Posted on 10/10/2016 2:56:15 PM PDT by BBell
The Military is being very picky these days. They want the most perfect people they can get.
Lasik and radial keratotomy are verrrryy different surgeries. R.K. involves multiple cuts into the cornea and can severely weaken it. In Lasik, a thin layer of the top the cornea is taken off and the rest is reshaped with a laser. No where near as invasive as R.K.
I don’t know about R.K. but I’m pretty sure that eyesight can disqualify you from being an Air Force pilot and they won’t allow lasik (or at least they didn’t in the past.)
The Navy will (or did) allow their pilots to have had lasik.
As is the one that followed (long read). Two kinds of enemies, using two different means (lawyers would be interested), both with the intent to destroy in two different ways, both possessed by the devil.
Was he from Arizona?
I hear that state is doing the job that the border patrol won’t do.
They're tribals with 21st century weapons.
That, plus maimed, hormally-incoherent transsexuals
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