blind_marine
Midshipman

HI Marines and any other people serving in the Military.
Please help me out with this question/queary, I have an eye condition called Amblyopia also known as lazy eye, but don't think I am one of those guys who's eye is drifting off in differant directions during a conversation, to look at i'm quite normal.
So I have been going to see my specialist about my eyes and I wear hard contact lenses, I have been working on my fitness to get in the Marines for over a year and now I think they are going to rule me out because I don't have 20/20 vision.
Apparently you have to have vison of 6/60 uncorrected (without glasses/contacs) so I passed that part ok.
But corrected vision must be 20/20 or also known as 6/6. My eye sight in right eye is not 6/6 and it quite far off but i'm no where near blind.
So guys does this mean I have no chance of getting in? Are they just going to tell me "sorry you can't see those tiny letters on the board your not allowed in?"
6/6 eyesight is like being able to see 3 rows from the bottom of an eye chart!
Please please someone help or advise me, i'm absloutley gutted aboutt his and can't belive it's happening, i've had my heart set on this for a long long time, please don't tell me to memorise the chart as i'm going to get caught out somewhere along the line if I do this!
Thnaks for any help
Ricky
Please help me out with this question/queary, I have an eye condition called Amblyopia also known as lazy eye, but don't think I am one of those guys who's eye is drifting off in differant directions during a conversation, to look at i'm quite normal.
So I have been going to see my specialist about my eyes and I wear hard contact lenses, I have been working on my fitness to get in the Marines for over a year and now I think they are going to rule me out because I don't have 20/20 vision.
Apparently you have to have vison of 6/60 uncorrected (without glasses/contacs) so I passed that part ok.
But corrected vision must be 20/20 or also known as 6/6. My eye sight in right eye is not 6/6 and it quite far off but i'm no where near blind.
So guys does this mean I have no chance of getting in? Are they just going to tell me "sorry you can't see those tiny letters on the board your not allowed in?"
6/6 eyesight is like being able to see 3 rows from the bottom of an eye chart!
Please please someone help or advise me, i'm absloutley gutted aboutt his and can't belive it's happening, i've had my heart set on this for a long long time, please don't tell me to memorise the chart as i'm going to get caught out somewhere along the line if I do this!
Thnaks for any help
Ricky