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Can you bring birth control to basic training?
Eyeglass or contact lens prescription. Letter from doctor listing all required prescription drugs, including birth control pills. Lease agreement or rental contract. Any other legal document that may affect your pay.
Can you have an IUD during basic training?
At Army boot camp, female recruits receive education on all types of birth control and have access to contraception at sick call. They also can receive the most effective types of birth control, known as long-acting reversible contraception such as intrauterine devices or implants, on referral.
Are you allowed to be on birth control in the military?
Active-duty servicemembers can get their birth control method without copays. If you are an active-duty member of the U.S. military, here’s some great news: you have access to a wide range of birth control methods covered under your TRICARE plan.
Can you go to MEPS with your period?
Yes, but just be aware they suggest you not too because you will have to give urine and they look at your vagina at the end of the physical. So if you’re actually dying to go you can, but they’ll (your recruiter) will suggest not too.
What is an IUD military?
In 2007, when American troops were losing limbs from blasts about every other day on average, the word IED — a military acronym for “improvised explosive device” — was so widely used it formally entered the American lexicon, accepted into Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
Can you have an IUD in the military?
Other long-term options, Long-Acting Reversible Contaception (LARC) include Nexplanon and intrauterine devices (IUD) such as Skyla and Mirena, are other excellent options for military women. Nexplanon is a single implantable rod that is placed in the non-dominant upper arm that lasts for three years.
Does TRICARE cover implant as birth control?
Tricare is health insurance for members of the military and their families. Tricare covers almost all doctor-provided birth control methods, including the most effective ones like the implant and IUDs, at no cost to you.