<p>Okay, this is a major problem for me. I have just gotten a nomination from my congressman to the Air Force and have been given my Liason Officer’s contact information. The problem is that I was just injured in a soccer match and tore my ACL. I have surgery on Tuesday. THis is a problem because I hae not taken my examination yet and the rehab is about 6-8 months afterwards until full recovery. What do I do??!!</p>
<p>Any help please would be very appreciated. THANKS</p>
<p>Yikes!!! Well first i am glad you are "okay", ie not dead. </p>
<p>6-8 months for recovery, dang...thats cutting it awfully close, even if you are on this side of of 6 months. Best of luck on the surgery... thats gotta be scary..</p>
<p>Unfortunatly on the DoDMERB website says there is a DQ for :History of uncorrected/corrected (insufficient testing provided) anterior or posterior cruciate ligament injury.</p>
<p>From what ive looked at and my LONG ordeal with DoDMERB (ended today actually with waiver denied), it seems like right off the bat DoDMERB will DQ you for your injury. However, you should be able to apply for a waiver. Im sure the most important thing that will matter is ability to have full range and no hinderance as a result of your injury.</p>
<p>The scarry thing will be the recovery being so close to inprocessing and how our government LOVES to take its time.</p>
<p>Right now concentrate on your surgery, hope/prey it goes as best as possible and hope that you can still get an appointment.</p>
<p>Best of luck with that!</p>
<p>I was disqualified for ankle instability last year. I waited a full year, giving it full time to heal, then brought rebuttal forms and submitted to DoDMBERB. The issues are now clear, but I don't know if I could have successfully rebutted if I did it the same year I was disqualified. Now I'm a second year applicant to USNA. Good luck to you</p>
<p>Well, you can always ask the admissions department for a medical turnback, as in you would be part of the class of 2011 and not 2010.. </p>
<p>sometimes not too terrible... you can always go to a normal college during the year (to I guess kill the extra year while your getting better) validate alot of classes</p>
<p>getting alot of the core classes out of the way will be a life saver... you won't have to deal with the 18-21 credit semester that most cadets deal with their whole 8 semesters</p>
<p>i second that. Thats what i have been doing this year. One year at the community college has already gotten so many credits out of the way. Now it looks like ill be here then going to a state school, but either way its such a life saver. If i had gotten it into the academy it would have knocked a few courses out that i could take more fun classes etc.</p>
<p>Either way i hope it works out for what you want.</p>
<p>guhopeful,
sorry to heap more bad news on you, but the dr is right. My brother tore his ACL playing lacrosse. He was in awesome shape and still the recovery time was more towards that 8 months side. Then once the knee was "fully healed," he was out of shape and had to focus on rebuilding. So yes, you'll need that 8 months but then you'll need even more time to get back to your current strength plus even more strength so that you are ready to tackle Basic. Even if Dodmerb cleared you (which is doubtful b/c inprocessing is less than 5 months away), you wouldn't want to risk retearing. I would take tbby's advice and beg! Take your time and heal. Good luck!</p>
<p>If all goes well with the surgery and recovery, you can try again next year. Believe it or not, having to reapply and wait a year isn't the end of the world.</p>
<p>I completely second UNcynical. That's exactly what I've done and in the past months at college, I got to learn more and more about the Academy. I think if I just zoomed right ahead, I don't know if I would have been exactly prepared or gone there with right expectations. This year has been very valuable year to me so far and although I don't know what I'll do if I don't get in this year to the academies, I think I'll defintely be more physically, mentally and academically prepared for a life at the academies compared to last year.</p>