heart condition + military?

[vo-zhd]

can you be fit for diving and parachuting duty if you have a mitral valve prolapse (regurgitation), or any kind of murmur disqualifies you?

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[BigNavyPedsGuy]

can you be fit for diving and parachuting duty if you have a mitral valve prolapse (regurgitation), or any kind of murmur disqualifies you?

Don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that would disqualify you.

 

[vo-zhd]

Don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that would disqualify you.

thanks. so any kind of heart murmur disqualifies?

 

[njaqua]

Don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that would disqualify you.

I thought that MVP was usually a relatively benign condition.

 

[Croooz]

Served 10 years active + 2 reserve with one.

 

[USAFGMODOC]

Don't know your branch's specifics, but from my experience in the USAF, MVP for flyers/jumpers required a cardiology consultation, echo and sometimes other testing as recommended by the consultant. Most of the time, waivers for special duty flyers/jumpers were granted, but required regular/periodic f/u by a specialist.

I can't think of one that didn't get a waiver for simple MVP (with trivial/trace regurg), but if you have other abnormalities it may not be as clear cut.

 

[vo-zhd]

thanks!

 

[BOHICA-FIGMO]

Don't know about MVP, but I have WPW pattern and went through the standard holter, echo, and thalium scan to get a waiver for my flying class iii when I was in the USAF.