned treatment and timeline, I strongly recommend you do so. That allows SA Admissions to get up to speed and monitor the situation. DoDMERB can tell you what medical records, notes, opinions, they need to see right now, in the interim and in April. If there is bad news - a DQ - either permanent or temporary - you’ll know it sooner and can adjust.
These things happen - illness or injury in the spring. If you are DQ’ed from attending THIS YEAR, perhaps because medical wants to see how you are a year from now, Admissions will typically work with appointment and LOA-holders to game out a path to a seat in the next class, pending return to fully medically qualified status.
The head-in-sand tactic is not usually successful for junior officers. Step up and deal with it - everyone knows you have worked hard for this, and USNA just have you an LOA.
Let us know how it goes.