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To: Republican Wildcat

Don’t disregard “undiagnosed heart condition” so easily. I have a brother-in-law who was a healthy and very active person, passed the entry physical for the USAF and during basic training in Texas he collapsed during a run, and he was quite use to running and a skinny guy. He was taken to the hospital, where they discovered he had a heart problem that just decided to act up. He was medically discharged from the USAF a couple of months later.

I’ve also had experiences with young, physically fit lieutenants in a couple of different units who also died from undiagnosed heart problems. And one of them was a West Point graduate, thus in very good physical condition.


36 posted on 02/22/2019 7:49:38 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, for example.


39 posted on 02/22/2019 9:28:09 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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