hey all,
I know that I found it extremely difficult to find out anything in regards to eyesight for special forces so I thought I'd share my new found info with you all. Provided you check up with everything else, you are fine to get in as SAS/Commando/Rifleman with vision correction contact lenses or glasses (within a certain range...) and with a colour perception of 2 (mild colour blindness).

oh thats great news! i have a very mild degree of colour blindness , so im very pleased to hear this!

I don't supose you know what the "certain range" is? (eg 6/9, 612)

Hey i was just wondering how tough are they on colour blindness

Same test as Iam sure you have seen before; Pick out the number in the coloured dots, if you cant see them you wont have much chance.

Yeah i know but I I have the English skills of a small child freaking out becuase my medicals coming round and all the bullsh*t i'm hearing from my mates says that even though i'm just barely classified with a red-green blindness there going to fail my ass.

I don't really know what the policy is on colour blindness, it would have to exclude you from doing certain jobs, depends on what job you were going for mate, they might find something that your able to do with colour blindness.

can anybody tell me if you are allowed into sigs with colour blindess because i'm applying for adfa and just wondering if i fail the test then as a gso i can go to a sigs sqdn and then hopefully apply to 152 here in Perth

Not much point in stressing about it, do the test and see how you go, it's not like you can train for it.

as dig said dont stress, i had a guy in my platoon who was colour blind so yes you can still get in but its just depends on how bad it is that it rules out certain jobs...