Weight Requirements

The weight limit is a 'hard' limit... if over then you get tape tested.

Just is totally correct. I would be prepared to go in there about two pounds under according to the scale at home because then you know you're covered.

I went to MEPS the 1st time 3 lbs under. Then the 2nd time through MEPS I was a single pound over and had to be taped. I was so shocked since my home scale had me 5 pounds under (before and after). So you never really know...

That SUCKS!!!

When I went to MEPS, I was not long from having my horrid Mirena IUD removed (don't believe the "no weight gain", ladies - some of us are still affected by the hormones they claim are confined to one location...). I was three pounds under the max for my height and I knew it. I'd checked on THREE scales. At my physical, I got weighed by an Army person (I was in there with about twelve girls all enlisting in the Army; I was the only officer candidate and the only Air Force person in the room) and she proceeded to announce to the entire room that I was overweight. I asked her to check the weight standards - the Air Force chart was right on the board in front of us - and she insisted I was overweight. I stepped off the scale and to the side while everyone else was weighed in.

I guess for the Army standards I was overweight for my height and would need to be taped, but not for the Air Force.

Finally she listened to me - and then apologized for publicly embarrassing me in another room away from everyone. I wasn't impressed much.

It wasn't the getting taped that bothered me, if it had been necessary. No problem there.

It was really the announcement to the room that I was overweight that bugged me. I was fortunate enough to not be - the number was right on the scale - but what about some poor soul who actually was??

I've never really trusted the scales at a doctor's office myself. You have to wonder how much on and off they can take and if they're REALLY calibrated correctly.

nothing like being stripped down and told you are overweight in front of a bunch of twenty-somethings....:chair:

lol Lunah! When I went to MEPS this time I was in the room with 2 kids. You know stripped down to our underthings in a freezing room with some old doctor watching us do our ROM exercises. I think those kids creaked more than I did! (my knees crack and I was worried about the noise!)

My problem was that the girl took an inch of my height away. I thought I was almost 5'3", but I'm really not quite 5'2".

Same thing happened to me. In a room full of 19 year olds. Nice.

And somewhere I shrunk an inch between home and MEPS - I, too, lost an inch!