<p>I received this in the mail and was wondering if this means that the USNA board has reviewed this or just dodmerb? Does this mean that my candidate package is competitive enough for them to request the remedials or is this SOP (standard operating procedure)?</p>
<p>Thanks for any insight.</p>
<p>Agency: US Naval Academy </p>
<p>Current Medical Status: Remedial Requested </p>
<p>R251.21 - Please provide additional information regarding allergic reaction to shellfish
R251.22 - Please provide all records related to disfluency. </p>
<p>D257.70 - Unaided distant visual acuity worse than 20/40</p>
<p>USNA requests a medical examination report from DoDMERB for each candidate.</p>
<p>If you are found disqualified, there is no need for you to request a waiver. If you are competitive for an offer of admission to the United States Naval Academy or one of the preparatory programs, you will automatically be considered for a waiver by the USNA. The Admissions Department will contact you if there are additional requirements for the waiver process.</p>
<p>You will need to provide the requested information requested for items R251.21 and R251.22. Respond to the DoDMERB request as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Just to add to the message above, you have not been disquailified at this point. Instead, DoDMERB is asking for additional medical information so they can make a decision as to your medical status. If, after they review the requested information they deem you disqualified two things can happen: 1) you can go through a process which is like an appeal to prove you don't have whatever they think you have, or 2) you can wait and see if you receive a waiver. You don't have to do anything to request a waiver, but you do have to do something to appeal the determiniation if you think they are wrong. If you don't have a condition that DoDMERB thinks you have you are better off going through the appeal process as a waiver will simply mean that whatever the incorrect medical condition is that DoDMERB thinks you have will be a permenant part of your medical record. By the way, DODMERB does make mistakes. My son had to undergo additional medical testing to disprove DoDMERB's incorrect assessment that he had a medical condition that he did not have.</p>
<p>I would also agree with the earlier entry that you need to get whatever DoDMERB asked for as quickly as you can. Keep copies of whatever you send and send it in such a way as you have proof that DoDMERB received it, eg, Federal Express or certified mail, return receipt requested. The posts last year were full of candidates' complaints that they had to send the same information several times to DoDMERB. Good luck.</p>
<p>My status reads :Application under DoDMERB review. I just sent a non clin remedial and its been under review for about a week. Does anyone know when they'll be done reviewing it. Its early december, so they're probly busy, but it HAS been a week...</p>
<p>qocougar the same thing happend to me. What I did is that I called them to see whats up and they said that the physician that takes care of the remedial was backed up and it takes a while for them to get through it. So I would call them. But also remember that it will not hold you back from getting an LOA. Just stay on it because my DODMERB stuff almost fell through the cracks and if I wouldn't have been checking on it I would've never found out. So just keep on it.
Good luck!</p>
<p>I must respectfully disagree with your advice that </p>
<p>"there is no need for you to request a waiver" </p>
<p>if a candidate is found medically disqualified (Sorry, I forgot how to highlight a quote) . The candidate must read the back of the DoDMERB form and follow the directions to the letter.</p>
<p>When my mid was a candidate ONLY vision waivers were automatic; candidates did not have to apply for them. All other medical waivers had to be applied for, directly to the academy (as indicated on the back of the DoDMERB notification form) or the medical person in charge of the ROTC program (also indicated on the DoDMERB form).</p>
<p>As you pointed out, a request for further information precedes a DoDMERB determination; the candidate should sent the requested information ASAP. If the candidate is refuting the DoDMERB determination due to an error, then submitting the medical information to refute the determination should also be sent ASAP. </p>
<p>But if the medical condition does exist, the candidate should consider requesting a waiver (except for visual acuity). When my mid was in the process, automatic waivers were only given for vision.
In all cases, keep copies and send return receipt certified mail.</p>
<p>Ditto for the class of 2010, visual acuity was the only automatic waiver. Candidates need to keep in mind that the Academy is limited by the Chief of Naval Operations in the number of candidates that can be accepted who require vision correction.</p>
<p>I believe that the limitation (somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-35%) is for any type of medical waiver, not just vision. It certainly does make the competition even more difficult for candidates requiring waivers.
CM</p>
<p>Item 9 on the DoDMERB report states that there is a limit on the number of waivers for visual correction.</p>
<p>"9. For the U.S. Naval Academy Program you are medically qualified to enter the Naval Academy. However, if your uncorrected visual acuity is worse than 20/40 the Naval Academy is limited by the Chief of Naval Operations in the number of candidates that can be accepted who require correction of their vision in order to meet commissioning visual requirements for specialized duties. The admissions board will automatically review your record in a supplemental selection process; you need not request this review.”</p>
<p>I am 20/40 with no glasses. Would I need a waiver? I'm working on remedials right now for other things, but it hasn't listed a disqualifying code yet.</p>
<p>It is to my understanding that you do not have to request a waiver for the USNA. This is right off the DoDMERB board. Am I misunderstanding something in the process?</p>
<p>DoDMERB states:</p>
<p>U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY (USNA) – There is no need for you to request a waiver. If you are competitive for an offer of admission to the United States Naval Academy or one of the preparatory programs, you will automatically be considered for a waiver by USNA. The Admissions Department will contact you if there are additional requirements for the waiver process. </p>
<p>Am I right to assume that you must address the waiver not request one?</p>
<p>Thank you for any input and/or clarification.</p>
<p>I stand by post #2. Candidates do not need to request waivers from the U.S. Naval Academy or Navy ROTC for that matter. Anything that was required for candidates applying for either of these programs prior to the Class of 2011 is not germane.</p>
<p>The DoDMERB instruction as posted by mdlrnc couldn't be more clear.</p>
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U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY (USNA) – There is no need for you to request a waiver.
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<p>There is nothing to do -- ZIP, ZILCH, NADA.</p>
<p>On the other hand, candidates applying to the U.S. Air Force Academy and/or Army ROTC do need to request waivers.</p>
<p>Stay on top of whomever is sending in your remedial information. My son required additional information and it never arrived (according to DODMERB). He (the boy) stayed on this ALL summer until he had to start school. That's when I had to call. </p>
<p>They found his remedial paperwork in the "IN" box of the flight surgeon who performed his physical. They stated they "didn't know where to send it." Several suggestions came to my mind, especially to parts of the body where the sun doesn't shine. The chief medical officer DID know where to send it and it arrived at DODMERB that afternoon and was gone through and evaluated within a week (hang on to any extra x-rays you have that have to do with an injury-seriously).</p>
<p>blah.. i just called dodmerb today to check up on my status, apparently they have not gotten anything in the mail about my remedial that i did 3/4 weeks back. apparently the testing place that i did my remedial test have not sent it off. -_-'</p>
<p>so i called the testing place, and they are out of the office. are most medical testing places like this? guess i'll have to call back tomorrow.</p>
<p>I dont see why DoDmerb doesn't just review candidates with a nomination, or only scholastically qualified applicants. This would lower their patient number by like over 50%.</p>
<p>STAY ON THEM. It's the only way. Sooner or later, they are going to get tired of you calling and will take care of it. If you believe that you have been quite patient with them, take it up further if you can. It was amazing that my son's stuff showed up on-line 45 minutes (I swear!) after I put in a call to the higher ups.</p>
<p>Would urge anyone sending anything in to DoDMERB send it return-receipt-requested. Tons of paperwork arrives daily.... keep copies of everything- and stay on top of it. This is where parents can definately help!</p>
<p>Does this mean that I am now in a "waiver" pool of candidates? Is there anything else that the USNA may need from me related to the medical process?</p>