Need some serious advice/help

[Mom2JT]

Hi All, 

I haven't been on this site for a while.  I'm not going to get into a lot of the back story other than to say that my son is still in Corpsman School and He left home July 2011.  Needless to say there have been some hiccups.

My question is, based on some situations that he has experienced lately that have put him under a level of stress he has never experienced,  he is wanting to go back on his meds for ADHD.  The problem, our recruiter basically told us not to say anything, Don't ask Don't tell basically.  I asked her numberous times about as he was delayed entry and we had plenty of time to get whatever we needed before he shipped out.  He had been off his meds for 2 years before he enlisted.  My concern is that if he were to disclose this now they will discharge him.  He's been in 8 months.  Will they separate him?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.  I'm pretty beside myself at the moment

[Kathy (AOMom)]

I believe its called fraudulent enlistment if he tells now and it wont be good. Wait AuntM and Angie will tell you the details. How is he going to get the meds? He can only take meds prescribed by Navy doctors? He could get into serious trouble for taking anything else, then what, tell them he had them before? this wont fall on the recruiter, it will fall on your sailor.

I could be way off, but I have asked my sailor about how the prescription rules work, and what they check when you have random drug tests, I know someone who tested positive from the army, and got discharged with only 3 months left.

[Mom2JT]

if he were to go back on meds there is no question, it would be through the proper channels.  I'm just concerned, based on what I've been told on this site that he will be discharged due to non disclosure.

I just kicking myself for not pushing harder on this issue, and it makes me mad that the recruiter was adamant about not saying anything.

[TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom)]

recruiters often want to get SRs through their pipeline and into bootcamp.  After that?  They are finished with them, they've done their job.

 

That is the reason they have the "moment of truth" in bootcamp, to make sure nothing has been hidden, or not disclosed.  Mine didn't have issues with medications but had to get waiver for high school sports injury, nothing major but it required an MRI and some time on crutches.  He disclosed EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING.  Ended up having to get a vision waiver that was cleared at MEPS but during a special physical at bootcamp, it came up again.  So he had to get a waiver while in Great Lakes.

 

Waivers can be obtained for some things prior to bootcamp but if something was not disclosed, that creeps back in later, that would probably spell trouble.

[CaptainFatso]

Yep and it gets me fired up too.

I went through this with my daughter's recruiter, although I pressed for full disclosure despite his "wink, wink, I didn't really say this" counsel.

The recruiting system is dysfunctional like this and its been that way for decades. I don't care where you go in this nation, someone has a tale to tell that's similar to yours.

For whatever reason, the recruiters, MEPS and the RTC don't seem to be playing for the same team. Worse, this dysfunctional crap seems to be consistent across all four branches of the service.

I don't have a fix, but I am getting a little tired of hearing how its always some pimple faced seaman recruit bearing the brunt of p!$$ poor recruiting practices that are a direct result of well paid apathetic management.