even if i was disqualifed for the marines due to hearing loss can i still join another branch?
nickvargas52 asked:
can i join another branch?
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can i join another branch?
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
You can check but the services are going to have the same minimum standards for hearing. Now their are waivers out there but they are hard to get.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Not likely but possible. It depends on the seriousness of the hearing loss.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
if you could learn to be a lip reader there could be some kind of government work. maybe in civil service like law enforcement.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Nope. All the military branches would share the information they found out.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
see if the army will give you a waiver, these days the army is so shorthanded theyll give you a waiver easier than the other branches will
March 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Perhaps all this is familar?
2–7. Hearing
a. Audiometers, calibrated to standards of the International Standards Organization (ISO 8253:1 1989) (reference
(c)) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI 1996), will be used to test the hearing of all applicants.
b. All audiometric tracings or audiometric readings recorded on reports of medical examination or other medical
records will be clearly identified.
c. Current hearing threshold level in either ear greater than that described below is disqualifying:
(1) Pure tone at 500, 1000, and 2000 cycles per second for each ear of not more than 30 decibels (dB) on the
average, with no individual level greater than 35 dB at those frequencies.
(2) Pure tone level not more than 45 dB at 3000 cycles per second or 55 dB at 4000 cycles per second for each ear.
(3) There is no standard for 6000 cycles per second.
d. Current or history of hearing aid use (V53.2) is disqualifying.
That is the standard. You have already failed it unless the Marines require even better hearing.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:55 am
chances are, no, because branches share information with each other when a person tries to join other branches =\