Green11
Living the dream
Hello all,
This is my first post, so should I break any forum rules, by all means let me know. First here is some background, I graduated college in May 2011 (War Eagle) and completed PLC (A) in 2010. I am also an air contract. In between OCS and commissioning, I tore my labrum (posterior) without dislocation requiring surgery and a waiver. I've seen a lot of posts concerning how to actually go about this and what happens at BUMED, so I figured I'd help some people out.
First off, it takes about a month to get a time scheduled to go to BUMED at MCRD Parris Island to get the appointment. You will go to the branch medical clinic where a Navy doctor will evaluate you. He will ask you how you hurt your shoulder, what stage you are at in the program, how many pullups, pushups, and crunches you can do, as well as your 3 mile run time. Also, he mentioned that if you have anchors as I did, Arthrex anchors are looked at more favorably than alternatives. After his interview with you, he will take you into an exam room and have you demonstrate your range of motion and test your strength in different positions. After this, you will go across the street outside to do a short workout consisting of 3 max sets of pullups and 3 sets of 40 pushups (diamond, wide, narrow). Then you will go back inside and bounce a medicine ball off a trampoline 20 times and he will test your strength again to make sure you weren't compensating somehow the first time. When you are done with that last strength test, he will take you back into his office where he will either recommend you for the waiver or deny you the recommendation. If he does recommend you, then you will hear back as to whether or not you got the waiver between 60-120 days (yes, I know this is a huge window).
Make sure you take all your medical documents that you submitted prior to going to MCRD PI. If you have any other questions, you can always PM me. I hope this helps clear some things up for some of you and good luck.
Semper Fi
This is my first post, so should I break any forum rules, by all means let me know. First here is some background, I graduated college in May 2011 (War Eagle) and completed PLC (A) in 2010. I am also an air contract. In between OCS and commissioning, I tore my labrum (posterior) without dislocation requiring surgery and a waiver. I've seen a lot of posts concerning how to actually go about this and what happens at BUMED, so I figured I'd help some people out.
First off, it takes about a month to get a time scheduled to go to BUMED at MCRD Parris Island to get the appointment. You will go to the branch medical clinic where a Navy doctor will evaluate you. He will ask you how you hurt your shoulder, what stage you are at in the program, how many pullups, pushups, and crunches you can do, as well as your 3 mile run time. Also, he mentioned that if you have anchors as I did, Arthrex anchors are looked at more favorably than alternatives. After his interview with you, he will take you into an exam room and have you demonstrate your range of motion and test your strength in different positions. After this, you will go across the street outside to do a short workout consisting of 3 max sets of pullups and 3 sets of 40 pushups (diamond, wide, narrow). Then you will go back inside and bounce a medicine ball off a trampoline 20 times and he will test your strength again to make sure you weren't compensating somehow the first time. When you are done with that last strength test, he will take you back into his office where he will either recommend you for the waiver or deny you the recommendation. If he does recommend you, then you will hear back as to whether or not you got the waiver between 60-120 days (yes, I know this is a huge window).
Make sure you take all your medical documents that you submitted prior to going to MCRD PI. If you have any other questions, you can always PM me. I hope this helps clear some things up for some of you and good luck.
Semper Fi
