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I need PRK surgery too. My recruiter told me that Lasik was out because of the high failure rate, plus the flap that they cut can become undone at high pressures. My worry is wether or not to get PRK done before I go to OCS. Some branches (like the airforce) will disqualfy you if you had the...

I know for some branches, like the airforce, if you have PRK before enlisting it disqualifies you from all programs. Does anyone know if this is how it works in the marines?

what kind of eye exercises are there?

thanks, I'll check it out

Thanks guys, I'm feeling a bit better than I was before. My mistakes, my consequences, but damn if I'm not going to do everthing right to make this happen.

Simply put, I screwed around in my early years of college. Thankfully I woke up, but I've already done some serious damage to my GPA, seeing that I'm a senior now and graduating in December. I really want to be a marine pilot however. Once I realized this was possible (THANK YOU PRK!!) I woke...

My recruiter has told me that the marines are now accepting pilot applicant who have had the PRK vision correction. He said there are pre-operational parameters I would have to meet, however he's not sure of the numbers..can anybody help me? Thanks.

So they see if you're physically qualified after OCS? Fitness wise that wouldn't be a problem for me, but I've got a slight color vision prob. I'll fail a standard color test but would pass a light gun test or the FALANT test. Are those offered by the Marines?