geinstrife
01-30-10, 05:11 PM
Hi everybody.
Went to MEPS this week for the physical and ASVAB testing. Blood work, hearing, sight, duck walk, height, weight, urinalysis... everything checked out. Earned a 99 on the ASVAB. I didn't swear in.
But I falsified the medical prescreen and signed it. I was obeying my recruiter like a dolt. Now I know where I stand - I only want to be in the Marines if my superiors know everything about me and still think there's a place for me. Otherwise, I have no business going to boot camp hiding secrets from my own comrades, from my own country.
My swearing-in day has been postponed so I can collect all the medical records I can find.
I'm not really worried about the records. I think based on the records I bring in to my recruiter, I'll have a great chance of getting in still.
But I started sleepwalking again. Last time this was happening was before I was 13.
At home the night before the MEPS trip, I got up out of bed, partly conscious but in a dreamy state, and threw my bed sheets in a pile on the other side of the room. Woke up freezing cold.
Next morning, my alarm woke me up at the hotel. Lo and behold, bed sheets up against the door. Two nights in a row, and since then I've been fine.
Terrible timing, right? Hey, if my recruiter doesn't want to hear about this, I'll tell the people at MEPS the day I'm supposed to swear in and see what happens.
Until then... thoughts?
Went to MEPS this week for the physical and ASVAB testing. Blood work, hearing, sight, duck walk, height, weight, urinalysis... everything checked out. Earned a 99 on the ASVAB. I didn't swear in.
But I falsified the medical prescreen and signed it. I was obeying my recruiter like a dolt. Now I know where I stand - I only want to be in the Marines if my superiors know everything about me and still think there's a place for me. Otherwise, I have no business going to boot camp hiding secrets from my own comrades, from my own country.
My swearing-in day has been postponed so I can collect all the medical records I can find.
I'm not really worried about the records. I think based on the records I bring in to my recruiter, I'll have a great chance of getting in still.
But I started sleepwalking again. Last time this was happening was before I was 13.
At home the night before the MEPS trip, I got up out of bed, partly conscious but in a dreamy state, and threw my bed sheets in a pile on the other side of the room. Woke up freezing cold.
Next morning, my alarm woke me up at the hotel. Lo and behold, bed sheets up against the door. Two nights in a row, and since then I've been fine.
Terrible timing, right? Hey, if my recruiter doesn't want to hear about this, I'll tell the people at MEPS the day I'm supposed to swear in and see what happens.
Until then... thoughts?