So I passed my ASVAB. I have 18 college credits, but I need a waiver from a collasped lung which was spontaneous, from 5 years ago. I also need a moral waiver for a DUI. Is this at all possible to get at this time. I have all documents from the doc. saying that my chances of this ever happening again are slim to none. Like I said, this was 5 years ago and my DUI was 3 years ago. I also wanted to know how difficult it is to get in infantry at this time.

For you DUI, Use the Find Button, HollywoodMarine answers it. Read the Thread by JD09.

Now for the about the Spontaneous pneumothorax(collapsed lung). You are going to have to give some more information.
I mean, a collpsed lung is not something you want to Screw around with, I sure you are aware of. But you have to give some details, was there a Medical condition that caused it? Asthma, Bronchitis, Pneumonia? because a spontaneous pneumothorax is something that is more associated with elderly people than younger people. God help you if you are in the field and the Corpsman doesn't have the sweet little needle. If there is no contributing factors why it collapsed, what make them certain it wont happen again? also if there was a medical condition that caused it and you can doucument that you fixed it than you can honestly say it is very unlikely it will happen again.The devil is in the details. Depending on if MEPS is giving accepting waivers right now you may have to wait until Oct before you can enlist. DOCUMEMNT EVERYTHING BOTH MEDICAL AND LEGAL. Not to mention you are going to have to write letter about both issues. you are talking to a Marine that had to have his case reviewed by a medical board, before he enlisted.

IF you have nothing else Criminally other than the DUI, you can get in with a waiver. but you biggest hurdle is that lung of yours. Get you run time up do anything to helps prove your lung is good. I can't tell you what MEPS will do. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING!!!! good luck

Well it was spontaneous because from what I am told everyone has blebs on their lungs, well mine was irritated and had burst which happens sometimes to skinny males that smoke. What they did was surgically remove the blebs from my lung and used surgical staples to hold it in place to heal back up where they removed the blebs. Since the five years I quit smoking, I had regular check ups and doctor notes in my file that says I have pretty much no chance of it happening again. I exercise regular, running, push ups, weight liffting, ext. and have gained 20 pounds which puts me at 165 and im 6'2. So to say I am in pretty good shape. I have no breathing problems, I usually run about 3 miles every other day. The main thing that I was worried about was how hard it will be to get waivers at this point because I had to wait 3 years to try and re-enlist again because of the lung issue and now that the economy is bad and slots are filling up so quick, I kind of figured it might be hard trying to get these waivers. I really hope it wont be that difficult because for the past 3 years I have stuck to my plan and tried really hard to get in the condition that I need to be in, so the military will exept me. This is my destiny and I wont give up until I am a marine. I am not trying to join because of the economy or anything to that sort, I am doing it because this is something that I have to do, I can not see myself enjoying anything else more then doing something that gives me pride in what I am doing.

Waivers are hard to come by right now due to the number of applicants NOT requiring waivers coming in.

Your DUI may keep you from joining---for now.

See what your recruiter says. If moral waivers are on hold, you may have to wait until 1 October. Hopefully the new requirements by then will allow for more waivers. (No guarantees though.)

If you're told "not right now" then all you can do is follow up with your recruiter. And you'd best do that because (again) they are swamped with the more qualified applicants and are processing them first. If you don't follow up and an opening was there that someone needing similar waivers grabbed, then you're SOL.

So, see your recruiter and see what the current reg is for moral waivers.