Manual of the Medical Department (NAVMED P-117): Chapter 15:
Medical Examinations: Physical Standards
15-38 Other Defects and Disease of the Mouth, Nose, and Throat
Department of the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
(1) The causes for rejection are:
- (a) Aphonia
- (b) Deformities or conditions of the mouth, throat, pharynx,
larynx, esophagus, and nose which interfere with mastication and
swallowing of ordinary food, with speech, or with breathing.
- (c) Destructive syphilitic disease of the mouth, nose, throat,
larynx, a esophagus
- (d) Pharyngitis and nasopharyngitis, chronic, with positive
history and objective evidence, if of such a degree as to result
in excessive time lost in the military environment.