Went through MEPS yesterday and it goes without saying that it was a very long day. I woke up at 4am to report over at the MEPS facility at 5:15am. After some waiting, a bunch of kids finally show up and we stand in line to start processing. After some more waiting, we all cram into a classroom where we are briefed about what we are going to do and to file our medical history forms. Having a pretty much inexistent medical history, it was easy for me. After that, we are all immediately routed to stations such as:- Blood Draw: self-explanatory. A kid in front of me took forever because he freaking was feeling dizzy and puked after getting about 2 drops of blood taken away from his body.
- Massive wait time before next station
- Drug Testing: Pee in the cup while someone checks your jimmy, test for drugs, sugar and protein in urine
- Massive wait time before next station
- History: The physical itself, good old grab balls and cough test, and of course the traumatic spread cheeks test
- Massive wait time before next station (starting to see a pattern here?)
- Hearing: Pretty simple, click when you hear something however faint. I felt like I was clicking way too much like every second almost. But hey I heard sounds so I clicked
- Massive wait time before next station
- Vision: The usual vision test but less accurate and you are being rushed through to death
- Massive wait time before next station
- Ortho/Neuro: The fun part, strip down to your underwear for height, weight, blood pressure, and then the renowned exercises such flail your arm like a Nimrod, duck walk, stomp knees on the ground ,walk on heels, kick legs like an idiot while being closely watched by physicians.
- Profile: The last station where a physician goes over your file and either qualifies you as healthy for military service, or disqualify you with or without possibility for waiver. I actually had an issue there since my eyes (-8.50 diopters) are so bad and were slightly over the threshold for myopia (-8.00). The doc told me I would be likely to be granted a waiver without problems since I was barely above the limit and my eyes were otherwise healthy. However, that didn’t please me all too well since I was wearing my -7.50 prescription and corrected to 20/20 and I don’t want to have to wait to contract and possibly miss a chance to go for OCC-200.
After lunch and some more staring at each other, I grab my medical folder and finally check out of MEPS around 2:00PM and head directly to the OSO office where Capt. Lawson immediately tells me to get an eye exam at Walmart and fax him the results. We go over the paperwork I need to get to finish my application, take a picture for my application, fingerprints etc… I should be able to contract on Monday or at worst Tuesday after I gather all that stuff and take my PFT.
- Massive wait time before next station
- Drug Testing: Pee in the cup while someone checks your jimmy, test for drugs, sugar and protein in urine
- Massive wait time before next station
- History: The physical itself, good old grab balls and cough test, and of course the traumatic spread cheeks test
- Massive wait time before next station (starting to see a pattern here?)
- Hearing: Pretty simple, click when you hear something however faint. I felt like I was clicking way too much like every second almost. But hey I heard sounds so I clicked
- Massive wait time before next station
- Vision: The usual vision test but less accurate and you are being rushed through to death
- Massive wait time before next station
- Ortho/Neuro: The fun part, strip down to your underwear for height, weight, blood pressure, and then the renowned exercises such flail your arm like a Nimrod, duck walk, stomp knees on the ground ,walk on heels, kick legs like an idiot while being closely watched by physicians.
- Profile: The last station where a physician goes over your file and either qualifies you as healthy for military service, or disqualify you with or without possibility for waiver. I actually had an issue there since my eyes (-8.50 diopters) are so bad and were slightly over the threshold for myopia (-8.00). The doc told me I would be likely to be granted a waiver without problems since I was barely above the limit and my eyes were otherwise healthy. However, that didn’t please me all too well since I was wearing my -7.50 prescription and corrected to 20/20 and I don’t want to have to wait to contract and possibly miss a chance to go for OCC-200.
After lunch and some more staring at each other, I grab my medical folder and finally check out of MEPS around 2:00PM and head directly to the OSO office where Capt. Lawson immediately tells me to get an eye exam at Walmart and fax him the results. We go over the paperwork I need to get to finish my application, take a picture for my application, fingerprints etc… I should be able to contract on Monday or at worst Tuesday after I gather all that stuff and take my PFT.
Walmart Eye exam:
Looks like I should be fine, although my vision declined slightly, I’m at -8.00 and -7.75 for glasses instead of -7.75 and -7.50 for both eyes. That will have to be enough.
Advice: Turn off and don’t use your cellphone. Else they will body slam you, throw you against the wall and stomp on your head.
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I literally just got done with MEPS myself. I agree with the cell phone. Also, do NOT finish your medical history form before the person explaining every line finishes that explanation. They will kick you out of the classroom and put “lack ability to follow orders” on your final evaluation of that day. I think you also forgot the breathilizer at the beginning of the day possibly followed by “congratulations, you’re sober.”
does anyone know what kind of lab work you have done if there is too much sugar in your pee?