Will I require a waiver, C/O ‘30

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bwag07

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Hello I’m applying for USAFA c/o ‘30 later this year and I’m a bit fearful about clearing DoDMERB. After attending summer seminar, I realized the silliness that can get people disqualified/delay their offer of appointment. I am perfectly healthy (to the best of my knowledge), but technically my medical history contains me having 1 episode of tachycardia at 6. When I was younger, I was caught off guard by a fire alarm (as is everybody) and felt my heart beating out off my chest for a couple minutes. A couple days later, the doctor put me on a heart monitor for a day, and the device said I had 1 episode during that day. I was at an outdoors birthday party and was running around, so the device could’ve took my elevated heart rate as an episode. I had multiple perfectly fine echocardiograms in the months and years after, haven’t had any “episodes” since, and thus haven’t been to a cardiologist since I was 8. I’m currently a football and track athlete, and haven’t had any problems with my heart in sports. I know nobody can know for sure, but will this necessitate a waiver? USAFA is my top choice, and I’d hate to potentially lose out for a foolish reason.
 
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There’s no saying what DoDMERB will do or request until you go through it. That being said, my son had to repeat his echocardiogram and EKG to show it was normal, and he was cleared just fine. My guess is they’ll want you to do the same - repeat echo, EKG, and halter. And go from there. Best of luck to you!
 
bwag07 said:
Hello I’m applying for USAFA c/o ‘30 later this year and I’m a bit fearful about clearing DoDMERB. After attending summer seminar, I realized the silliness that can get people disqualified/delay their offer of appointment. I am perfectly healthy (to the best of my knowledge), but technically my medical history contains me having 1 episode of tachycardia at 6. When I was younger, I was caught off guard by a fire alarm (as is everybody) and felt my heart beating out off my chest for a couple minutes. A couple days later, the doctor put me on a heart monitor for a day, and the device said I had 1 episode during that day. I was at an outdoors birthday party and was running around, so the device could’ve took my elevated heart rate as an episode. I had multiple perfectly fine echocardiograms in the months and years after, haven’t had any “episodes” since, and thus haven’t been to a cardiologist since I was 8. I’m currently a football and track athlete, and haven’t had any problems with my heart in sports. I know nobody can know for sure, but will this necessitate a waiver? USAFA is my top choice, and I’d hate to potentially lose out for a foolish reason.
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It’s not silly. Standards are there for a reason. Don’t be afraid of going through the process. If it’s something that doesn’t matter, there is a process for that. And if is something that does matter? Then it matters.

A DQ is the ‘meet/doesnt meet’ against a set standard. Beyond that, each program (USAF in your case) can waive (or not) a DQ.

Good luck to you on your application journey!!
 
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