"Doug Kanter" wrote in message news:RUuNb.935

......so Air Force recruiters here (Rochester) told him he couldn't
join. He ended up having his congressman investigate, and found there was
no
such exclusion for the job the kid was hoping for.

So what you had was a couple of recruiters who didn't know their stuff in
detail, which was an unfortunate occurrence for your friend's nephew. Your
earlier post made it sound as if such things were established general policy
among all the military services. That's not at all the same thing.