SailingSkyHawk
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Not one but two successive military vets have told me that the military will pay for a PRK operation, does anybody know about this? It makes a difference for how soon I get in.
1. You should search, almost all these topics have been covered.
2. Is your Bachelors Degree complete?
3. You have a better chance of paying for your eyes on credit, than joining the Navy, waiting to get your eyes fixed, and then being accepted into a pilot slot.
This was my answer to one of your posts already, if you really want to be a pilot, you have to have your eyes fixed prior to submitting the application, or at least before you get your physical, otherwise you will not be qualified.
Actually, if you plan to fix your eyes first, you will need to have them fixed at least 90 days prior to your initial flight physical, because right after the surgery you are med-down 90 days non-waiverable--that includes eye physicals.
By initial physical, are you referring to the NAMI one before API, or one you got as a MIDN in order to get qualified for SNA/SNFO? I'm a 1/c MIDN going 1370 with a flight physical over a year ago, so based on this could I possibly get eye surgery (either on my dime or the Navy's) >90 days before I go to Pcola and get my NAMI physical? I've been trying to find an instruction about this online but have found nothing so far.
...and there will be hundreds more candidates right behind you to replace you. The money the Navy has sunk into you through your commissioning program is peanuts compared to what they will sink into you through flight school.Having said all that, I would go with the Navy PRK anyway. Its cheaper obviously, and it means more to them to do well, because if they screw up, they lose you as an asset.