Book Description

Army Regulation AR 40-502 Medical Services: Medical Readiness June 2019 is a brand-new Department of the Army regulation, dated 27 June 2019. It authorizes commander deployment status decisions for specific Medical Readiness Classification and deployment-limiting codes; incorporates Army Directive 2018-11, Update to Redesign of Personnel Readiness and Medical Deployability; incorporates Army Directive 2019-07, Army Dental Readiness and Deployability; updates individual medical readiness classification; describes that temporary profiles no longer have assigned physical capacity or stamina, upper extremities, lower extremities, hearing and ears, eyes, psychiatric designation; and redesigns and prescribes the DA Form 3349 (Physical Profile Record) as a single source incorporating all duty limiting conditions and current functional limitations for providers, commanders, and trained staff. Unit commanders will review profiles on Soldiers under their command and make a determination for deployability for all duty limiting conditions not identified by policy. This regulation requires a physician review and second signature for all permanent profile with a serial of "2. It implements DODI 6025.19 and DODI 6490.07; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs memorandum, Subject: Individual Medical Readiness Measure Goal, dated July 15, 2015; and supplements the information provided in AR 220-1 (throughout). It implements the Commander Portal and clarifies required actions to support Soldier health and welfare, duty assignment, and medical readiness reporting (throughout). It incorporates Army Directive 2016-07, Redesign of Personnel Readiness and Medical Deployability.