During undergrad I applied to my school’s ROTC program with intentions of being a USAF pilot. The health physical is two parts: an online questionnaire and then an in-person physical. And this stuff goes super in-depth. How many scars do you have? What are your scars from? Any tattoos, any history of X, Y, or Z? Literally the last question on the questionnaire was a question about stuttering. I don’t remember the exact phrasing but it asked very directly. Not wanting to lie, I said yes. So, I get to the in-person and it goes OK. Until the doc doing it pulls out [the Grandfather passage](https://www.amyspeechlanguagetherapy.com/uploads/7/5/7/4/7574967/grandfatherpassage.pdf) and has me read it. Needless to say it didn’t go super well. Not horrible, but poorly enough that he DQ’d me from the program. I’m still a liiitle bit salty about it. But I guess it worked out. I wouldn’t be where I am today had that gone through. Granted I’d be a USAF pilot and that’s still probably cooler. Oh well. And now I’m worried that I won’t be able to get my private license for the same reason. But the FAA doesn’t consider stuttering a complete deal breaker. AFAIK, as long as you have someone vouching for you — a physician, SLP, etc.— then they’ll still pass you. And I think my “radio voice,” as I call it, will be good enough to let me fly.