Nope, right now the USAF only allows PRK, however our Army counterparts are allowed LASIK.
Well, it's been almost five days sinc ehte surgery, things are still kinda blurry but they expect it'll clear up in another day or so. So my initial thoughts are...well, I'm not quite sure yet. I had 50 seconds of lasers per eye, higher than average but nowhere near as much as can be done. I was 5.25 diopters and they will go as high as 8.0 diopters. The actual surgery itself wasn't too bad, the worse part was the "scrubbing" of they eye with what amounts to an electric toothbrush (not really but damn close!). It is also how they test to see if the eye is numb, so the first few goes are literally "pokes in the eye". The laser itself is no big deal, just stare at a blurry, flashing red light while the machine makes a clicking noise.
Let me tell you the first night was horrible, felt like a had a pound of sand in my eyes. They gave me some numbing drops to use only if things got really bad, and they did once. I didn't sleep too well that first night but after that the irritation was, well, irritating for the next few days. Four days afterwards I was seeing fairly clear (I would guess about 20/30) and they took the contact lens serving as bandages off, which made things a little worse blurry-wise. A day later and it hasn't improved much. I am also pretty sensitive to sunlight, which the USAF has taken care of by giving me an assignment from sunny San Antonio to a less-sunny Mons, Belgium (SHAPE) reporting in March.
Although I am not that "opti"-mistic <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> about everything at this time I expect it will be better in a few days. Given this free procedure costs $2-3K on the outside I can't complain, but I hope to have eyesight at least as good as it was before the PRK soon. I'll keep you posted.
Cheers!