The new Pentagon bases limit medical concessions to join the army

The Pentagon has released new rules that would prevent people who are currently treated from schizophrenia, congestive heart failure, or a donor member or some other issues from receiving a medical waiver of the army, according to a new memorandum on Tuesday.

The directives, signed by Defense Minister Beit Higseth and dated July 11, update the list of conditions that prevent potential recruits from joining the armed forces. The decision follows the review of the currently qualified medical cases to obtain a concession, which was announced in April, as well as the Pentagon ban on the transgender forces, which was earlier this year.

“The war men in America must be physically and mentally capable of performing their duties in the most severe conditions,” he wrote in the memo. “Severe medical conditions that determine great risks on the battlefield and threaten not only the priorities of the task, but also the health and safety of the affected individual and her fellow members of the service.”

Among the medical issues that exclude a person from applying a history of cystic fibrosis, the use of the current chronic complementary oxygen, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, that is, a suicide attempt in the past 12 months, bone bone, also known as fragile bone disease, and a date of neutral disorders – have been identified on anything else of sexual partners.

The memo also lists many conditions that require a concession that the Minister of Military Branch gives. This includes the previous heart attack, the presence of cultivated heart attack system or fibrillation, missing eye, hand or foot, previous corneal transplants, liver failure, kidney disease that require dialysis, nervous degeneration disorders, and previous psychotic disorders.

“Our high standards are the cornerstone of the deadly, and the administration must remain vigilant in maintaining these standards,” said Higseth.

The army has long used exemptions to recruit young people who may not be eligible for the armed forces due to medical or cases, as only about 23 percent of American youth who are qualified to recruit without a kind of waiver.

In the past decade, there was an increase in medical concessions, with about 17 percent of the recruits they received in 2022, an increase of 12 percent in 2013, according to a review by a DOD inspector.

The rise in part is due to the expansion of medical conditions for the year 2022 in the Pentagon, which no longer excludes people from recruitment, including childhood asthma and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

The concessions were previously allowed to failure of the heart, the current treatment of schizophrenia and the date of the disorders that are now struck from the list under the new Pentagon bases.

Higseth has gone strongly after anything that the Trump administration considers to negatively affect military readiness, including the standards of grooming, fitness and transgender forces.

The Pentagon began removing the sexual service members of the army in June, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Ministry of Defense might impose a policy that President Trump ordered in January.

Unlike the policy that was enacted during the first period of Trump, which prevented most of the transgender people from service, but an exception to the forces that have already begun to move between the sexes, the new policy is almost no deadline, and anyone with a diagnosis, history or symptoms of dysphagia is considered inappropriate for military service.