Pentagon drops 51 disqualifying conditions as part of recruiting push
Potential recruits with a history of childhood asthma or ADHD will now have an easier route toward enlisting.
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How will this effect PEB unfit findings
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Wow
IMHO, relaxing enlistment or accession medical standards should not have a substantial or material impact on service disability retention, separation or retirement decisions. Enlistment or accession standards have always been separate from medical retention standards, with the latter being the dispositive factor for possible referral to an MEB or PEB if the condition both fails medical retention standards and prevents or interferes with duty performance (as reflected in a profile or other formal restriction). The mere existence or presence of a medical condition, even if it is among those relaxed for accession or fails retention standards, does not automatically trigger a P3 type profile or a DES referral. The condition must interfere with the SM's performance of military duties and it is that determination that gets the SM to an MEB and is the basis upon which a PEB determines unfitness. On the other hand, the relaxation of medical enlistment or accession standards will broaden the scope of likely EPTS conditions lurking out there for SM's who find their way into a medical separation situation. Finding a condition is EPTS is something on wich all the services are fixated as a justification and means to send SM's into the non-duty related medical separation path rather than the IDES, particularly where the SM is in the Reserve, especially the National Guard.