Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards (2006) / Chapter Skim
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faces short-term and long term challenges in selecting and recruiting an enlisted force to meet personnel requirements associated with diverse and changing missions. The DoD has established standards for aptitudes/abilities, medical conditions, and physical fitness to be used in selecting recruits who are most likely to succeed in their jobs and complete the first term of service (generally 36 months)
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CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE The objective of the current project is to critically examine the current physical, medical, and mental health standards for military enlistment in light of (1) trends in the physical condition of the youth population; (2)
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The workshop should provide a forum for discussions on methodological and substantive issues among committee members, DoD officials, and other experts. The committee assembled to accomplish the charge is composed of experts in the areas of psychology, military personnel policy, military occupational analysis, military and occupational medicine, military sociology, obesity, physical fitness, chronic diseases, and mental health.
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the extent to which disqualification for a condition could be waived by one of the Services; (3) the existence of military research regarding the effect of the condition on the first-term enlisted force by the Accessions Medical Standards Analysis and Research Activity (AMSARA)
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Table 1-1 presents the distribution of failure codes assigned in the medical examination and the waivers assigned in those failure codes by the various Services for applicants between May 2003 and April 2005. The top five disqualifiers are all part of the committee's examination: body mass index (BMI)
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a cost-benefit framework for examining the implications of changes in enlistment standards, and (3) reasons for attrition through various stages in the first term of service based on data from the Army Longitudinal Study using the 1999 cohort.
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These failure codes are assigned on the basis of medical examinations at the military entrance processing stations (MEPS)
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In addition, the documented disproportionate burden of risk factors for chronic disease affecting racial and ethnic minority populations may slow or reverse historic positive trends in military service for these groups. Any change in eligibility standards must take into consideration the impact on recruitment of racial and ethnic minority populations.
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Each Service has its own set of tests and testing schedules to measure physical fitness at various points in the first term. Medical and mental health standards for screening are contained in the recently revised DoD Instruction 6130.4 (Appendix A -- |
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Chapter 6 includes mental health concerns. Chapter 7 discusses substance abuse and smoking.
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