Hey guys,
So i recently failed my RN entrance medical. I know, i know, many are non negotiable due to new entrant requirements of not having suffered from various ailments.
Ok but hear me out. Its an interesting one.
Ok so firstly i am 36, and have already served in the army for 13 years previous, leaving in 2012 as a sergeant. Now my army medical records state i had "back pain" in 2009 and for that the civvy doc failed me without exam on "chronic back pain for longer than 12 weeks", which apparently is one of the ailments i was referring to above.
Justification: Life in the military can be arduous and they cannot allow people in who may be susceptible to further injury in the arduous operational conditions we may find ourselves in.
However what the doc doesnt know, is that i sustained that injury on predeployment training for Op Herrick 13. A tour i proceeded to deploy on, and spend 7 months carryin 100+ lbs of gear, often on long patrols. I usually carried not one but two radios in my daysack because i was troop sergeant as well as a JTAC. I had no issues.
The back injury was just a muscular issue that was easily dealt with by physio and some rest. It has never reared its ugly head since.
Otherwise, surely i would not have been fit to deploy on a frontline operational tour? Nor would i later have passed a civvy medical to start work as a hostile environment CP operator?
Basically the point of me vomiting all this info here is to find out what some of the more knowledgable people here think my chances are of winning an appeal based on what i have stated above? Also what i need to provide in terms of information to back an appeal?
Any info or guidance would be mich appreciated as i am proper gutted and cant bear to think that its all gone wrong for me.
So i recently failed my RN entrance medical. I know, i know, many are non negotiable due to new entrant requirements of not having suffered from various ailments.
Ok but hear me out. Its an interesting one.
Ok so firstly i am 36, and have already served in the army for 13 years previous, leaving in 2012 as a sergeant. Now my army medical records state i had "back pain" in 2009 and for that the civvy doc failed me without exam on "chronic back pain for longer than 12 weeks", which apparently is one of the ailments i was referring to above.
Justification: Life in the military can be arduous and they cannot allow people in who may be susceptible to further injury in the arduous operational conditions we may find ourselves in.
However what the doc doesnt know, is that i sustained that injury on predeployment training for Op Herrick 13. A tour i proceeded to deploy on, and spend 7 months carryin 100+ lbs of gear, often on long patrols. I usually carried not one but two radios in my daysack because i was troop sergeant as well as a JTAC. I had no issues.
The back injury was just a muscular issue that was easily dealt with by physio and some rest. It has never reared its ugly head since.
Otherwise, surely i would not have been fit to deploy on a frontline operational tour? Nor would i later have passed a civvy medical to start work as a hostile environment CP operator?
Basically the point of me vomiting all this info here is to find out what some of the more knowledgable people here think my chances are of winning an appeal based on what i have stated above? Also what i need to provide in terms of information to back an appeal?
Any info or guidance would be mich appreciated as i am proper gutted and cant bear to think that its all gone wrong for me.
