Expert: John L - 7/22/2010

Question
Mr. Lewis,

I joined the Marines in Dec.06 thought all was fine and ready to go my recruiter had been fairly straight forward with me. My father on the other hand, a retired LtCol with 30 years under his belt did not fully trust him. My recruiter falsified my run time by taking off 15 seconds to meet that requirement and added an extra pull up. I knew I could do that so I did not think much of it. I told him I had a history of asthma and he told me it was no problem that he would get me the waiver. He then told me that when I went to MEPS that when they asked if I had anything to disclose about anything to say "no" because everything was in my paperwork. He told this to my parents when we had them over for dinner, signed my contract and all was great, I'm ready to go.
I arrived at Parris Island with high hopes as does everyone going off to serve. Well, I missed my run time by a few seconds and was dropped to PCP and them came down with mono, now I'm in MRP. Corpsman gave me tests because I was having a hard time breathing then sent me to the doc.
To cut this short my waiver was never in my paperwork nor was me ever disclosing that I had asthma. Discharged with separation code JDA1- fraud (no board) and reenlistment code RE3P- physical disorder not fit for OCS.
My father checked with Marine Corps Headquarters and found out that fraudulent enlistment is not on my records there. But, on my DD214 it is. Why is it different in their system than on my DD214? Is it possible to still reenlist in any branch or am I SOL? If so I want to do this the right way. I don't want my dreams to be shot down because of some lazy recruiter. No offense to you I know there are more honest recruiters than dishonest, I just got one of the bad ones.

Answer
Witht taht code you could re enlits, but the issue is the asthma, you obviously still have issues with breathing when exercising, and that is the thing that will deny you to join.  If you have taken any kind of medication or treatment for asthma in the last 5 years, don't even bother trying, your life is at stake and it is not worth lying about.