18x medical stuff

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I have been searching for some info on this, but I havent been able to find a thread that has a conclusive answer.

I have been interested in the 18x program, as well as OCS. In order to go to MEPS for a physical preceeding the OCS packet, I needed to get letters from doctors regarding a shoulder injury and bee allergies, both which are now healed/desensitized. However, my recruiter told me that simply needing to send the materials to MEPS for a waiver on these two issues disqualified me from Airborne, and thus 18X.

Naturally the next step was to tell me all about how I could do 11B and 19D etc.. and get where I was interested in getting.

Is having any medical issue really an automatic disqualification for airborne? Or are they just trying to sell me the 11b with the promise of Airborne and SFAS recruiters galore at OSUT? (My experience reading the forums made it sound like this wasn't the case) It just seems odd in that there must be a small percentage of people who havent injured themselves at one point, and that the type/severity of my med issues seems completely irrelevant, only that they exist.

Thanks