Results for assessment

Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet

The standard worksheet for deliberate risk management: identify hazards, assess initial risk, apply controls, and record the residual risk the approving authority accepts.

What are the risk levels used in a risk assessment?

Extremely high, high, moderate, and low. The level determines who has the authority to accept the residual risk, which is why the assessment goes to the right approval level before execution.

Holistic Health and Fitness Testing

ATP 7-22.01 carries the administration and evaluation procedures for the Army's fitness tests, including the Army Fitness Test, the Occupational Physical Assessment Test, and the Combat Water Survival Test. The March 2026 edition replaced the October 2020 version. Use it for test administration questions; FM 7-22 remains the training system.

Risk Management

DA PAM 385-30 is the procedural companion to AR 385-10 for risk management. It walks through applying the risk management steps to missions and everyday tasks and how to document the result. Use it with ATP 5-19, which carries the doctrinal techniques.

Risk Management

ATP 5-19 is the Army's risk management techniques publication. It carries the five-step process leaders use to identify hazards, apply controls, and make an informed risk decision. The November 2021 edition supersedes the April 2014 version and is the reference behind every deliberate risk assessment worksheet.

The Army Body Composition Program

AR 600-9 establishes the Army Body Composition Program: screening weight, body fat assessment, enrollment, and the consequences of failing to make progress. The regulation itself dates from July 2019, but the assessment method and body fat standards have been changed by Army directives since then. Use the current directives with the regulation.

The Operations Process

ADP 5-0 is the doctrine for how units plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations, and what commanders and staffs each owe that process. It is short, and almost every staff argument you will have traces back to it. FM 5-0 carries the detailed procedures.

Composite Risk Management Worksheet

Rescinded. Units replaced it with DD Form 2977 for deliberate risk assessment; it is listed here only so readers who find an old reference know what replaced it.

Developmental Counseling Form

Documents event, performance, and professional growth counseling, including the plan of action the leader and Soldier agree to and the follow-up assessment.

Medical readiness classification and MEDPROS

The four medical readiness classes, the elements of individual medical readiness that drive them, and what a leader can actually fix.

Risk management and the DD Form 2977

The five steps of risk management, the risk levels that decide who approves an event, and the current worksheet.

Running estimates and the staff's continuous work

A running estimate is a staff section's continuously updated assessment of its area. It is what makes a staff recommendation useful at two in the morning instead of two days later.

The Army Body Composition Program and the screening process

How screening table weight works, when a body fat assessment is required, the maximum allowable body fat by age and sex, and why the assessment method is not what the 2019 regulation says.

The NCO evaluation system and the rating chain

AR 623-3 governs the evaluation reporting system. The DA 2166-9 series carries the NCOER, the support form drives the counseling behind it, and the rating chain fixes who is accountable for the assessment.

The operations process

Plan, prepare, execute, and assess. Four activities that overlap continuously, plus the six things a commander personally does throughout all of them.

Writing a DA 4856 that survives scrutiny

The counseling form is only as strong as the facts in it. A useful DA 4856 states what happened, cites the standard, and sets a plan of action a third party could measure.

PHA

Periodic Health Assessment

Is composite risk management still the correct term, and what worksheet is used today?

No. The Army dropped composite risk management and returned to risk management with the publication of ATP 5-19. The deliberate risk assessment worksheet is DD Form 2977. DA Form 7566, the old composite risk management worksheet, is obsolete.

Walk me through the screening process under the Army Body Composition Program.

The Soldier is weighed and measured for height and compared against the screening table weight for their height, age, and sex. A Soldier at or under the screening weight passes and no further assessment is required. A Soldier over the screening weight receives a body fat assessment. If the body fat result exceeds the standard for their age and sex, the Soldier is enrolled in the program and flagged.

What are your priorities during care under fire?

Return fire and gain fire superiority, keep yourself from becoming a casualty, and get the casualty to cover if it can be done safely. The only medical treatment expected is stopping life-threatening extremity bleeding with a tourniquet. Airway management and detailed assessment wait until tactical field care.

What is a METL and what is a T and EO?

A METL is a mission-essential task list, the tasks a unit must be able to perform to accomplish what it was designed to do. A training and evaluation outline, or T and EO, is the standard for a specific task: the conditions, the standard, and the performance measures a leader uses to evaluate it. The T and EO is the starting point for any honest proficiency assessment.

What is a SALUTE report?

The standard format for reporting information about the enemy. Size, activity, location, unit or uniform, time, and equipment. Report it accurately and fast, and keep facts separate from your assessment.

What is the Army Body Composition Program and what regulation governs it?

The Army Body Composition Program, or ABCP, is the program that ensures Soldiers maintain the military appearance and body composition the Army requires and are able to meet the physical demands of duty. AR 600-9 governs it. The regulation is dated July 2019, and the assessment method has been changed by Army directive since then, so use the current directive with the regulation.