deferred on medical term's

[ciaran]

hi i have just received my medical results back from Lichfield and i have been deferred due to medical reasons but the only thing is it says it due to asthma but i have never been told i have had it by my doc. My doc has given me inhalers but i have never had to use them which should mean i do not have asthma right? So all im wondering is should i appeal against it or leave it?

[Wholley]

Your GP gave you inhalers but didn't tell you what they were for???

[ciaran]

yeah as they have never been able to say i have got it but i have never had to use them.

[MSI64]

Four years clear from your last asthma attack or from the date you were last issued an inhaler.

In the words of the meerkats, Simples

[Ryan_13531]

hope i dont have same problem i had astma as a child but discharged over 10 years ago i go glencorse in 6 weeks

[ciaran]

you should be fine mate

[WilliamPallett]

I got deferred from Pirbright on Monday just gone...

Due to wax in my ears...and some acne on my front and back...

I can't believe it...so annoyed it's so pety.

[skidloaf]

I had asthma as a child and used inhalors. Havn't ever had an attack though and have not used inhalors since i was about 5. Wasn't a big problem though, went to Glencorse. Because of the asthma though I went a day early with 2 other lads (didn't do anything until the next day mind when everybody else arrived) Had the medical same as everyone else but lads with a history of asthma had a "spirometry test" I think it was called. Just involved a lung capacity test, 20 minutes on an excersise bike followed by another lung capacity test. Think it was to test recovery time or check for wheezing or something. It was easy enough but if your lung capacity dropped by 10%(i think) you failed. Scary thing was if you failed that is permanent barr from the army, sent straight home, never to return

[skidloaf]

hi i have just received my medical results back from Lichfield and i have been deferred due to medical reasons but the only thing is it says it due to asthma but i have never been told i have had it by my doc. My doc has given me inhalers but i have never had to use them which should mean i do not have asthma right? So all im wondering is should i appeal against it or leave it?

Appeal against it mate. Can't hurt. I appealed a defferal and I go to basic in 3 months.

[J4M13]

I got deferred from Pirbright on Monday just gone...

Due to wax in my ears...and some acne on my front and back...

I can't believe it...so annoyed it's so pety.

Why would you be deferred for acne on your front and back? and how bad was the acne? Im asking as iv got abit of acne on my shoulders and back and dont want to be deferred because of that.
I have just been deferred untill Dec 2010 because i was given an inhaler in 06 as a precaution to a chest infection.

[Wholley]

Acne is a reason for deferral as heat,sand,bugs and body armor can affect your performance.As can severe cold which you may encounter.
Why medevac when the British gormlessness can just wait until they get their helo's to work?Or figure out how to send an extra five hundred'Military Personel' When recruitment is supposedly up to strength?
The US is sending another twenty thousand which makes me think that it's now become our war once again.

[bored_stupid]

The US is sending another twenty thousand which makes me think that it's now become our war once again.

It always has been your war, or at least it should have been, we did the US a favour by going into Afghanistan not the other way around.


As to the reasons for being deffered due to acne, it is because it can cause furthur skin problems once you start tabbing etc... as your kit will rub at the best of time and if you have bad acne you could end up with very painful sores which may get infected.

A lad I was on selection with got deffered because of it and that was the reason he was given.

[Wholley]

It always has been your war, or at least it should have been, we did the US a favour by going into Afghanistan not the other way around.

Not quite true,as it was a NATO decision to begin with.
Then the Germans pulled out,followed by the Danes(lack of equipment) and Spanish(Got bombed and ran away)
What bugs me is the way Gordon Brown worded the sending of more troops'Military Personel'Not front line troops so that could be construed as a bunch of REMF's which is hardly helpful.
Incidentally the British MoD has two bureaucrats for every one serving soldier who's salary's mostly double those of the previously mentioned.

[bored_stupid]

Not quite true,as it was a NATO decision to begin with.
Then the Germans pulled out,followed by the Danes(lack of equipment) and Spanish(Got bombed and ran away)

It wasn't a NATO decision to attack Afghanistan it was Americas retaliation for Sept 11th, simple as that, everyone else was told "you're either with us or against us"

They then took their eye off the ball by going for Iraq and that is how things ended up the way they are today so the US has no one but itself to blame for the fact they now have to pump more resources in to Afghanistan.

What bugs me is the way Gordon Brown worded the sending of more troops'Military Personel'Not front line troops so that could be construed as a bunch of REMF's which is hardly helpful.

Well as I understood it some of those troops are EOD so I think they would be pretty helpful out in Afghanistan even if they are, as you say, REMF's. You dont have to simply be actively hunting down the Taliban to be able to make life easier for the guys who are.

Incidentally the British MoD has two bureaucrats for every one serving soldier who's salary's mostly double those of the previously mentioned.

Well, incidentally, that's a load of rubbish. Senior Civil Servants may be on large salaries (show me anyone in a top job who isn't) but the vast majority of people working in the MOD are low paid and probably don't earn much more, if any, than soldiers.

The myth that civil servants get paid huge wages is laughable most salaries in the civil service are less than £20,000 a year so hardly double what a soldier earns.

I'm not trying to say things are perfect, but it just bugs me when people use myths and half truths to back up their opinions.

[Tab]

There are 83.000 civil servants in the MoD and we have of 180.00 people in all three armed forces and many of these are not combat related. During WW2 there were 33.000 civil servants running the armed forces which ran into millions of men and women and who were in action in every part of the Globe. Now with out the aid of computers, fax machines or blackberries they were all kept fed, paid and armed. So when there are cut backs why is it that the Forces get cut and not the Civil Servants. On Pay well even the most junior civil servant gets paid more than a Private Soldier and on top that every one gets a bonus for a job well done, and regardless what happens they always get their bonuses.