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COMDTINST 6150.3A
13 FEBRUARY 2018
COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION 6150.3A
Subj: COAST GUARD PERIODIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT (PHA)
Ref: (a) Coast Guard Medical Manual, COMDTINST M6000.1 (series)
(b) Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) Program, Department of Defense
Instruction, DoDI 6200.06
(c) Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) Program, Defense Health Agency
Procedural Instruction 6200.06
(d) Privacy Act of 1974; United States Coast Guard -011 Military
Personnel Health Records System of Records
(e) Information and Life Cycle Management Manual, COMDTINST
M5212.1 (series)
(f) Individual Medical Readiness (IMR), DoDI 6025.19
(g) Mental Health Assessments for Service Members Deployed in
Connection with a Contingency Operation, DoDI 6490.12
(h) Disability Evaluations System (DES), DoDI 1332.18
(i) Deployment-Limiting Medical Conditions for Service Members and
DoD Civilian Employees, DoDI 6490.07
(j) The Separation History and Physical Examination (SHPE) for the DoD
Separation Health Assessment (SHA) Program, DoDI 6040.46
(k) Coast Guard Aviation Medicine Manual, COMDTINST M6410.3 (series)
1. PURPOSE. This Instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides
guidelines to ensure that surveillance of the health and Individual Medical Readiness (IMR)
of Coast Guard (CG) Active Duty (AD) and Reserve members, hereafter referred to as “CG
members”, is completed as directed by Reference (a). For the purposes of this instruction,
Reserve members include Selected Reserve (SELRES) members, members of the
Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) who are drilling for points only, senior Reserve officers
assigned to an Individual Augmentation Duty (IAD) position, and Standby Reserve
members on the Active and Inactive Status Lists who are drilling for points only.
Additionally, this policy continues the annual Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) as the
