Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards (2006) / Chapter Skim
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2 Procedures, Requirements, and Standards
2 Procedures, Requirements, and Standards
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Still, few organizations have annual requirements that even approach these numbers. In addition to the magnitude of these personnel requirements, the military services also confront a complex system of legal and policy constraints that exclude a substantial proportion of potential recruits from enlisting (see Appendix 2-A for an overview of recruiting practices and conditions)
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. The military services' personnel requirements are further complicated by a desire to have the racial and ethnic characteristics of the force reasonably representative of society as well as by legal and policy constraints that prevent the assignment of women to some direct-combat military occupational specialties.
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SOURCE: Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File, October 2001-September 2002, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (2002)
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Marine Air Civilians Gender Army Navy Corps Force DoD Ages 18 to 44 Men 85.4 85.6 93.9 80.1 85.2 54.2 Women 14.6 14.4 6.1 19.9 14.8 45.8 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 SOURCE: Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File, September 2002, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (2002)
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If a recruiter has a concern about a particular medical condition, he or she can call a MEPS medical technician through the Dial-A-Medic Program to ask questions regarding an applicant's medical eligibility. Medical prescreening forms and associated documentation are forwarded to the local MEPS for further processing; this paperwork precedes the applicant's visit to the MEPS.
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an individual examination and medical history specifying past or existing medical conditions taken by a physician (according to the guidance in DoD Instruction 6130.4) and recorded on Form 2807-1, (3)
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Before MEPS Visit · Recruiting DD 2807-2 Medical Prescreen MEPS Check-in · MEPS Dial -A-Medic (Main Desk) · MEPS Review of DD 2807-2 & Medical Treatment Records Medical Control Desk · MEPS Quality Check-in/Medical Briefing Review Process Vision Hearing Laboratory Individual Exam Height/Weight HIV/Drug History/Screening Testing Orthopedic ·Specialty Consults ·Document Reviews Neurology Exam ·Additional Testing ·Administrative QA Review Profile Qualify/Disqualify FIGURE 2-1 Medical evaluation process.
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5. Lack of muscle strength.
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MEPS Physical Prescreen Examination Qualified Disqualified Waiver Eligible Consults Disqualified Waiver No Waiver Basic Training Disqualified for Advanced Medical Conditions Individual Existing Prior to Service Training Basic Training = Basic Combat Training, Basic Military Training, or other service equivalent FIGURE 2-2 Applicant medical outcomes.
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In addition, as noted above, there is no information available about applicants who are turned away at the recruiting station without having been seen at the MEPS. Physical Profile Serial System The military services have developed a medical profile system to relate body systems to military jobs.
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The Marine Corps also has an active program of physical fitness in the DEP, and the Air Force and the Navy provide information designed to encourage those in the DEP to maintain or improve their physical conditioning. Current Physical Fitness Standards and Testing Physical Fitness Standards Technology may be reducing the physical demands of some civilian and military jobs.
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identified Army-wide common tasks for the future force that include numerous physically demanding tasks -- such as react to combat situations, move through the battlefield, employ hand-to-hand techniques, control or evacuate crowds -- that all soldiers will be required to perform. While military service is now and is expected to remain a physically demanding occupation, there is little objective documentation of the level of fitness necessary to perform in most military occupational specialties (MOSs)
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PHYSICAL ABILITY TESTING FOR CIVILIAN JOBS It is useful to compare the civilian workplace with the military work setting in terms of the role and treatment of physical ability. The two differ in at least two dramatic ways.
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34 waist a sec plus Women 31:00 Women 15 Women 50 Arm components Men 28:00 Men 3 Men 50 test Corps run fitness Marine 3-mile Age 17-26 Pull-ups/Flexed Age 17-26 Crunches Age 17-26 physical the Tests Women 15:00 Women 19 Women 50 from scores Fitness of Men 12:30 Men 42 Men 50 run Physical combination Navy 1.5-mile Age 17-19 Push-ups Age 17-19 Curl-ups Age 17-19 (2002)
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The second is that while the military at present adopts a strategy of training to develop physical ability, rather than selecting for physical ability, civilian employers generally use a strategy of selecting for physical ability. Perhaps the prototypic civilian job with high physical demands is that of firefighter; physical ability testing is typically a part of the firefighter selection process (e.g., Biddle and Sill, 1999; Hogan and Quigley, 1994; Truxillo, Donahue, and Sulzer, 1996; Sharkey, 2000)
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Because measures of individual job performance are generally not available in military settings, this civilian research reinforces the importance of attending to physical ability and fitness as a determinant of performance. One example of military research accomplished in this regard is a study of Marine Corps physical fitness testing and the relationship of the tests to performance of rifleman tasks in arduous environments (Davis, Dotson, and Sharkey, 1986)
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AFQT scores, expressed on a percentile scale, reflect an applicant's standing relative to the national population of men and women ages 18 to 3Adapted from the web version of Population Representation in the Military Services, FY2002 ( |
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Over and above these legal restrictions, each Service prescribes its own aptitude and education criteria for eligibility. Each Service uses combinations of ASVAB test scores to determine an applicant's aptitude and eligibility for different military occupations.
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The examination assesses medical fitness for military service. It includes measurement of blood pressure, pulse, visual acuity, and hearing; blood testing and urinalysis; drug and HIV testing; and medical history.
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In the Navy, approximately 77 percent of recruits enlisted for a specific skill, while the rest went directly to the fleet after basic training, 20 percent classified in airman, fireman, or seaman programs and 3 percent entered school 12 to 18 months later. Approximately 97 percent of Marine Corps enlistees entered with a guaranteed occupational area and were assigned a specific skill in that area after recruit training; the rest enlisted with either a specific job guarantee or assignment to a job after recruit training.
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By Service, an average of 13 to 21 percent of individuals in the DEP changed their minds and asked to be released from their enlistment contracts in FY 2002. The Services consider enlistment in the DEP a serious commitment, but they do not require youth to enter military service against their will.
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PRINCIPAL PURPOSE(S) : To obtain medicaldata for determinationof medicalfitness for enlistment, induction, appointmentand retention for applicants and membersof the Armed Forces.
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