Hi first of all I would like to thank all our braves troops for keeping us safe!! My girlfriend joined the Florida National Guard and just finished and graduated basic training from Fort Jackson. She suffer from Asthma when she was a kid till her late pree teens. On her teens she never had a problem again and was able to join the National Guard, during basic training the Asthma flared up again, she had several asthma attacks and limited her participation in few drills. Luckily she was able to graduate it and pull thru it, she is very athletic, very comitted and strong minded person and back home she works as a personal trainer. She was given several aerosols and asthma medication sprays etc, and was told she might have severe case of chronic asthma. When she finished her second face of her training she is coming back home and get a second opinion on the matter with a civilian doctor specialist. I mean I slept with her and while she sleeps she has a cough like a smokers cough and snores a lot like sleep apnea type. She wakes up a night sometimes she can't sleep because she can't breath, I'm scared as well as her for her condition that might endager her training in the military. If the case that she does have severe Asthma what are the steps she should take to get a medical discharge?? What officials she should speak to and what forms she should apply to get the medical discharge?. I will really appreciate if you can give me an input and answer of some of my questions thank you.

BigRob- you might want to read the post down in joining the service they have the same problem and might help.

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Originally posted by SULLY1:
BigRob- you might want to read the post down in joining the service they have the same problem and might help.

Thanx! dont know how to navigate the forum yet, but I will read it

You should be very concerned for her safety, the military is hurting for people and med boarding them is a last resort, she should have never went back for her second phase of training. They should have immediatly started doing dischrage paper work at the CTMC when the problem flared up. They will do everything they can to keep her in and will not discharge her until her condition is so exasperated it may cause long term complications she never had before.

The military does not care about people, they only care about the mission.

The funny thing is they will med board AFROTC cadets on scholarship or potential pilots on the drop of a hat, but they are running low on cannon fauder. Others on this forum will make a bunch of inflamitory remarks with no real substance but this is the bottem line.

Here we go again

bigrob23

your girlfriend needs to go see a doc or at least a specialist. asthma is serious and needs to be properly treated. At the minimum, she should qualify for limited duty until they can hold a medical board on her.

And contrary to rppearso's contention that the military does not care about its people, that is flat out wrong of him to say. The military needs fit and capable people to fullfill its missions. If she is not fit and capable, then she needs to be processed out with possible disability.