Greetings to all of the men and women viewing this thread, and thank you for your interest in the well being of America. I am writing this to not only find out if my chances of being enlisted are reasonable, but to also take the responses and turn them into confidence. This is my situation. I am 16, and I am interested in the USMC. I am willing to die, even be tortured, to protect my country. I have a few questionable things that might make it hard to enlist, though. I am willing to do whatever it takes to get by these. First of all, I have Tourettes syndrome. My case is fortunately vanishing quickly, as is the case with other people with TS- it should be gone from my brain without medication by age 17. Currently I take meds for it, but I am planning to cease medication by mid summer. Most likely it will have stopped affecting me, and become 100% controllable without meds. I am unsure if I will be able to explain this to the USMC, and unsure if it could possibly be waivered. Second of all, I have extreemly poor eyesight, which would not bother me at bootcamp, but could threaten my life in actual combat. It is so poor that I cannot see much of anything 1 or less feet infront of me without glasses- how would I qualify for eye surgery WITHOUT having to enter a special forces-related job in the USMC? 3rd of all, I am very skinny, not anorexic, but have been pretty skinny and not so strong most of my life- it takes alot of work for my body to get muscle. If it looks like all the other problems I have can be dealt with, I am sure as heck ready to sacrifice most of my time out of school to prepare my body. I just want to know if these problems will still let me enlist in the corps. I am determined, I am mentally strong, I am dedicated, and I will most definately understand that I am NOT the one to speak unless told to while I am in the presence of DI's and higher officials. If there are some mottos that I truly (SP?) believe in, they would be "Death before Dishonor", "The only Easy Day was Yesterday", and "Freedom isnt Free". If I can get some motivation from any Marines, I would be greatful. It would help me very much. Thank you, and God Bless.:)