Thanks a lot for your input.
If I do my MRI and have my PES downgraded, and do surgery.
Wouldnt I have to pay all the cost and not the goverment?
All medical examination and treatment is payable by
government, if you are referred by your camp Medical Officer. So
before enlistment, you visit a civilian specialist and he will
refer you for MRI. He will perform a medical report on your
condition (included in the cost of the MRI), plus write a
recommendation for surgery and downgrade. If he does not give
recommendation for downgrade, you can still show the medical report
to CMPB and they will downgrade you.
After you enlist, you inform your MO that you are going
for surgery. He will refer you to the hospital and the govt will
pay.
If i fail my BMT and have to take when new BMT is available, is
that very bad? If i don have to go for BMT for whole length of
service, it means I'll only do paperwork?
No, it is not bad. In theory you must go for the next
available BMT intake. In the mean time, you will be assigned to a
service vocation. You will still be promoted to PTE, LCP and CPL
even if you don't go for BMT. In practice, maybe your unit will
refuse to send you for BMT and recommend you attend the next BMT
instead. Maybe by that time, you only have one year left and it is
not worth sending you to 3 month BMT to serve only 9 months in
another vocation. Then you will never attend BMT and will perform
paper work for whole length of service.
What if I enlist as PES A and do my MRI and surgery when I'm in
NS?
Like I said, you will risk injury to your knee during
training.
Sorry for all the questions. I need to consider all the
options.
Thanks again.