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[sraun]

My younger step-daughter, kosmickiten, got word from the Air Force yesterday - Permanent Medical Disqualification. I assume this means she has been kicked out of Air Force ROTC.

While I feel for her, I cannot claim to be surprised - this is the same step-daughter who's had several concussions since going off to college. Just how accident-prone can you be and still have the Air Force be willing to have you?

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[selenite.livejournal.com]

Well, they kept me despite muscle pulls, a sprained ankle, broken bone from skiing, and various other minor stuff. I'd guess it was the concussions that made the difference. In particular, there's a rule that you can't be a pilot of you've been knocked out for more than N seconds (pilot candidates would avoid some hazardous stuff because of that).

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

She must be awfully disappointed. That's really sad when your career path takes a sudden detour.

[sraun]

I haven't talked to her myself, but the impressions I've been getting have been strongly in that direction. It certainly didn't help that she has a history of planning things out minutely, and if anything goes wrong anywhere along the line, she falls apart. And she had - as near as I could tell - not thought at all about what she was going to do if she didn't get into the Air Force.