Miltary waivers. I heard you cant get a waiver if you failed the Meps hearing test. I heard you can.?

Question

I heard you cant get a waiver if you failed the hearing test in MEPS. But i heard you can if the MEPS doctor approves you for the waiver. If heard this from Numerous people, and even seen documents where it happened. IF so, is there any branch that is more likely to approve it. I just really would like to enter the miltary.

thats what i thought too desert viking, but the recruitor i was with says it varies about waives, sometimes they do, sometimes they dont, it depends on the MEPS doctors, so thats why im confused. Like the other girl said, same thing with depth perception, serious thing, but she did. *sigh, im soo confused, i just want to get in. any other details? any hearing people gotten waivers?

thanks mandi, i should do that, Im thinking cause of the war, i have a much higher chance for a waiver, if i go marines or army, but then people say, Ill never get a waiver in the marines, and that coast guard is easier, whats true?

Answer 1

My husband has to get a waiver for his hearing. He failed it twice at meps. His recruiter told him that he should not worry he would do all he could to get his waiver and get him in. So I guess maybe it depends more on how far your recruiter is willing to go to help you out. He leaves in a week. Or so he is sopposed to. Im not sure how long these waivers take but im hoping not long.

Answer 2

It really just depends on the type of job you're looking into. I know that I wasn't eligible AT ALL for any type of pilot training, because I failed the depth perception test. I enlisted in the Navy, and they give out waivers pretty often for things. My best advice is to go talk to a recruiter. If you fit the other qualifications, they'll try their hardest to make it happen for you. Good luck!

Answer 3

Here's the hearing standards. Anything worse than this is disqualifying and there are no waivers:
35 decibel hearing loss in either ear at at 500, 1000 and 2000 cycles per second. 45 decibel loss at 3000 cycles per second or 55 decibels hearing loss at 4000 cycles per second. These are pure tone losses measured with an audiometer.

Answer 4

CG is the toughest to get into , followed by AF, Navy, Marines and Army in that order. waiver approvals are based on a whim, I swear. Just because the MEPS doc recommends one does NOT mean the Board will approve it.

it depends on how bad the hearing loss is. there are minimum standards and if you don't meet them, you aren't getting in no matter what.

Answer 5

2–7. Hearing
a. Audiometers, calibrated to standards of the International Standards Organization (ISO 8253:1 1989) (reference
(c)) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI 1996), will be used to test the hearing of all applicants.
b. All audiometric tracings or audiometric readings recorded on reports of medical examination or other medical
records will be clearly identified.
c. Current hearing threshold level in either ear greater than that described below is disqualifying:
(1) Pure tone at 500, 1000, and 2000 cycles per second for each ear of not more than 30 decibels (dB) on the
average, with no individual level greater than 35 dB at those frequencies.
(2) Pure tone level not more than 45 dB at 3000 cycles per second or 55 dB at 4000 cycles per second for each ear.
(3) There is no standard for 6000 cycles per second.
d. Current or history of hearing aid use (V53.2) is disqualifying


Those are the qualifying and disqualifying regulations for hearing.

Answer 6

"what style of guy or woman fails the listening to test at meps?" The deaf style. i for my section had rather of hardship with the listening to ingredient.. They performed the sounds in speedy succession and maximum of it replaced into particularly low and complicated to take heed to.. i think I omitted around one million/3 of the completed kind of beeps.