Unlike other SAs where cadets/midshipmen are considered AD and their healthcare is fully covered, USMMA healthcare for their midshipmen is different. See link below.
Office of Health Services (OHS) Mission To optim
www.usmma.edu
Whatever you do, do not get corrective eye surgery on your own, or you risk disqualification from Navy aviation. Standards are more stringent.
Best advice I can give you is call the USMMA Naval Science Department and discuss with a primary source. I don’t know whether there is any paid avenue for that or any way to get the procedure approved outside of the military TRICARE healthcare system.
Sending up a flare to
@kp2001 KP grad and Navy doc.
Or perhaps someone has direct experience.
If you go outside SAF, and use Google to Search “service academy Forums PRK refractive eye surgery,” all kinds of links to past discussions come up. Sample:
Hello, I know USNA offers laser eye surgery to qualified midshipmen in their third year. Can a NROTC Midshipman also receive laser eye surgery from the navy?
www.serviceacademyforums.com