Rejected from Army

janibrown

My daughter has just been told that she is not eligible for military service due to her medical history, she had taken 2 overdoses a couple of years ago and they have said she can appeal can anyone give me any advice of what she can do as this is something she has been working really hard at over the past 6 months to get her fitness levels up and is now on top form, she is devestated about this is there anything we can do
Sorry its not money saving just really need some good advice please
Many Thanks

Fergie76

Better off asking for advice on Arrse.

janibrown

Thanks will take a look

Esoog

Not really to do with the appeal, but take a look at the AFCO5 which has a brief overview of medical conditions that are unsuitable for Army Service;

https://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/AFCO_Form5-U.pdf


An appeals process is likely to be a lengthy process but if she's dead set it can't hurt to try.

KierNet

Be careful on Arrse! Their humour is...different to say the lease!

Have you looked at it from the Armys point of view? Having someone working for them who has tried to kill themselves, possibly having a job with weapons etc.

Worth appealing though, don't want the 'what if' for ever!

samm1551

jani as long as you post it in the recruit section and not the naafi section you should be alright on arrse

montymud

Arrse is good and there is also armyjobs on facebook where recruiters are sometimes on hand to oer up any suddestions.

vixtay_2

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Fergie76

On Rum Ration the Navy equivalent of Arrse, there are a couple of Recruiters on there, on of them goes by name of NinjaStoker , I think. Deffo, Ninja something. He might be able to give you a couple of pointers.

gt568

To be brutal, in the current recruitment climate, its very unlikely anybody with mental issues will be accepted. Save yourself the time, trust me.

mountainofdebt

Fergie's almost right - the person on rumration is ninja_stoker.

The other person on rumration who may be able to give you some pointers is another poster is angrydoc who is a serving naval doctor. It may be worth asking him what specific part of JSP 346 the army authorities have referred to (JSP346 is the tri-service medical standards that will have been referred to).

Once you know this you know what your daughter is dealing with.