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Recruit Assessment Program

The Recruit Assessment Program seeks to collect baseline health data on all military members, which is recognized as essential for understanding health risks prior to entrance in the military, understanding how service-related exposures affect health, and developing early intervention and prevention programs to protect health and readiness. Currently, no such system is in place at many recruit training sites. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of routinely obtaining computerized baseline health data from the thousands of recruits that enter such facilities each year.