< You are not the first one to run into this regulation . There was a big expose on talk radio a few months ago on the problems with Ritalin, and the fact that it would make many good men ineligible for military service someday was a major point that was raised. Good luck--keep trying. This situation really sucks.


Thank you for the article. Things have really changed. 10% of chilren are now on Ritilan, last I heard.
Thats a lot of folks, and the recruters are really frustrated. The marine recruters when I was visiting them ran the questions by me and when I said "yeagh I think I might have taken ritilan, it was the generic form, so they didn't call it that" he said. . . . "uhm ok, if you 'think' you took it then you really didn't ok?"

Well it might get me in the military, but I am not lying. I know about every recruter tried in some way to get me to cover up stuff, but covering up that stuff is a 5 thousand dollar fine and many years in prison if caught, the recruters would get the commision on me and I woudl go to jail or get fined when they chekc into me for a security clearance.
However, thing as they are don't look too bad, the military has gotten far more slack about ritilan use, the Navy is very slack as I understand. The Army recruters said that 'prospects looked good' for me enlisting with them. We shall see. . . many of them say that you need to be off it at least a year and things are fine. . . well, I've not been perscribed it for a year, and I wasn't even taking it when they were perscribing it and I still got rejected from the airforce. . .

-Justin Kelly