I'd appreciate advice and helpful info from anybody better informed and connected than I am right now. I got NPQd due to a high blood pressure reading a day prior to graduating OCS. They told me they needed to do a 3 day test to do a final determination, but given that it didn't come up until the day before I graduated, there wasn't time to do that.
I got my SWO qual during this deployment, and am planning to put in for a lat xfer into Pilot or NFO.
Already contacted Millington, and was told that I'm a strong candidate for a transfer assuming I pass a flight phys in time.
I'm confident I'll pass everything this time around...I've gone 2 years now without any high bp readings, and I get the suspicion the high ones came from using a small cuff.
The problem is timing...specifically getting the flight phys done before the board convenes.
I get back from deployment in late October, RTHP in Norfolk.
I'm trying to see if I can conduct a walk in physical in either Souda Bay or Rota.
Other options are waiting to get back to get it done at Sewell's Point, Oceana, or even take leave to go down to Pensacola if necessary. Any place where I can either set it up in advance without a huge lead time or a walk in capability is basically waht I need.
Second question is if a waiver is required if I was NPQ previously for blood pressure, but a recently conducted flight physical shows no problems. In which case obviously, I'd need to factor that into when I get the flight phys done.
Any informed advice would be greatly appreciated. Biggest obstacle to this that I've got is shitty connectivity while deployed. The other being that our IDC doesn't have too much experience with something like this, which is why I'm doing most of the legwork myself.
I got my SWO qual during this deployment, and am planning to put in for a lat xfer into Pilot or NFO.
Already contacted Millington, and was told that I'm a strong candidate for a transfer assuming I pass a flight phys in time.
I'm confident I'll pass everything this time around...I've gone 2 years now without any high bp readings, and I get the suspicion the high ones came from using a small cuff.
The problem is timing...specifically getting the flight phys done before the board convenes.
I get back from deployment in late October, RTHP in Norfolk.
I'm trying to see if I can conduct a walk in physical in either Souda Bay or Rota.
Other options are waiting to get back to get it done at Sewell's Point, Oceana, or even take leave to go down to Pensacola if necessary. Any place where I can either set it up in advance without a huge lead time or a walk in capability is basically waht I need.
Second question is if a waiver is required if I was NPQ previously for blood pressure, but a recently conducted flight physical shows no problems. In which case obviously, I'd need to factor that into when I get the flight phys done.
Any informed advice would be greatly appreciated. Biggest obstacle to this that I've got is shitty connectivity while deployed. The other being that our IDC doesn't have too much experience with something like this, which is why I'm doing most of the legwork myself.
