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Step back and look at what you are asking the Military to do...
Keep someone who has a debilitating condition and try and pacify / treat that condition for the next 20 years.
It doesn't make good business sense. Now; let's look at your probable options:
PEBLO will initiate MEB proceedings on you and when you go / should you go before the MEB, you can get:
1. Retain in current job no profile
2. Retain in current job with profile code
(neither of these two are likely as you cannot do what is required of an infantryman)
3. Retain in service but reclass to a different job and a profile code
4. Removed from service (here you get a check)
Although you are motivated, you have a debilitating condition that the US Army does not want to / should not have to take care of free of charge for the next 20 years.
Even if we weren't downsizing - if after 6 months of profiling you are not significantly improved; it is grounds for an MEB. And you are correct - it is not something that you have to be asked about, nor is it something that you must consent to. It is an administrative review of your medical condition(s) to determine a fitness for duty.
The earlier you are in your career - the less chance you have of being retained. It is simple math when it comes to the potential cost of your care against what you can provide to the service.
Nothing personal - just business.
Good luck.
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Primum non Nocere
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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