scope:

PURPOSE

This Instruction:

Implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures to improve medical readiness through monitoring and reporting on Individual Medical Readiness (IMR), consistent with references (a) through (d). IMR provides operational commanders, Military Department leaders and primary care managers the ability to monitor the medical readiness status of their personnel, ensuring a healthy and fit fighting force medically ready to deploy.

Establishes defined, measurable medical elements for all Services. It tracks key elements of IMR across the Department of Defense, and provides operational commanders and Service headquarters the ability to continuously monitor their military personnel for medical readiness and deployability.

Requires quarterly IMR reports summarizing the IMR status of Active and Selected Reserve members of the Armed Forces, both officers and enlisted members, except those who have not completed initial active duty for training and follow-on technical skills training or others who are unavailable to deploy (e.g., recruiters, Reserve Officer Training Corps cadre, students in deferred status pursuing advanced academic degrees).

APPLICABILITY

This Instruction applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Military Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities and all other organizational entities in the Department of Defense (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components"). The term "Military Services," as used herein, refers to the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps. By agreement with the Secretary of Homeland Security, this Directive will also apply to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service within the Navy.