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thenuttyneutron:
I took and passed the POSS 2 weeks ago and received a job offer.  I am now scheduled for a physical and a MMPI.  I wanted to know about these tests.  I have a very bad problem with reading into questions too much and it has cost me in the past.  For example, I once used an inhaler for an illness while in high school.  While at MEPS for ROTC I answered all their questions 100% truthful and was disqualified for having asthma.  I have never had asthma in my life.  According to them I did because I had admitted to using an inhaler.  I am worried I may make a similar mistake in the physical.

What are the types of physical conditions that will disqualify me?  I have no health problems but sometimes get a tight knee when the weather gets cold from an old sports injury.  Will these kinds of things be their focus?

What the heck is the MMPI?

halflifer:
MMPI is a 500+ question 'personality inventory.' Did you love your mother? Did you fear your father? Are you an alcoholic? Do you hallucinate? That kind of thing.  A number of the questions will be asked over and over again in different ways. They are looking for consistancy in your answers.

RDTroja:
MMPI = Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

It is a profile to determine 'stability' and is designed to weed out the 'knowledgable psychotic'. The main drawback is that it was created in the 1930s with a bunch of Minnesota farmers as the control group. Halflifer is right about the questions -- they are numerous and repetitive. Don't think too hard about it and take the questions literally. If you try to give answers you think they are looking for, you will just screw yourself up. I think it is designed to be a little painful as part of the evaluation... they succeded.

thenuttyneutron:
What kinds of physical conditions disqualify people from service? 

FYI I know some people with epilepsy can't have certain jobs.  Are there conditions like that that you cannot have?  I am afraid of repeating my MEPS screw up by being too honest and forth coming.  Am I worried too much?  In MEPS I think they were actually looking to screw people.

Smart People:
the physical is most likely for respirator use and hazmat baseline. they make you blow into a tube and check your vitals, usually if you can breath you will pass.

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