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The standards listed here are in addition to the normal accession medical standards. Some of the standards have been repeated here for special emphasis.

Causes for Rejection are:

(1) The minimum visual acuity for unrestricted line officers (URL), quartermasters (QM), quartermaster strikers, and contact coordinators is any level of uncorrected visual acuity as long as it meets general entrance standards (see section Ill) and at least one eye is correctable to 20/20. Additionally, it more than 3 diopters of sphere or 1 diopter of cylinder is present in the refraction, the individual must wear contact lenses and demonstrate, with the lenses in place, an ability to achieve 20,25 vision in at least one eye or be able to achieve 20/25 with a spherical correction of 3 diopters or less.

(2) Defective color vision except for supply corps officer, medical corps officer, storekeeper (SK), yeoman (YN), messmanagement specialist (MS), hospital corpsman (HM), and personnelman (PN) ratings. Testing will be conducted with the Farnsworth Lantern (FALAN1'). Waiver will be considered for submarine qualified personnel who can demonstrate a functional ability to discern color associated with their work environment; such requests must include the results of the FALANT test and a statement from the individual's supervisor attending to his or her ability to meet the color vision requirements of the position.

Derived from NAVMED P-117, Manual of the (Navy) Medical Department, Chapter 15, Medical Examinations