Jay Honeck wrote:

Oh well. With reenlistment supposedly plummeting, maybe they'll have to
allow lasik before my kid comes of age, just to keep enough pilots?

Pilots are not enlisted men. As officers, the rules for dropping out of the
service are somewhat different.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.