# Not fit for military service - why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389 "2002-09-07T04:41:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389/21 "2002-09-14T18:34:48Z")

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**D-Odds**

All the branches have their little quirks.

I’m still stressing over the 20/900 stuff. Even with correction I’m sure that would spell no-go to any military service.

Unless, of course, your dog is also accepted into the K-9 corps.

And I’ve heard that the AF trains for fifteen minutes or so in Basic with the M-15, and then never lays eyes on a weapon again. I guess in the event of combat, they’d have to keep the M-16s away from the AF so they won’t hurt themselves, LOL.

Talked to Hubster. He was an Army Recruiter, and he said the cutoff for UNCORRECTED vision was 20/200.  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389/22 "2002-09-14T18:37:38Z")

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Sorry, M-16

I think I forgot to take my vitamins, LOL  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389/23 "2002-09-14T23:20:03Z")

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WOW, the point D-Odds was trying to make is that there were no universal AF recruiting based on all personnel being physically “flight-capable”, as distinct from all Army recruits being “combat capable” (I’m sure the same would go for the Marines).

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-fit-for-military-service-why/127389/24 "2002-09-14T23:57:36Z")

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**Jimbo**

Yeah, I got that part.

No matter WHAT branch, though, there are still minimum standards. According to Hubster, 20/200 uncorrected vision is the cutoff.

(oh, and it’s “VOW”…LOL, “WOW” is what you say when you experience my wit and eloquence…)

~VOW

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