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Originally Posted by Nuke
I was scheduled to leave for basic June 6th on an 18X contract but looks like I'm going to have to postpone that until I recover.
For the first two weeks the doc said to not do anything at all so my body works on healing my bones and not everything else. I guess that makes sense but I’m already going crazy. LOL
My doc said I should set my ship date to 6 months from now. That seemed a little long myself.
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Now you get to learn two important lessons the hard way.
#1 - Do what your Doctor tells you or pay the price for the rest of your life. Where do you think rucksack straps are going to apply pressure? What about LBE, body armor, parachute harnesses, etc.? Think carefully before answering.
#2 - Why do you think we discourage "high-risk sports" while students are in the pipeline? Students in the Q-course are prohibited from skydiving, scuba diving, etc. and discouraged from participating in a wide range of other "hazardous" activities. The Army is considering investing a lot of resources into your training. If you get damaged as a result of that training, it's considered the "breaks of the game" and you will most likely be compensated. If you get "bent, folded, spindled, or mutilated" on your own time as a result of poor judgement (almost any activity you can imagine that derives from an inverse ratio of testosteron to common sense), the resulting investigation is likely to return a "not in the line of duty" ruling. Then you are out in the cold and the Army has wasted a lot of time and money for zero return.
Hopefully the required delay won't cancel your contract. Not to mention that now you also have to figure out how to get in shape without impeding your recovery and do it in whatever time you have left between the Dr's OK and reporting to OSUT. My .02 - Peregrino
BTW - Don't get me wrong. We want ballsey characters - we just require them to temper it with good judgement. Otherwise you're just another candidate for the Darwin Awards. And the bursting radius of "Oh F**K" almost always includes somebody who didn't deserve it.