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Originally Posted by JimP
not like it's important in a maritime environment. Oh....wait....
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I am not sure if it is still the case, but at one time every new arrival at the USNA had a final colorvision exam before being matriculated. There was an athletic ticket, football IIRC, cadet who was colorblind, but was wavered in. The waiver was pretty specific, and the cadet had agreed to not seek any position aboard ship that required colorvision. That excluded him from any an all command positions. Upon graduation, the newly minted ensign brought suit against the Navy for descrimination. From that day onward, no waivers were granted for color vision failures. I learned this as I was working with a USNA hopeful. He was my daughter's boyfriend all through highschool. The lad had trouble with red/ green, and was able to get it right about 50% of the time, he was guessing. As a result he became USMA '92, and is a USMC JAG officer today.