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[–] mk46gunner 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

My advice to you is to be your own advocate for health. No one else will, not even the docs.

Until their medical department fails their annual inspection. In which case they will advocate the shit out of you. They will advocate so much, that you will be on medical hold for over a year jumping through hoops like a fucking circus animal. All for a condition for which you had been given a negative diagnosis more than two years prior by two separate health care providers.

At which point, you will be totally fucked, still pretty much perfectly healthy, but out of your career because of some junior fuckwit's incompetence.

@theword Basically, no matter which branch in which you enlist or take a commission, keep track of your paperwork. All of it. Medals aren't shit if you can't get benefits or your career is ending prematurely, and always remember: Medical can fuck anyone's career. Always make sure you're on top of any medical concern you have, be it a health issue, or how they're handling your records.

Always make and keep copies.

Docs/SARCs (corpsman) are some of the coolest guys you'll have by your side when you're rolling outside the wire. The desk sitters fucking with your records.... can eat a bag of dicks and fuck themselves with the leftovers.

Oh. And always make and keep copies.

Yeah. I'm salty.

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[–] theword 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Great info! Thanks!