Between MEPS and OCS physical

[Future SWO?]

Can anyone tell me what happens if you somehow become physically disqualified between MEPS and your standard OCS physical, due to injury or illness? I'm not talking about a SNA physical, but the regular one. I'm worried about showing up to OCS and all of the sudden being NPQ'd. Not that I think anything is wrong with me, but I did not think that the MEPS physical was too stringent. Any thoughts on this?

 

[Morgan81]

This happened to a friend of mine who was going SPECWAR or EOD or whatever, and I believe he just had to redo MEPS. You're right about MEPS not being that tough, though, more than a few people have been NPQ'd at OCS.

 

[FUPaladin]

If you don't think anything is wrong with you, you'll probably be okay. The most common reason for an NPQ (at least from what I saw) is a back or knee injury, and in most cases they had re-aggravated a previous injury. Something could still happen that's beyond your control, but since there's nothing you can do about that you might as well not worry about it.

 

[BACONATOR]

You'd be hard-pressed to NPQ yourself between MEPS and OCS, ESPECIALLY as a SWO-to-be. As long as you show up with 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 arms and 2 legs, you should be fine. Should you get injured, just make sure to let your CoC in on it and you may perhaps re-do MEPS as necessary, unless it is obviously not disqualifying or serious.