Gastric Bypass vs Military

WOW, I appreciate your cold and uninterested tone in your response.  I've done research online, and I know the "regulations" but I also know that things CHANGE.

I know that if I meet the qualifications, it NEVER HURTS to try to accomplish my dreams.  Besides, I believe gastric bypass definitely should qualify as a case by case matter.  Each person is different. 

I know what it takes to be a soldier, and I know that being a gastric bypass patient is really rather incompatible with most soldiering. Not ALL, but most.

I also think that people who dream of being military are generally a little bit delusional about what it means to participate in war.

My rank is spouse, US Army, retired. Lots of luck trying to talk some branch of the service into taking you. You're wasting your time and should start thinking about different ways of "bettering our country." How about becoming an educator? You'll improve a lot more lives in that life than you would as a soldier.

Thanks again for the comments. 

I have to point out that you think I am delusional because I "dream" about joining the military....yet my husband has served in Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.  I may not know first hand what it takes to participate in war, but I sure as hell know what it is from a spouse standpoint....and that isn't delusional. 

Btw, we learn that spouses don't wear any rank because they never officially went through bootcamp.  So, he's retired...let him wear the rank.  I'm sure the Army wouldn't give your rank any consideration. 

I've thought about becoming a teacher, and it's on my list of possibilities.  Also, I wouldn't want to become a soldier to improve people's lives.....rather to protect the freedom that we all DON'T deserve...but because of the sacrifice of our military...we get to enjoy. 

WOW, try telling our servicemen and women that their jobs do nothing to improve the quality of life....and I'm sure they'll tell you to go stand on the front lines!

*sigh* I come from a long line of proud veterans, little grasshopper. Long enough to know that you don't have the faintest idea what you'd be getting into with military service, and in particular that you're either too ignorant or too plain stupid to understand WHY you would be a LIABILITY in any of many military scenarios with your altered guts, ESPECIALLY in a combat situation.

But hey, I'm just words on a screen, so you go break a leg changing history for the legions of WLS people who think they want to go to war. Do be sure to let us know when you complete basic training and AIT and get your first duty assignment.

All I am hearing is ME ME  ME   I need to be fullfilled....bla bla bla....what about the children you decided to have? ONLY a short blip about your children in this post. I raised my children, and don't expect to be indentured to raise my childs either so she can "find herself" and isn't fair to the children to have old people and strangers raise them either. You can NEVER GET THOSE YEARS BACK for you or them! Raising children isn't a "opps, changed my mind for MY future", it is now all about them. Sorry, you are second now. Deal with it.

So, it isn't a good enough job for you to be "just a housewife" (man, that is open to all types of interpretations of what "one" is) but people pay big bucks for OTHERS to raise their children then ***** that their kids didn't turn out like they planned! **** that happens with those of us that stuck it out, and then wonder why my kids don't care about me.........

Why did you have children to begin with? Who are you dumping off the responsibility to? THESE are the tough questions to ask! Look your children in the eye and say "goodbye, mom is off to ???" and explain to them why you need this to feel fulfilled. All so to not having a student loan? Your husband has all the benefits/coverage of the military you will need.

Sometimes you have to go along with what you have created in life so far, can't turn the clock around. I get angry because I have taken into my home quite a few children whose parents were too self absorbed to be raising their own, and I got the job, and MINE was unpaid, no benefit package, and often not even a thank you. Self absorbed parents SUCK and the kids (and the others that pick up the pieces behind them) suffer.

I am 57 pounds away from making weight for the Navy Reserves. I had bypass in June 2015. My recruiter just says that as long as I don't have any complications after the surgery, then I could enlist. Everything I read online says that bypass surgery is disqualifying from joining the military. I have no problems with malabsorbtion or dumping. I am also able to drink a gallon of water a day or more. I often am done eating in a very short time. I work in a hospital and my lunches consist of me only having 5 to 10 minutes to eat. My question is, were you able to join? It is my life long dream to serve my country and being married to a man in the Army, just isn't fullfilling that need I have. 

I want to enlist in the marine court, I have a gastric sleeve. I?m curious to know, were you able to enlist with USMC?

Any weight loss surgery will disqualify you from military service.

OMG, are you freakin kidding me?  I want to better OUR life, and this is the kind of bull**** that you decide to write to me?  I can understand that you are pissed because YOU chose to raise someone else's kids, but I didn't make that choice...YOU DID! 

I love my children, and have been here for everything they need (and want) and will continue to do so, but how dare you....accuse me of being a self-absorbed parent because I want to make a better life for my family.  I never said I wanted to completely LEAVE them out of the picture, so who the freak are you to assume so.  I wouldn't just DUMP them on someone, especially not a ****** stranger, and if it meant that we have a better future because of it....so be it. 

I'm not asking to turn the clock around, and haven't even made the full decision to go headlong into the military, but I'll be damned if some self-righteous ***** is going to post a reply to my forum inquiry and try to judge me when she knows NOTHING about me, my family, or what is best for us.  Oh, and I don't plan to look back and wish I had the years back, because so far...I've been here...and again, will continue to do so!  By the way, I am curious to know....how becoming involved in a career and trying to decide the best path for OUR FAMILY is leaving the children out of it?  I posted this because I wanted to make the most informed decision.  Instead, I have some crazy person posting that I'm a "bad parent" because I want to pursue a military career. 

You know, I bet my children, if old enough to understand, would be proud of me for serving their country, because I've taught them to be proud of their father.  Bet you have NO IDEA what it's like to sacrifice yourself for something greater.....oh wait....lemme guess you think ONLY raising kids is that sacrifice.....and I say...BULL****!  My kids will be apart of my life no matter which route I take, and I will be there for them, regardless of the career I choose. 

Obviously, you can't read or comprehend what I wrote in the initial post, and I certainly hope that you keep your rude and ignorant comments to yourself from now on!