Kevin Gowen wrote:
 > John W. wrote:
 >
 >> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
 >> news:<2ou8fgFd9vt9U36@uni-berlin.de>...
 >>
 >>> John W. wrote:
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>> You were talking about that last year before you thankfully
 >>>> stopped participating. I actually thought you joined; it would
 >>>> do you a great deal of good to have some discipline. So why
 >>>> didn't you?
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Have you seen the accommodations? There's not even pomegranate
 >>> juice on the menu.
 >>>
 >>
 >> I'd say that's not the reason you couldn't get in. You should be
 >> proud of even making the attempt, assuming you were able to get up
 >> the nerve to do so.
 >
 >
 > My second year of law school I applied to enter the USMC because it
 > is the only branch that makes the judge advocates go through the
 > exact same training as all other officers. The Army, Navy, and Air
 > Force commission their JAGs by direct appointment. My PT program was
 > going well, but the medical exam at the MEPS in December 2002 was
 > unfortunate. My height and weight were within service guidelines but
 > my medical history disqualified me on general DoD grounds, so I am
 > ineligible to serve in any branch. That was one of the sadder days in
 > my life.
 >
 > I emailed Mike about my application process as it was ongoing, so he
 > can vouch for all this, but if things would have gone according to
 > plan, I would have spent the summer of 2003 in Quantico, VA and I'd
 > be at The Basic School as I write this.
 >
I can sympathize because I also failed out of MEPS for medical reasons.
What pissed me off was that the reason was eyesight (compounded by 
childhood asthma, which the recruiter said wouldn't be a problem to get 
around). I forget exactly what the limit is, but I was over it; I wrote 
letters to congressmen and tried to get around it, but couldn't.

Just so you know, I admire you for trying. I give you shit a lot of the 
time, but you should be proud of yourself.

John W.