My situation
I would love to enlist. I have always WANTED to enlist. My prob is two-fold.
1) I am overweight, and despite my attempts to lose the weight (including nearly starving myself and running nearly ten miles a day!!!) have failed miserably. I went to a doctor, only to find out that i AM one of those people who has a serious physical problem. My metabolism is so slow that I don't process the food I eat for months. I have managed to keep the same weight, but losing it is nearly impossibly aside from maybe surgery, or expensive chemical treatments to right the metabolic issue.
2) I broke both knees in a skiing accident, and they are both pinned. I was on a bunny slope, first time I ever went skiiing, and my instructor was too frickin busy talking to a snow bunny to instruct me. Needless to say, the guy just said "Yeah, just point down the hill, and turn from side to side" and sent me on my merry way. I ended up on my back on top of a 1994 (which was brand new, since it was December of 93 when this happened) BMW. Broke four ribs, my left arm, snapped both knees, my legs actually twisted about 180 degrees from the knees down... took me two years of therapy to walk correctly, and during that time, I put on a majority of the weight I carry now.
Still, I took the tests, and found that I was, other than the physical aspects, quite capable of Nuke Navy. They wanted to put me through "crash training" (I lied about my knees) to get rid of the weight, because they wanted to put me in training as a nuke engineer. Also, I spent some time with my brother, who enlisted in the Marines (fell of an A-Frame on the confidence course. . . the rope wrapped around his leg and broke it, then snapped and he fell another 45 feet or so onto his back, broke it in two places) and his recruiter, Staff Sargeant (sp?) Briggs, at the shooting range. He was very impressed by my marksmanship. I shoot an older Remington .30-06 bolt action, with fairly cheap Bushnel 6x optics, and was still putting in a nice 1x1 inch grouping at about 450m or so. His EXACT remark after our day at the shooting rank was "Son, if you weren't such a fat body, I would recommend you for the USMC Sniper Scouts. Keep shooting like that and get that fat ass in shape, and talk to me in a year or two."
Oh well, maybe some day.