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We've just been called that our son will now be ship 5 due to a medical - failing hearing test.  Anyone help with this?  He was only 9 days into BC. sonja

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I am so sorry to hear that...there is a group for Ship 5 that may answer some of your questions. They have Seps Admins that are on the group that answer questions. If you can't find the group let me know.
Chances are he'll be separated from the Navy unless it's a condition that will improve. I'm surprised they didn't catch the hearing loss at MEPS. The medical tests they put them through beforehand are pretty rigorous, if he had it then they should have caught it.
thank you to your replies - we also thought they should have caught this before he left - 30% hearing loss in right ear. With him going into the Nukes program after BC, he thought he was set and very excited! Now we're awaiting word of his return and a young man needing a new dream.
Is your son still there? My son has been there since September 27.
My son came home on Tueday, October 12. He is so grateful to be home, but even after 2 days, he's having a very hard time readjusting to leaving. Turns out they did find the hearing loss before he left and it should have been a stopping point, but they let him go anyway. He's depressed about a lot that he saw in the Ship 5 displacements. I'm telling him to give it a month to unwind, but he thinks it's his fault about not "making it" through basics, and is lost. I'm sure he'll feel a sense of loss when his "Graduation date" passes as well.
my son is still there. It is 21 days today. He doesn't sound good.

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