Ok, so went through the Marines MEPS Physical and the doctor found an inguinal hernia. Yet, my recruiter's boss pulled some strings and went through with a MEDREP waiver.

What this basically means, is that I will go to Boot with the hernia, but will have the surgery at Beaufort Naval Hospital, and I'll basically be there for four weeks; pre-op, operation and recovery. So, a total of 4 months at boot camp.

Recruiter said this is the first time, they have done this personally. But it has been done before. Just to keep my head up, cause I'll be around people whom are faking sick, suicidal, crying, and trying to get back home

To me, this is smarter to have the Marines pay for the surgery, since Doc and Recruiter said if I had the operation privatively. It would take time to set up the surgery, and then when thats done. 6-8 weeks before I can even consider the military ago. And then there's the process of recruiter paperwork, and DEP, instead of being able to leave in a few weeks right now. And not to mention it will be paid for. (Currently in DEP, everything went through, waiver seem to take a few seconds actually, my liaison at MEPS didn't even mention it as an option, my recruiter brought it up.)

Does anyone have experience with this?

When I was a recruiter there was an applicant who had the same thing. He also got a waiver and had the surgery at the Naval hospital. He got the surgery and graduated from Recruit Training with no problems.

A Marine that was in my platoon at boot camp did that. They didnt descover the hernia till he got to MEPS the day to ship but they shipped him anyway. He did what you described and graduated with me. If you realy wanna spend an extra month or so on that god forsaken hospital then by all means...but being there a month is a long time when you're there.

Yea, a lot of people had problems believing me when I told them, they were like, what is the purpose of the physical then? Not to mention, no other branch allows this.

It's been a long time since I was a drill instructor, but I can tell you how this use to work.

You'll be assigned to a recruit platoon for in-processing and then medicaly dropped the second or third training day. You will be assigned to the recruit medical rehabilitation platoon until you are sufficiently recovered to return to training.

This will be a dropt from training and recycle -- you get one. Basically you come out of medical rehab platoon with as if you had been recycled as a fat body, weak body, or motivation problem. You'll get one more chance, screwed and you're going home.

Wow, so If I am out of shape, there would no way I would be sent in PCP, I would just be sent home, huh?

If your a fat body too your really need to get in shape before you start this process. I garauntee if you have to be in MRP and then PCP before you even start training? You're gonna wish you'd never thought about the Marine Corps. And most regular recruits think that same thing, so just imagine...