Waiver Not Recommended (Deferment vs. Appeal)

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Hello! About a month ago I received a conditional appointment for the USCGA. This is conditional on receiving a waiver for my ACL reconstruction surgery that I underwent in early November. Unfortunately, I was not recommended for a waiver. My options now are: 1. Request a deferment for next year, 2. Reapply for the next class, 3. Appeal my case. Now, it sounds like pursuing an appeal takes very long time and will almost certainly mean not joining the Class of 2025 even if I get the appeal. My question is, why would one appeal over requesting deferment? It seems that deferment would solidify a spot for next year's class, especially in my case where I have recovered from my injury. Is there something I am not understanding?
 
I assume you mean class of 2026, this years intake is class of 2025. I can’t speak from personal experience but if I was in your position I would request the deferment.
 
HockeyGuy said:
Hello! About a month ago I received a conditional appointment for the USCGA. This is conditional on receiving a waiver for my ACL reconstruction surgery that I underwent in early November. Unfortunately, I was not recommended for a waiver. My options now are: 1. Request a deferment for next year, 2. Reapply for the next class, 3. Appeal my case. Now, it sounds like pursuing an appeal takes very long time and will almost certainly mean not joining the Class of 2025 even if I get the appeal. My question is, why would one appeal over requesting deferment? It seems that deferment would solidify a spot for next year's class, especially in my case where I have recovered from my injury. Is there something I am not understanding?
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This seems like a question that you should take up with your AO or Capt. Fredie. Good luck!
 
HockeyGuy said:
Hello! About a month ago I received a conditional appointment for the USCGA. This is conditional on receiving a waiver for my ACL reconstruction surgery that I underwent in early November. Unfortunately, I was not recommended for a waiver. My options now are: 1. Request a deferment for next year, 2. Reapply for the next class, 3. Appeal my case. Now, it sounds like pursuing an appeal takes very long time and will almost certainly mean not joining the Class of 2025 even if I get the appeal. My question is, why would one appeal over requesting deferment? It seems that deferment would solidify a spot for next year's class, especially in my case where I have recovered from my injury. Is there something I am not understanding?
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I'm in the same position. From what I understand, you have to be fully recovered and discharged from PT, surgeon, etc., before they'll even consider granting your waiver. So say, for example, you reach said recovery point, and they already denied your waiver, you could appeal the Academy's decision and go through the CG headquarters. The problem with appealing is the fact they say it takes upwards of 6 months, so I think theoretically, for this to work out for someone with a major injury, they would have to have been fully recovered and denied their waiver by November 15 of 2020 the latest to have a waiver in hand by the 2025 conditional appointment cut off date of May 15, 2021. I don't know whether the 6-month timeline they provide is typical, but to me, it seems like there are very few injury cases where this would work out favorably. It definitely works on a case-by-case basis. Like you, I'm planning on the deferment.
 
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