Maybe she should have told the Navy that she wanted to go to law school and stay in the Navy. I went to high school with a guy who went all the way through college in NROTC, only to be turned down for officer’s training school because of his eye sight. He ended up a jag. I guess someone decided the glasses didn’t matter so much as a lawyer.
Military is funny, and it depends on the times. ROTC grad in 1980 with Chem Eng degree. Choose Chem Corp, but half way in tha paper work, they could not give it to me because the Chem Corp just got re classified as combat support, thus my eyesight and glasses precluded me from being in it. Next closest MOS was Ordnance Corp (despite name most officers end up being maintenance officers). Went into the Reserves, found a local unit, but no ordnance slots, so they assigned me to be a training officer in an Infantry One Station Unit Training division. Spent most of my career in the reserves as a basic training officer for infantry. Most of my annual training was in Ft Benning GA, home of the infantry. When I was assigned the battalion mob officer duty, I looked up what my war plan duties were. Guess what, in the worst case scenario, the basic training unit upon finishing infantry school, ALL the officers (disregarding branch) will be deployed with the unit as a replacement for any losses. In other words all that time spent in the basic training IN-OSUT company I was essentially an infantry officer despite my “poor” eyesight. An old sarge once told me, when the crap hits the fan, everyone will be infantry!! Wonder if things have changed since then.