Can you join the air force if you have a learning disability?
Military Medical Standards for Enlistment & Commission Personality, conduct, and behavior disorders The causes for rejection for appointment, enlistment, and induction (without an approved waiver) are an authenticated history of: d. Specific academic skills defects, chronic history of academic skills (314) or perceptual defects (315), secondary to organic or functional mental disorders that interfere with work or school after age 12. Current use of medication to improve or maintain academic skills. MEPS changed their acceptance standards for ADD/ADHD, effective on 4 June 2004. Under the new standards, a history of ADD/ADHD is disqualifying if the applicant has been on medication within the past 12 months, and/or if the applicant shows any significant impulsivity or inattention traits. Applicants who have been off medication for longer than 12 months and do not show any significant impulsivity or inattention during MEPS processing may now be accepted for enlistment.
I have pku can i join the airforce?
Im 18 and i am trying to get into the military. I take some pills that allows me to eat a normal diet and i can go a week or two without them and be okay if i was to get into a combat situation. is it possible for me to get into the air force or any branch? I know that your not supposed to take pills in basic but i have friends that have been to basic that say they have seen people take them before. Any info helps
Joining the air force with being prescribed Adderall?
I am 18 and recently decided to get in shape and join he air force but, the only concern I have it I was prescribed adderall a few years ago but I don't take it on a daily basis. Just when I have school. It helps me focus and not daydream in class. But, I can function without it! And while not taking it my grades have remained the same. I just want to know what are the requirement for such a thing? Can I join? Or having a history of ADD and taking ADD medication disqualify me?
Will getting fired from my job affect me from joining the Air Force?
The Recruiters don't contact employers for references, unless you were being processed for a moral waiver. But, if your job requires a Top Secret security clearance, a background investigator will be sent out to talk with people who knew you; family, friends, employers, teachers, etc. They will ask them about your character. But if everyone else says you are of good character, and only one says you were a thief, they will take into consideration the weight of all the evidence, where most people think you are a person of good character. Since the employer didn't press charges, that would also be weighed in your favor. EDIT: Okay, you are stressing over something that probably isn't even an issue to begin with. When (or if) a background investigation is done, they evaluate the whole person. There are people who have high security clearances that have bigger problems in their past than what you are having, and they still got the clearance. Look at it this way, stressing over this isn't going to change anything you are doing now. It has happened. Now you continue on with life and move on. Stressing over something you have no control over is only going to drive you crazy, and 90% of the crap we worry about never happens. So just relax. It is out of your hands now.
Can I join the air force if I have hypothyroidism?
Yes you can join with hypothyroidism as long as it is controlled. Stress, physical activity and diet have nothing to do with your hormone levels. As long as you are on a stabalized dosage of medication that you take as prescribed and get your thyroid labs done regularly you will be fine. I am a doctor currently deployed in Iraq and I have hyptothyroidism and I work out 2x day, sweat my *** off and eat this horrible DFAC food 3xday for the past 10 months and I am fine. Just make sure you tell the people when you sign up or when they shake down your bags they will want to know what your medications are for and may take them from you if its not in your records.
If you suffer from migraines, can you join the Air Force?
on your DD form 2807 (health history questionaire) you will be asked: Do you now, or have you ever suffered from severe headaches that cause you to miss work or school, or do you now or have you ever had to take medication to prevent severe headaches. If you answer yes, you will be disqualified.
Should I enlist in the Air Force at the age of 33? I’m feeling my call.
I enlisted at age 35, and did one deployment to Afghanistan at 37. I outdid most of the younger peeps on my PT test.I’m going against the grain and say yes, as long as you understands what that means. If you are willing to enlist you would only do it to go active duty, this means, working for the Air Force full time.Go active duty. This way you get all the benefits there are. Including a pension eventually.Active duty means you will have to move when they tell you to move. If this is ok for your wife and 4 kids, then go for it. They can usually go to school on the base.Active duty means that if you live on base, they pay for your housing. If you live outside base, they give you money to pay for housingKnow that someone at age 22 can be yelling at you. You will be surrounded by a lot of young people, a lot of them outrank youMake sure that you list your Associate degree, so that you can enter as an E-3, get paid as an E-3, rather than E-1. Enlisted ranks are E-1 through E-9.Air Force is the correct branch to go. Do not join the army. That’s what I did. That’s the only mistake I did, joined the army, ended up looking for bombs in Afghanistan. The Air Force is the “most common sense applied” branch. None of them are common sense, but there is a relative ranking between the branches.The benefits are incredible. If you feel stuck at a dead end job, and you think Department of Defense can be interesting, enlisting is not a bad way to go. Once you qualify for school benefits and put in enough years, you can pass them on to your kids.Are your wife and kids ok with you being gone while you do basic training and your “job” training? During this time, you will not be home, and they will not house your family. For me, this was 6 months.You can qualify to student loan repayment as one of the benefits. This will take care of some of your only debt that you may have.So, long story short, if you feel stuck, do it. Understand that they may treat you like an 18 year old, and if you are ok with that, you will not have an issue. Take it seriously, promote as soon as you can, and always do a great job, regardless of peers that may look at it as a temporary phase of their life and not give a shit.
Can a person with BiPolar, ADHD, and Depression join the Air Force?
Edit add: I was diagnosed with these problems after a large series of tragedies occurred in my life about 10 years ago. I'm perfectly capable of leading a normal life without medication and honestly, I've been off my medication for a while and I'm fine. I'm raising a normal, healthy child and I assure you I handle stress constantly on an every day basis and manage fine. Bipolar is not a multiple personality disorder, wtf to whoever said that. I constantly question whether I even had these disorders but was made to go see a shrink after these tragedies, and yes, they hit me hard but shrinks are eager to give medication as opposed to just talking it out so that's what I've been going along with for the past 10 years.
New rules on anxiety medication keeping me from the Military...still?
I've been wanting to join the military for about a year and a half. My initial goal was to join the Air Force. The first time I walked into their office, I was told that due to the medication my doctor had prescribed me I would have to wait 6 months after being off of it to enlist. I was taking Celexa, but he only prescribed it to me for anxiety. I had never been on a medication before. I went to my doctor because my grandfather was very ill, I was having problems at work, and problems with my girlfriend at the time. I went to my doctor to help me through this short tough spot. I was on the medication about 7 months, as recommended by my doctor. I've now been off the meds for about 11 months and I walked back into the AF office. The recruiter told me that now the rule is 2 YEARS I have to wait after being off the meds. Can they just keep pushing the date back indefinitely? It seems unfair that I waited and worked with them, only to be sent away again. I understand they're overflowing with enlistees, but this seems a bit ridiculous. The recruiter told me that they will not do waivers for it at all, that the rule is for medications prescribed for anxiety and/or ADHD, and that the other branches may actually work with me still. My second choice is Army. Would I have better luck with them? Thanks in advance for any responses.
Do United States Air Force recruiters really lie (or tell recruits to lie) as much as people say they do?
My experience was with the U.S. Army.Considering the experience I got in the Army the last person who I have any issues with was my recruiter. He was an earnest, honest SSG who went out of his way to find me the softest, sweetest billet around. He had a slot for me to become a veterinary tech. I did not take that job. One of my supervisors in my permanent party unit in Germany chewed me out for not taking the job.It turns out the job was a really sweet gig. A small minority of the techs work with animals. Mostly pets but a few get assigned to deal with large animals. 9-5 with no night duty. That last part might have been a lie. Most of the techs spent time in back of the commissary checking out if the FDA stamps were in order and go back to playing spades or sleeping. Had I taken the job, I would have finished my college degree and probably finished a masters degree. I did enlist but my choice literally drove him up the wall. I became an infantryman. He was so upset, he refused to close the deal.