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Big Chief:
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. You are not even in SFAS yet, much less assigned an MOS and on a team. Luck will have little to do with it for the vast majority of candidates.
You can gut it out through pain. The mind can make the body press on long after the body thinks it is done. There are some injuries you shouldn't try it with. Pain is sometimes weakness leaving the body, but it is also nature's way of telling you that something is broken and needs to be repaired. You need to learn the difference. If you continue to drive on a tire that is losing air, will it get better if you ignore it?
Have you followed the instructions elsewhere and reviewed the reference for medical conditions?
"Organization/unit surgeons will base their determinations of a soldier’s medical qualification/disqualification on AR 40-501, Standards of Medical Fitness (1 May 1989), Interim Change No. 101 to AR 50-401 (1 October 1991), and the USAJFKSWCS Memorandum, “Requirements for Completing Physical Examinations for USAJFKSWCS Schools,” 1 March 1995.
If you have a chronic injury that could recur and render you combat ineffective, you probably do not belong on your team. To think otherwise is selfish and is a disservice to your teammates who will be counting on you.
Do the right thing, and let the consequences follow.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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