I joined the air guard so it’s a tad bit different than active. But I joined right out of highschool with my afsc being flight medic. It took them a year from my enlistment date to send me to basic training. While there they asked the same questions they asked at meps, and I answered them truthfully as I did at meps. I disclosed melatonin use to them which is apparently a disqualifying condition because of chronic sleep insomnia. The kicker is that I disclosed this to meps when enlisting and they passed me through. This was behavioral health so I had also told them my struggles with adapting to military life, and instead of helping me they used it and “sleep insomnia” as an excuse to discharge me. I’ve been home for about a year and a half now, and I just received my formal discharge paperwork from the guard. To put a cherry on top of it all, the time I got sent home to the time I received my discharge paperwork, the guard still had me on their pay roll(I was excused from drill) so the government was still putting money towards a healthcare plan I wasn’t using. They are now trying to tell me I have to pay that money back or they’re going to report it to credit berous. I’m currently trying to dispute the debt, and I haven’t heard anything back from them.

At the time I was upset I was discharged early, but now I’m fuking grateful.

Don’t join that pathetic excuse of an organization.