Since there are a bunch of military type folks on here, and it never hurts to ask, I figured I'd post this.
First some background.
In between my junior and senior (Class of 2000) years of high school I sent in my application to the Naval Academy. I got my nomination, and all that stuff, and felt I had an excellent chance (my high school was rated #8 in the US that year) of getting in. I also had to apply for an eye waiver, since my eye sight is rather poor (completly correctable though, I'm told I'm good for eye surgery in two years or so). So, April rolls around and I get a rejection letter from Navy. I put a fist into my cabinet (It was a boarding school, so I didn't feel that bad about breaking something), and then picked up the phone and called my Admissions counciler to ask him what I can do. He looked up my folder and said that I needed to join some more clubs, do some volunteer work, and keep my grades up. He also said (and this is important) that my eye waiver had been rejected [i]because[/i] I had been rejected overall. He told me to reapply.
My freshman year at the Rochester Institute of Technology I go through it all again. This time instead of double checking everything, I triple check it. This time (and this is also important) the Navy thinks enough of me to invite my to Annapolis for the weekend. I go, and love the place.
April rolls around and I get told that I was rejected because my eye sight is over the limit they allow. Oh yeah, and by the way, I can never serve in the military. This is of course after I go and tour the goddamn place.
So I spend the time from then till a couple months ago writing letters to various folks, calling people, pulling up regulations, combing through press releases etc.
I end up discovering that [i]if[/i] I was in the military, they would pay for my eye surgery, and I see on CNN some Air Force RIO with vision worse than mine getting PRK done (All the medical regs are the same for all branches).
Basically I can't think of anything else I can do, and thought I'd ask you folks if anybody could think of anything else I could try.