Vision Acuity

[usnaapplicant]

My DoDMERB portal has shown me as medically “Qualified” as of yesterday. However, I was reading the text below my letter posted on the page and it mentions that worse than 20/40 vision acuity is not eligible for the Naval Acadrmy. Is my optometrist exam included in the medical exam result because it was required as well, or is it a different portal in which I have to find out if I am qualified or not? I’m not sure how vision acuity correlates with prescription, but my prescription is -3.25 (nearsighted), which I think is worse than 20/40 without contacts (required to not have contacts in during exam). I guess I’m just not sure if being medically qualified applied to my eye exam results alongside my physical exam results.

 

[jaglvr]

should be included

 

[GoCubbies]

My DoDMERB portal has shown me as medically “Qualified” as of yesterday. However, I was reading the text below my letter posted on the page and it mentions that worse than 20/40 vision acuity is not eligible for the Naval Acadrmy. Is my optometrist exam included in the medical exam result because it was required as well, or is it a different portal in which I have to find out if I am qualified or not? I’m not sure how vision acuity correlates with prescription, but my prescription is -3.25 (nearsighted), which I think is worse than 20/40 without contacts (required to not have contacts in during exam). I guess I’m just not sure if being medically qualified applied to my eye exam results alongside my physical exam results.

So long as you’re correctable to 20/20 with an uncorrected visual acuity of 20/40, then you meet standards.

The standard for refraction is no worse than + or -8 diopters. You are within standards with sphere of -3.25.

You can’t really correlate refraction with visual acuity. Two different things. Before I got PRK, my visual acuity was 20/400 uncorrected but refraction was -3.25 to -3.50.

If you show qualified, then that’s for both your physical and eye exams