Anabel

Depending upon his career field, yes he can. Especially with the Army, if you aren’t deployable then you are just taking up space. It would be different if he were near the end of his career… they sometimes will let them just finish out the last year or two and let them retire. But at 5 years…. sorry, but they’ll start the paperwork for a medical discharge.

ETA: If he has a permanent profile and is no longer deployable, he’s going to be out, regardless. There is a reason that they don’t take anyone with asthma. And they are not going to keep someone with active asthma. The best case.. as Mrs. JVB said… they won’t allow him to re-up. There’s a big difference between being diagnosed with a chronic cough or bronchitis, and being offically diagnosed with asthma. The docs are hesitant to do it unless absolutely positive and it’s causing issues.

Brice

Disregard that other answer. YOU CAN STAY IN THE ARMY WITH ASTHMA AND YOU CAN NOT BE KICKED OUT BECUASE OF IT. If for some reason it is EXTREMELY bad then its possible, but not likely.

Keon

what will most likely happen is that he will NOT be permitted to re enlist but will finsih out his current contract.

If you are not World wide deployable you are no good to the military.

Marianna

He needs to do some serious research. He should talk to his Primary Care doctor about the worst and best possible case scenarios.

I developed something like asthma after two deployments too. Could barely pass a PT test by the time I got out. The VA has neither confirmed nor ruled out that it is asthma. VA won’t give me a rating for it, because it does not negatively impact my ability to work.

Asthma-like conditions, chronic cough and lung irritation are pretty common, actually, among troops who served or are serving there. They hand out Advair like candy at the dispensary (but then again they hand out opiates like candy over there, too, LOL.)

But I ETSed, so I dont’ know what would have happened if I had tried to stay in.