kingneptune117
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Hi all,
I am currently a senior in mechanical engineering at my university. Freshman year I was in AFROTC, which I enjoyed. When it came time to take the DodMERB, my Det Commander as well as some of the other cadre pulled me aside and told me that I have to lie about taking ADD and anxiety meds in the past. I had gotten off these meds during my senior year in high school, and I have performed extremely well in college since. They told me that if I put them down I would never get into the service. After a lot of moral debate, I took their advice and lied about it. I passed the DodMERB.
However, after my freshman year I decided to drop AFROTC. It was weighing down heavily on my school work, and I did not like how I would not know my role in the AF until I committed myself to service.
I am now considering going for Navy or AF OCS after college. However, I do not want to lie about my medication use again. My concern is that if I choose to put down the meds this time around, they will look at my past DodMERB and see that different information is on both. On the one I would take in the future I would be saying I was on meds, and on the first DodMERB I said I wasn't. I read on the form that if you lie on these you can be subjected to a $10,000 fine and never be allowed to serve. Will they actually look back at my past DodMERB? Another concern I have is that they will not even send me for another DodMERB and just use my past one, which has the false info on it.
I am confident that I can obtain a waiver for this past medication use. I have demonstrated academic excellence since getting off of them, and I have performed well in several engineering internships.
Basically my question is, if I tell the truth on the next military medical I take, will they somehow find out I lied on a past one and penalize me for that?
Obviously I should not have done this, but I was under a lot of pressure from the cadre to falsify this information. They said that these meds were clearly a non factor for me, and that almost all the cadets do not put everything down since they would get denied. What is the best course of action here? Thank you very much for your time.
I am currently a senior in mechanical engineering at my university. Freshman year I was in AFROTC, which I enjoyed. When it came time to take the DodMERB, my Det Commander as well as some of the other cadre pulled me aside and told me that I have to lie about taking ADD and anxiety meds in the past. I had gotten off these meds during my senior year in high school, and I have performed extremely well in college since. They told me that if I put them down I would never get into the service. After a lot of moral debate, I took their advice and lied about it. I passed the DodMERB.
However, after my freshman year I decided to drop AFROTC. It was weighing down heavily on my school work, and I did not like how I would not know my role in the AF until I committed myself to service.
I am now considering going for Navy or AF OCS after college. However, I do not want to lie about my medication use again. My concern is that if I choose to put down the meds this time around, they will look at my past DodMERB and see that different information is on both. On the one I would take in the future I would be saying I was on meds, and on the first DodMERB I said I wasn't. I read on the form that if you lie on these you can be subjected to a $10,000 fine and never be allowed to serve. Will they actually look back at my past DodMERB? Another concern I have is that they will not even send me for another DodMERB and just use my past one, which has the false info on it.
I am confident that I can obtain a waiver for this past medication use. I have demonstrated academic excellence since getting off of them, and I have performed well in several engineering internships.
Basically my question is, if I tell the truth on the next military medical I take, will they somehow find out I lied on a past one and penalize me for that?
Obviously I should not have done this, but I was under a lot of pressure from the cadre to falsify this information. They said that these meds were clearly a non factor for me, and that almost all the cadets do not put everything down since they would get denied. What is the best course of action here? Thank you very much for your time.
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