Disqualification?

[Silva]

Greetings everyone,
I've been searching for the answer to this for awhile and have asked many people, but everyone I ask cannot give me a straight answer. I have minimal Obstructive Lung Disease. It is not asthma, and I do not take anything for it. I will have it for the rest of my life, though their are things to help improve it, but I can never fully get rid of it. Basically all it does is cause slight tight chested feelings after a bit and I can not take in as much air as most people. Before I pursue this any farther I'd like to now if this disqualifies me.

- Melissa.

[Lisa 23]

Military Medical Standards for Enlistment & Commission
Lungs, chest wall, pleura, and mediastinum
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joini...ry/a/lungs.htm

And how about filling out all of your profile so the Marines here know who they are talking to, and read the rules in the poolee and Ask A Marine forums also.

[Silva]

I've looked at that before, thank you though.
And I've filled some of it out.

[Phantom Blooper]

Your barking up the wrong tree.....your devotion and dedication is GREAT!

But lung problems unless you pass the pulmonary test is DQ.

And if you do pass with a pre existing condition it is doubtful you will be waivered....because....you would be a risk and a liability.

Good luck.

[Silva]

Alright, thank you very much. I'll do everything in my power to have it waivered if I have too.

[Sgt Leprechaun]

I would seriously doubt that they'll give a waiver for this one. Look at it this way, the minimum PFT in the Marine Corps is a 3 mile run. Can you run 3 miles in, say, 22 minutes? (Yes, the standard actually says 28 or whatever but that's a 'barely passing' PT score which trust me you don't want).

Next question, can you go into a Gas chamber, filled with CS gas, take off your gas mask, and sing the Marine Corps Hymn?

Final question, can you hump a 60 pound pack up and down a mountain for 10-12 miles?

[HereandThere]

Greetings everyone,
I've been searching for the answer to this for awhile and have asked many people, but everyone I ask cannot give me a straight answer. I have minimal Obstructive Lung Disease. It is not asthma, and I do not take anything for it. I will have it for the rest of my life, though their are things to help improve it, but I can never fully get rid of it. Basically all it does is cause slight tight chested feelings after a bit and I can not take in as much air as most people. Before I pursue this any farther I'd like to now if this disqualifies me.

- Melissa.

From my experience I'd stay away from a situation where your confinded in small places with alot of people,the kind of situation you can't avoid in the military.
When I was at the Infantry training regiment in Camp Geiger me and about half my company came down with something called acute respiratory disease.This is a viral infection that spreads from person to person and in my case and many others in my company required hospitalization
I was in the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital for over a month and sick as a dog and I'm service connected because of it to this day.
I was in perfect health and didn't have any preexisting conditions when I enlisted,but after this illness I was hospitalized 2 more times for respiratory problems.
I'm going to direct you to a site that explains this problem in the military
http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/eid/vol5no3/gray.htm

[doc h fmf]

YOU WOULD LIKELY BE DISQUALIFIED. BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIABILITY RISK BIG TIME> BECAUSE OF THE PHYSICAL FITNESS STANDARDS.,your at risk for respitory arrest if you over due your self