US Navy Mental Health Scenarios

Introduction The U.S. Navy has a policy concerning individuals that are not able to meet physical fitness standards and medical conditions. Personnel in the Navy must be able to perform specific physical tasks. This is needed to keep an efficient working organization. Medical boards are conducted in the Navy on a daily basis. When members are first diagnosed with a medical condition, the Navy then decides whether or not the condition will hinder an individual of performing his or her duties. Dependent on the designated job a service member has will decide if this person’s condition is life threatening or something that can be dealt with using the proper medication and protocol. After the diagnosis, the service member is then

In my case, the medical officer that signed off on my questionnaire and deemed me able to participate in the physical readiness test did not bother to dig further into my medical condition even after 3 consecutive times with the same results as failures. It is unknown to tell whether or not this was a personal policy of how he handled my situation or if this physician was given this direction from a higher authority. The end result is to keep those that are physically able to perform. The Navy has the right idea in this matter just like all the other branches considering an individual must be able to perform physically if they are onboard a ship and are counted on to keep the ship afloat in the event of a fire or flooding and physical fitness is a requirement but sometimes its goals are a matter of numbers in force strength. This particular environment was high profile considering it was joint staff duty. The design and social structure of Big Navy was service pride. Every branch in the military likes to refer to them selves as the absolute best even though we all come together as a team especially when it counts the most such as protecting our way of life. It can be looked at like competition between

I needed to know ways of how the process was going to benefit me. The entire process was exhausting. When stationed overseas and I had to see a doctor off base. The use of networking used between the base and the foreign medical facility benefited me drastically. The base built a coalition with the outside neighbor. This is good to improve relations between host country and the United States. The foreign medical facility gets the idea they are trusted to handle the health of U.S. service members while the base is able to have facilities more suitable to the patient’s condition otherwise not available without the assistance from a foreign medical facility. The status of my health was also sent to Naval Base Souda Bay, Greece where there was definitely a political agenda considering the physician I was seeing on base had to get permission to determine my status. This command had an obligation to support the personnel of Naval Base Bahrain because it was part of the European and Central Command. There responsibility was to provide support for combat readiness and the security of ships, aircraft, smaller commands and their personnel.