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February 7, 2010does the army disqualify you if you have prk eye surgery not laser prk before you enlist? i would really like to know because i am 18 and planning to have prk surgery because it is way better then laser but i want to know if the armed forces disqualify you for enlistment if you have surgery?
Same Ques. was asked the other day and the general consensus was yes they disqualify. Join the AF they pay for it.
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Same Ques. was asked the other day and the general consensus was yes they disqualify. Join the AF they pay for it.
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No Lasik and PRK are not disqualifying.
But they do make you get a waiver,
And you generally have to wait at least one year after getting the eye surgery to enlist.
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No. They only disqualify you if your pre-surgical refractive error was more than plus or minus eight diopters, six months has not yet gone by since you had the surgery, you have not had two post-surgical vision exams since the surgery (3 months apart) and your post-surgical refractive error is greater than plus or minus 0.25 spherical and/or plus or minus 0.50 cylindrical, or there have been complications, including the use of opthalmic solutions after the surgery.
The source below is the medical standard.
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AR 40-501: Standards of Medical Fitness, para. 2-12 (c)