cozdude
Guy with a Red 2-Door
So I'm stepping out of my comfort zone a bit here and reaching out to all of you and asking you to send me your good vibes. Why you my ask? Good question. Tomorrow is my D-day you can say for me to continue pursuing a new career in the US Coast Guard. After 3 years and so many months of the run around I am off to get a final physical to see if I can go to basic training.
A little insure for you as to why I am reaching out. When I was 11 I injured my knee in a hockey clinic. Imagine standing straight up, knee locked, and then your right leg making a perfect 90* angle out to the right. That's what happened to me. Luckily I didn't tear anything. At the age of 18 I had an arthroscopy surgery to clean out cartilage from the back of my knee cap and remove fluid from my knee.
After going to school for 3 years and just getting my associates I decided to drop out. I hated the atmosphere and decided to pursue a passion, boating. I instantly thought of the movie guardian and said I wanna be in the coast guard.
The start of spring semester in 2011 I went to recruiting office in Philly and started what I thought would be an easy process. Little did I know my recruiter dismissed me right from the get go because of my knee. After two long years of little talking with him, taking my asvab, and going to meps, I found out I was disqualified and my last resort was reserves. So off to reserves and a new recruiter I went to pursue my dream.
At the start of this year I got word from my new recruiter that I could try for full time again if I wanted. Of course I said! Once again I had to take the asvab. I improved my score to a 72 from a 68! Then comes meps. Now for the past few months in preparing for meps I lost over 20 lbs in 3 months! For my height (6'2") the CG says I need to be 208lbs. I went from 220 to 197! As I said earlier tomorrow is my d-day. Tomorrow I got to meps and hope for the best to go to basic training. I hope all this hard work I put in pays off.
So please send me your good vibes because I am really nervous about tomorrow! I may not show it or talk about it but I really am. I hope the docs look over me and see nothing is wrong and fit for duty. I will keep you guys posted on when I hear more if you like.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Steve
A little insure for you as to why I am reaching out. When I was 11 I injured my knee in a hockey clinic. Imagine standing straight up, knee locked, and then your right leg making a perfect 90* angle out to the right. That's what happened to me. Luckily I didn't tear anything. At the age of 18 I had an arthroscopy surgery to clean out cartilage from the back of my knee cap and remove fluid from my knee.
After going to school for 3 years and just getting my associates I decided to drop out. I hated the atmosphere and decided to pursue a passion, boating. I instantly thought of the movie guardian and said I wanna be in the coast guard.
The start of spring semester in 2011 I went to recruiting office in Philly and started what I thought would be an easy process. Little did I know my recruiter dismissed me right from the get go because of my knee. After two long years of little talking with him, taking my asvab, and going to meps, I found out I was disqualified and my last resort was reserves. So off to reserves and a new recruiter I went to pursue my dream.
At the start of this year I got word from my new recruiter that I could try for full time again if I wanted. Of course I said! Once again I had to take the asvab. I improved my score to a 72 from a 68! Then comes meps. Now for the past few months in preparing for meps I lost over 20 lbs in 3 months! For my height (6'2") the CG says I need to be 208lbs. I went from 220 to 197! As I said earlier tomorrow is my d-day. Tomorrow I got to meps and hope for the best to go to basic training. I hope all this hard work I put in pays off.
So please send me your good vibes because I am really nervous about tomorrow! I may not show it or talk about it but I really am. I hope the docs look over me and see nothing is wrong and fit for duty. I will keep you guys posted on when I hear more if you like.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Steve
