Readiness
The ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.
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The ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.
A classification for Service members with a current dental readiness assessment who require non-urgent dental treatment or re-evaluation for oral or dental conditions that are unlikely to result in dental emergencies within 12 months.
Individual Medical Readiness element items that immediately requires an individual Service member’s action and commander’s enforcement.
A measure of an individual Service member’s compliance with established medical readiness elements. This measure of health and fitness is one aspect used to determine medical deployability of individuals and units in support of military operations.
A Service member’s medical, dental, and mental/behavioral health status necessary to perform their assigned missions.
The most prevalent human enzyme deficiency, stemming from an intrinsic metabolic defect of red blood cells. Most people with G6PD deficiency are unaware of their status, living with no anemia, symptoms, or complications. The disorder becomes recognizable when exposure to oxidant drugs, infection, or ingestion of fava beans triggers an episode of acute hem...
A category that describes a Service member without any acute or chronic physical or psychological conditions that may interfere with their ability to perform duties while deployed.
A category that describes a Service member with an acute or chronic medical condition that may interfere with their ability to perform their duties while deployed and who requires additional medical screening or a medical waiver to deploy.
The capacity to perform physical activity, primarily characterized by the health-related components of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, body composition, and flexibility.
The overall capacity to perform the physical duty of military service to include combat, consisting of the components of physical fitness.
Having the nutrients needed to facilitate not only good health and readiness but also resilience against the physical and mental stressors associated with military service. Nutritional fitness contributes to resilience by helping service members maintain a healthy weight, protecting them against diet-related diseases that affect physical and cognitive fun...
This concept integrates health, resilience, and human performance across eight domains: physical fitness, environmental fitness, medical and dental fitness, nutritional fitness, spiritual fitness, psychological fitness, social fitness, and financial fitness.
The ability of a skeletal muscle to perform repeated contractions for an extended period of time. It is measured as the number of submaximal contractions performed or submaximal sustained contraction time. Common muscular tests (e.g., push-ups and sit-ups) are measures of muscular endurance.
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Damage caused by the transfer of an external mechanical, chemical, electrical, or radiological energy to the body. Most injuries are from mechanical energy transfer that results from either an abrupt high intensity force (acute traumatic injury) or a repetitive lower intensity force (cumulative microtraumatic injury, often referred to as an overuse injury...
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