Waiver Help
A little background information on my specific situation:
I got accepted for an active duty pilot slot for the USAF in November 2008. It took 12 months to complete my flight physical and during that time I was informed that I had zero depth perception and would never be able to fly. Since I had no problems flying in the civilian world, I saw a specialist who did some tests and said there was no point in trying to correct or fix it because I showed no signs of depth perception problems outside of infinite distant eye tests. Then I get a call from my recruiter who wanted to schedule the rest of the physical. I told him that I was disqualified and he said not to worry about it.
Six months after my flight physical, I got a call from the medical facility and they told me I qualified! After, they told me I qualified for an air battle manager . Then just to make sure I could not view the glass as half full, they called back and told me that there were no air battle manager jobs available.
I called my recruiter who told me the medical facility should not have contacted me. He finally got back to me with the reasons I was disqualified and they are: Binocular vision disorder, diplopia, and hypertropia. I have a copy of AFI 48-123 and all I could get out of it was that uncorrectable diplopia is not waiverable (I don’t know if mine is correctable). I tried to talk with my recruiter about a waiver, but he is not too sure what to do. He just kept telling me how easy this problem is to fix for enlisted people.
I was wondering if anyone has any advice or can direct me to other resources. Surgery is an option for some cases, but two doctors told me that even though I might be able to pass the tests, I probably would not notice anything different in my vision.