Recruit assessment program: Implementation at marine corps recruit depot, san diego

The collection of baseline health data in military personnel is important for force health protection, and crucial to the evaluation of health-related issues facing the military, The Recruit Assessment Program is a proposed Department of Defense initiative designed to collect baseline data from all new accessions. It has been successfully implemented at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, under the direction of the Department of Defense Center for Deployment Health Research at the Naval Health Research Center, and in cooperation with the Marine Corps training community. Implementation has demonstrated the benefit of the Recruit Assessment Program as an instrument for collecting baseline health data, and it has established the feasibility of its use in military training environments.