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AR 40-501
Standards of Medical Fitness
AR 40-501 sets the medical fitness standards for accession, retention, and separation, and it is the basis for physical profiles. Leaders use it to understand what a profile means and what it does not. Medical providers own the determinations; leaders own the accommodation and the training plan.
Open the official record- Type
- AR
- Edition verified
- June 2019
- Used in
- FitnessStaff & Admin
What to take from it
- Sets medical fitness standards for enlistment, appointment, retention, and separation.
- Provides the basis for the physical profile serial system used on DA Form 3349.
- A profile documents functional limitations; the provider, not the chain of command, sets them.
- The 27 June 2019 edition remains current but has been modified by Army directives -- check the directives listed with it on APD.
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