Sec. 5509. Sense of Congress on local performance of military accession physicals
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Congress makes the following findings: The United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) consists of 65 Military Entrance Processing Stations
(MEPS)dispersed throughout the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Applicants who must travel to the closest Processing Station are often driven by their military recruiter and receive free lodging at a nearby hotel paid by the Armed Force concerned. In fiscal year 2015, the United States Military Entrance Processing Command processed 473,000 applicants at its Processing Stations, with an aggregate total of 931,000 applicant visits to such Processing Stations in that fiscal year. It is the sense of Congress that— permitting military accession physicals in local communities would allow recruiters to focus on their core recruiting mission; and the conduct of military accession physicals in local communities would permit the United States Military Entrance Processing Command to reduce costly and inefficient return visits by applicants to Military Entrance Processing Stations and increase efficiency in its processing times.