Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
A heart murmur-even one that wasn't a problem, kept plenty of kids out of Nam. Not sure what else.

I joined the navy at 17 in 1964 just as Johnson was beginning to escalate our ADVISORS(yeah). I had a mild heart murmur but didn't stop me until 2006 when I had my first heart attack. Flat Feet, and Conscientious Objectors who went to Canada, then came back stopped a lot of young men back then. Ear problems, vision problems and the tricks of Increasing their BODY TEMP with all sorts of stuff placed in their armpits got a lot of them caught too!