Sick Lame or Lazy? Air Force Recruiting- There’s a Waiver For That
Aim High…With Waivers
Air Force expands waivers for recruits with asthma, food allergies
By Riley Ceder
The Air Force has expanded medical waivers to cover asthma, food allergies and hearing loss in an effort to boost recruitment, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.
The Air Force Recruiting Service’s Accessions Medical Waiver Division decided to expand tolerances after the Air Force whiffed on recruiting goals last year for the first time since 1999, division head Col. Ian Gregory told the magazine.
Asthma, food allergies and hearing loss have the highest number of waiver requests for the service.
The waiver tolerances went into effect Nov. 1 following Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Alex Wagner’s approval of the additions, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported.
Between 600 and 1,000 more recruits per year are expected to join as a result of the waiver expansion, according to the magazine.
Coming to a MEPS near you- Navy Cat III ASVAB retards with Air Force health waivers. The NCO in me weeps.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Air Force, The Stupid is Strong
The Air Force needs a new Stargate SG1 show. Where is Richard Dean Anderson when you need him?
I’m 62, 60% VA disability, diabetic, asthma, deteriorated discs, 2 kinds of cancer, and a permanent limp. By today’s standards, I could probably qualify for enlistment.
Good news: Elon and Vivek will make sure that disability gets taken away, so you won’t have to worry about that much longer.
Hack Stone is all in with doing away with disabilities. Not so much as to doing away with disability pay.
Yup. If they can manage to take away the disability, I’d be happy.
Nope, just the money. Not sure why I am getting downvotes, this is one of the stated goals of Project 2025.
Why does everyone who opposes Donald Trump try to associate him with Project 2025? Donald Trump nor his campaign drafted Project 2025, it was assembled by an independent think tank with policies that they would like to see implemented. Donald Trump never endorsed Project 2025, but that being said, there are probably some items in there that he may like to see enacted. Think tanks put out policy papers all of the time, focused on what they want to happen. Most of them get filed in the trash can by the politicians they send them to, other politicians may take a few recommendations to act on, but no politician is going to publicly wholeheartedly endorse one of these policy papers from an outside organization. Full disclosure, Hack Stone never read Project 2025, and he is more than confident to say that everyone screeching about Project 2025 have never read the entire document, and an overwhelming number of those have never read it all. So, have you read Project 2025 from cover to cover?
The Air Force and Marines are the only two branches that hit or exceed their recruiting numbers without effort every year, so I have no idea why they would be doing this. If this is the result of missing just one years’ numbers I worry for the future.
Marines meeting recruiting goals with no effort? Shit, back when Hack was recruiting in the Midwest, he was lucky to get one day off a month, and that one day all of the stores were closed because of the Blue Laws.
Good news! Vivek and Elon will do away with the Air Force/Space Force and Marines since they are not specifically named in the Constitution. That will free up those stellar candidates and additional tax dollars for the Army and Navy. /s
The Space Force is absolutely worthless, considering they simply renamed Space Command, and the Navy has more planes than the Air Force, so I agree.
The Marines are part of the Navy, just look at their seal.😁
Hearing waivers? Oh, THAT will go over well.
Whatcha say? Speak up, I can’ hear you. Incoming mail? You mean my girl finally wrote me a letter? Take cover? You’re not getting my headgear. Oh, and btw…pass me my inhaler.
Don’t know why the Chair Force is hurting for recruits. I thought that the ranks were going to be filled with the LGBTQLSMFT Crowd?
Lots of medical discharges with expensive disabilities coming up. Oh no, I have a toast allergy.