Of course, in the event of a large scale war those standards would get relaxed. I had no idea that ADHD meds were a disqualifier.
IIRC, any ADHD meds
ever used to be disqualifying.
Thing is, now many of the best recruits have been prescribed ADHA meds. I am finding out that a HUGE proportion of kids in competitive private schools take ADHD meds. These are not dumb kids and they are not discipline problems(1), just a little unfocused like many school-aged boys. That is enough to make them uncompetitive in the more academically rigorous schools and perhpas underperform on high-stakes standardized tests.
These are the sort of boys who enlist in the armed forces instead of going into accounting or HR. They are smart but crave stimulation. They can get things done when they are motivated to do so. The military can do that for them.
(1) Well, some teachers who can not deal with good-natured active/adventurous boy behavior would call it a discipline problem. Put that boy in a class taught by a man who knows how to deal with boys and over half would likely focus enough when it counted to not need ADD meds.
