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9. That's so surreal, now the military tries its best to keep recruits out

Reply to Cicada (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:51 AM

Sep 2020

When I tried joining the military several years ago I got permanently disqualified instead just for failing the hearing test. So many other guys got booted out of MEPS too solely for stuff like tattoos or having prior surgery scars.

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Missing in action: Trump's bone spurs. Bone spurs don't just vanish. [View all] Imallin4Joe Sep 2020 OP

Bone spurs do not go away Gothmog Sep 2020 #1

100% correct. Imallin4Joe Sep 2020 #6

Surgery will fix them. I had surgery for bone spurs (plantar fasciitis) in both feet. However, tblue37 Sep 2020 #2

You're right.. Imallin4Joe Sep 2020 #4

No need to search the records. Virtually everything Trump has ever said has been a self-serving lie. BKDem Sep 2020 #3

we'll see those right after we see his taxes... spanone Sep 2020 #5

I beat the draft physical doctors. They weren't pushovers. Cicada Sep 2020 #7

That's so surreal, now the military tries its best to keep recruits out ansible Sep 2020 #9

Did you have an envelope with $5000 to slip them? greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #10

I never heard of a bribe then, and I would have heard Cicada Sep 2020 #13

I mean, we know for an absolute certainty that a doctor renting from his father greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #14

Was your dad a multi-millionaire? JHB Sep 2020 #11

The connected and rich got into the national guard. Cicada Sep 2020 #16

Let's not forget good ole Dan Quayle. Throckmorton Sep 2020 #20

Correct. Those like me screwed your brother. Cicada Sep 2020 #23

Nobody was checked for bone spurs at the induction center. pwb Sep 2020 #15

Everybody knows that Trump's father paid a doctor renting one of his properties greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #8

The doctor's family said they believed he helped Trump, Fred Trump was his landlord. But no. Cicada Sep 2020 #17

Well , you go on ahead greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #18

Xrays are cheap, easy and definitive. An examining doctor and his supervisor would require one. Cicada Sep 2020 #21

#bonespurs never go away and are exacerbated when wearing heeled footwear Gothmog Sep 2020 #12

Drumpf the draft dodger BlueWavePsych Sep 2020 #19

Maybe it's time we Swiftboated him - paybacks are a real beetch Mr. Ected Sep 2020 #22