Originally Posted by kalyx522

Thank you. When you were rejected, how did you finally make it through? Did you keep on hounding them (who?) for ETC/retests/waivers? What if they tell you no, it's not possible, do you just try to contact the next person in the chain? I ask because when I first found out I disqualified, the medical personnel were telling me you can't get a pilot slot, too bad, end of story. And I knew that wasn't true. My recruiter is also telling me that if it was something that could've been waiverable they would've processed it right there on the spot, and that there is only so much he can do. Basically he doesn't seem to be willing to help me out at all and maybe that's because he's the only officer accessions recruiter for several states and is swamped with other candidates. So I don't expect any help from him.

I didnt know that about the USMC. He does have USMC memorabilia all over his hangar/office.. will have to ask him about it on my next physical.



It's called applanation tonometry. That's the test I did at the civ doc. At McGuire, they first did the puffer and I came out with some crazy high figure like 34 which means I have glaucoma and should be half blind by now so obviously the puffer test was not accurate. So then they gave me the applanation tonometry test a few minutes later and that's when I got 22.
My recruiter told me straight up that he doesn't think I have a chance so I don't think I should even bother with him. Unfortunately for AFRES candidates I don't think I have a choice of switching recruiters so I will just have to try to work with my unit on this problem unless my chief pilot can maybe put some pressure on the recruiter.