Refused entry to rifleman unit. Colour Perception test

[camaro383]

As the title describes I was rated CPIII (whatever that means?) and told I was red-green color blind. I was applying for the reserve commando unit or rifleman unit, and since I am rated CPIII there are basically 10 crappy jobs I can do, seriously the only one I would consider is cook. I aced the aptitude & psych tests no problem, and I am very fit. Red-green color blind for me, I can tell red from green no problems, just specific shades of green look different to me.
Is this colour perception rule an old antiquated thing that has never been reviewed or is there a half decent technical reason not to let me serve my country to my full ability?

 

[mickk]

Explaining colour blindness is a hard thing to do.

You see RGY traffic lights like the rest of us. You grow up seeing what you see, RGY. However you see it a bit differently than the rest of us. Your red might be purple and your purple might be red, but you cant tell as youve never seen things any differently.

Say you might be out somewhere and they are using red and purple lights for example. When theres nothing to compare them to or fixed positions like traffic lights, theres no "visual history" to help you.

So everyone might be told to shoot at the red and not at the purple. You might end up shooting at the wrong light/place/time.

You might be looking at a computer screen and be looking for a red dot, you see what you think is red, but everyone else is seeing purple.

You can go your whole life and not know you are colour blind and get along fine. its only in those tests that its discovered. In ordinary life its no problem.

Youre told what you see is called "X" so you call it "X" Its only when you are comparing what you see to what other people see that you realise youre different. When two similar colours come into play and you have to make decisions based on the colours, you can get into all sorts of strife.

It really comes into play when say a electrician or cabler has a bundle of wires, dozens of slightly different shades of colours. If hes colour blind, he matches them up differently to everyone else and the result is chaos.

Like I said, its really hard to explain.

 

[Waylander]

And lets not forget that night vision, thermal imagers, computer screens, ordinary maps, etc. may cause a problem.

Especially green could be a problem there.

 

[camaro383]

I'm going to make the assumption that neither of you are red-green colour "blind."
OK you say I see colors differently? So what? I can still see all the colors and distinguish them from one another.
Also wtf computer screens? I have a degree in computer science. It has been proven now that red green colour blindness does not affect your ability to read heads up displays, pilots with this genetic disorder are allowed to fly anything just like everyone else (in civil aviation).