Can you join the navy if you had a stroke?

Answer 1

It depends on the extent of the surgery and underlying reason, but usually not. Fusions are automatic disqualifiers, and any invasive surgery is usually to correct an injury or underlying disease. Those alone are usually enough to disqualify you.

Even if it isn't, the current recruiting climate favors the military rather than the recruit. During economic bad times, the military and civil service are the first places people turn to because they're secure jobs. Retention is high, and since there are so many recruits, the military can pick and choose the best candidates. Anyone with a problem isn't going to be on the top rung of choices.

While there are waivers for anything in the military, when dealing with medical matters the person has to have some background or knowledge skill that places him/her above all other prospects for the Navy to go against set regulations, and even then the skill has to be in an area where the medical problem won't likely be a factor. There are few jobs in the Navy where your back isn't strained. My own Navy career helped degenerate my back faster than it would've normally.

Answer 2

Yes. But when you go to a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) they'll ask a bunch of questions about it and you'll have to get a waiver. It's a little more complicated but that's the basics.

Answer 3

No - current Medical Disqualifications for military service in any branch include surgical spinal fusions involving 2 vertebrae (which means pretty much any of them).

Answer 4

if the surgery fixed your back then I'm sure you can do what ever you want!

Answer 5

Possibly. No way of giving an accurate answer here without knowing the extent of your surgery and any long term effects it may be having.

Answer 6

Absolutely not - strokes are an automatic medical disqualifier for any branch of service, not just the Navy.