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Why are you using Dub's account? We do not share accounts here.
You can request a waiver. I wouldn't count on getting it.
Not just you, but once again, I have to wonder at why people who have potentially serious long-term health problems want to get into a unit with long, isolated missions in austere environments and endanger others to take care of them.
The regs are there because if you are with your team in the middle of nowhere, Asscrackistan, 300 miles from the nearest medical facility, and your scrip runs out, there will be no Eckerd's to go to for a handy refill. Then, when you are eating local crap and MREs, you have another episode with your airway problems and an 18D (or less) is trying to keep you alive with what he has in his ruck. Now an entire aircrew is put at risk, flying at night, blacked out, through mountains at 16,000' elevation, to haul your sorry ass out.
Or your bad knee gives way in the middle of a cross country movement to a hit, and your teammates are forced to carry you and fail in their mission, or leave you alone, halfway between a rock and a hard place.
Or you are on OP and your color blindness prevents you from seeing an enemy sapper team working their way into your perimeter.
Or you are on a HALO infil, at 13,000' when your LASIK corneal flap blows off, and you cannot see your teammates, or your altimeter.
This is not some High School sports BS we are talking about. This is serious business with hard men on both sides, and the consequences are deadly.
If you do not see the risk to your potential teammates, even if you are the only one killed, or to your family, which would not knowingly let you go into combat without being properly prepared, you are selfish and are missing the larger point.
Thank you for your desire to serve. Thank you for your patriotism. That is laudable, especially today.
But think long and hard, and be honest with yourself and others. The medical regs exist for a reason, and for good reason, they are more stringent for SF. You may request a waiver. If it is disapproved, accept it and find some other way to serve.
Good luck.
TR
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