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can you join the navy with dyslexia?
Dear Ross -
If you have graduated from high school, and can read and write well enough to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and pass, then dyslexia will not keep you from entering the service. However, if the dyslexia causes you to be functionally illiterate (cannot read new material spontaneously) then you could not enlist.
Good luck to you.
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Careers: Military--Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines, Coast Guard
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Cynthia Bedell
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I am the Commander of the Surface Communications and Support Systems, contract management office. I am currently an active duty Colonel.
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I have bachelors and masters degrees in Engineering. I also hold a patent for a new way to process composite materials into complex shapes.
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