Categories of fitness for military service.

Currently, certain categories of fitness for military service are used in the Russian Federation to determine the ability of a citizen to undergo military service.

The primary medical examination and examination is carried out at the age of seventeen when citizens are registered for military registration. After that, a commission is made to assess the state of health of a citizen and determine whether they are eligible for compulsory military service.

It is worth noting that the category of validity will be definitively determined only when reaching the draft age (eighteen years).

Commission of doctors conducts a full medical examination of the draftee. If there are suspicions of any diseases, directions for additional diagnostic manipulations (if this is necessary) are given to clarify the diagnosis, as well as to determine the validity. As a result of the procedures performed, final diagnoses are made (in the presence of pathological conditions). When the commission passes, on the basis of the received results on the state of health of the recruit, its category of fitness is determined (the citizen's ability to carry military service).

What are the categories of fitness for military service?

There are five main ones:

Category "A" indicates the absolute health of the recruit and his suitability for service in the army. In this case, no diseases and pathological conditions prevent the citizen from passing through the service.

The category "B" is exposed in the event that a person has some health problems, which, however, do not create obstacles for his service in the ranks of the Russian army. For this category of fitness for military service, conscripts with gastritis and peptic ulcer (mild), as well as with myopia and other diseases can be referred to. The list of criteria defined and approved by normative documents characterizes one or another category.

Category "B" refers to some restrictions to the passage of service. The service on conscription is possible only at desire of the recruit, otherwise he is released from it and automatically enlisted in the reserve. Previously, this category provided for periodic (every three years) repeated examinations of the state of health of a citizen, and in the event that the category was withdrawn (in case of curing or alleviating the course of the disease), the citizen returned to the ranks of conscripts, however, at the present time, RF Government Decree No. 123 abolished Repeated surveys (surveys), as a result of which, when classifying a draftee as "B", he is considered unfit and is credited to the reserve.

The presence of certain diseases and the assigned category "B" allows getting exemption from the draft.

The category "G" indicates the status of the draftee, in which he is temporarily unfit for service. This includes people with acute transient health problems, such as bone fractures, dystrophy or obesity. Such diseases are not persistent, so when recuperated, the draftee automatically becomes fit for military service.

The last category "D" indicates the presence of severe severe or chronic pathologies in the citizenry, in which military service is not possible (for example, chronic cardiac or renal failure, heart attacks or strokes in the anamnesis and other diseases). As a result, when classifying a citizen as "D", he is considered unfit for military service.

As a result, it is worth noting that the categories of fitness for military service are indicative for determining the ability of citizens to undergo the same in the army.