<p>Can you join the military if you wear glasses or do you need contacts?</p>
<p>Yes, you can join with glasses. In fact, during Beast you won't be permitted to wear contacts.</p>
<p>You will require a waiver for your eyesight, though. Read more about DODMERB and waivers on the USMA site and on other threads in this forum.</p>
<p>Vision waivers are typically not required for USMA as long as vision can be corrected to 20/20 with glasses or contacts.</p>
<p>She is most likely referring to USNA and USAFA which have stricter requirements. Even if you get the waiver, Navy, for example, will limit the class to 30% with a vision waiver.</p>
<p>Also, I33, I noticed you are posting at the rate of 8.5 per day...slow down or you'll never make it through your senior year.</p>
<p>I assumed the discussion was about USMA as this is a West Point forum and the response that I referenced mentioned Beast and checking out the USMA website.</p>
<p>The 30% limit mentioned above is an upper limit for Navy. I have heard that in recent years the percentage of waivers granted were much less than that. The percentages (in round numbers) that I heard were 14% for the Class of '06 and 8% for the Class of '07. The decline was due to the competitiveness of the prospective candidates.</p>
<p>GEB's right - I should have made the distinction. Some applicants to WP that wear glasses will require waivers depending on their eyesight (even if they're correctable to 20/20). Not all will. The best source of info I've found is:</p>
<p>Standards are much tighter at USNA/USAF.</p>
<p>I'm attending USMAPS this year and I also had to get a waiver for my eye sight, which wasn't too hard to get. From what I can tell, USMA and USMAPS just wants cadets to get the glasses so everyone is uniform during Beast and so you don't damage your glasses during training.</p>