When I was in college I planned on going into the military when I got out. But during college I was diagnosed with cancer and didn't think I could join. Well last year a friend told me to check, so I went and checked and they said yeah I could go due to the fact I'm cancer free and it's been more than 5 years since I was diagnosed. So I start hitting the the gym working out losing weight, I got all my medical records for them, I took the ASVAB and was all set to go. All I needed to due was lose a little more weight and take my physical and I was gone....
Well went today to talk to my recruiter and was told I am now disqualified from going because on new Army medical regs that prohibit somebody with Hypothyroidism which is an after effect of my radiation and chemo treatments from enlisting... All I got to do is take a stupid pill once a day that replaces the hormone the thyroid produces!! Yet I can't go....
In a country where we are told since birth you can do what you want when you want and become anything you can't serve your damn country because you have to take a small pill once a day for a problem that came about from a disease which I had no control over in getting or not getting!!
I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I've been busting my ass for 6 months to lose the weight so I can go only to be told now I can't because I have to take a pill once a day, a pill that I haven't taken in 2 years.... What a damn joke, are we in the USA or or have I been secretly moved to frigging Libya???