Careers: Military--Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines, Coast Guard/Air Force 2B Discharge 5 years ago

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Thank you for your time in reading this, sir.  I hope you can help me get some answers.

I was discharged in 2005 from active Air Force, with a "2B" re-enlistment code.  The circumstances surrounding this discharge were my admission to OSI that I had taken un-prescribed Percocet on 4 seperate occassions.  My home was extensively searched, my ex-wife questioned, and I was drug tested several times - all negative.  

I know that a 2B means I cannot be considered for re-enlistment in the Air Force, but I was curious if I might have a chance of getting waivered into the Army or National Guard?  

These events happened 6 years ago, and I was very young and obviously made a very dumb decision.  Does that effectively mean that any future in any branch is now unavailable to me?  

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Right now, you cannot enlist.  The reason why is the circumstances around drugs.  Right now no service is taking any type of drug waivers.  they can do this because od the high quantity and quality of recruits now a days.

It would also depend on the SPD code.  This would help determine the level of waiver needed when they start allowing those waivers.  

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