The Eyes have it - All things Vision-related

[szalona]

What do you think made the difference? Like did you feel more rested with the civilian eye exams?

The setup was definitely different. My RPS eye exam consisted of dingy plastic goggles instead of the exams that I was given at an actual optometry clinic. RPS did a single Snellen Test, and the optometry clinics had the little projectors with several slides. Dunno if the type of acuity exam matters that much though.

I think the rest definitely plays a factor in the reading. I took an exam at my LASIK consultation with 5ish hours of sleep and knocked a 20/60 (lol) in my problem eye. I don't expect to be well-rested during OCS, but I'm getting a re-read if I decide to continue with surgery.

 

[Nohopenaldo]

What do you think made the difference? Like did you feel more rested with the civilian eye exams?

for what its worth, same thing happened to me. pls look at my post history for reference.

im 20/25, they put me at 20/60 at meps. idk what it is but the machine sucks and I feel like they are just trying the get a close enough number instead of an accurate number. This is just my opinion ofc. When i told the gentleman that I cannot "see" the bottom letters as they are cut out he zoomed in instead of moving the card up, making the correction higher. it is what it is, you can get a civilian consult and re submit.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Thanks for the advice. I definitely plan on telling my recruiter haha. My only concern is that he’s adamantly against me getting any corrective surgery and at this point I’m confident I’ll fail the vision exams at OCS/NAMI. He told me that he failed the eye exams several times and just requested a recheck with an optometrist and I don’t think I’ll be granted that liberty at OCS…?

I will add that the number of people I saw at my recruiting district who failed and MEPS, then received a passing test from a civilian facility who then went to OCS only to fail and get redesignated was high enough that I could not in good conscience recommend that course of action.