My boyfriend wants to join the army and he has a heart murmmer. He is 22 and has a person coming over to talk about enlisting Friday I hope and pray that his heart murmmer won't let him join because I don't want him to go. But I was wondering if anybody knows if he will be able to or not...

I have a heart murmer and I live an ordinary life. Nothing stops me as far as I'm concerned.

It all depends on how serious the murmur is and where in the heart it is located.

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Originally Posted by J_9

It all depends on how serious the murmur is and where in the heart it is located.

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To answer both of you its not serious to him he does normal stuff everyday phisical and I don't know were it is all I know is he always says yhea I have and extra hole in my heart. Because he jokes around but it never has bothered him before. I don't know I thought military had strick rules about that stuff.

Yes the murmur will prevent him from entering the military unless he does not list it as a medical condition. This year alone my unit has already had 2 people honorably booted due to heart murmur. It does not matter the severity of the condition.