MEPS is where your official Navy Reserve career begins. Here, you’ll take an aptitude test and physical examination, select a Navy Reserve career, and recite the Navy Oath of Enlistment.

There are 65 MEPS facilities located throughout the United States. Your Navy Reserve Recruiter will direct you to the one nearest you.

MEPS: Prescreening with Your Recruiter
Before arriving at MEPS, your Recruiter will fill out a basic medical prescreening report and forward it to the medical personnel at MEPS for them to review. After they review it, they will give your Recruiter the go-ahead to schedule your first visit to MEPS.

MEPS: ASVAB
If you have not already done so, you will take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) to determine, among other things, which careers you qualify for based on your aptitude to be trained for those careers. There are commercially produced ASVAB information/study guides available.

MEPS: Documentation
Be sure to bring your Social Security card; driver’s license; and Direct Deposit Form 1199 signed by a bank official, or the name, address, and routing number of your financial institution along with your account number. If applicable, notarized copies of your marriage certificate, divorce decree or separation order; notarized copies of birth certificates for your children under 18 years of age; affidavit of support for parents; court documents, and direct deposit forms if ordered to pay spousal and/or child support; proof of citizenship (aliens only); the name, social security number, and military address of your spouse, if you are married to another service member in the Navy or any other military component; copies of your lease agreement or rental contract for any dependents residing outside of government quarters; documentation of any ROTC experience, and college transcripts.

Your Orders
Be sure to keep all copies of orders and documents issued to you by your unit Recruiter and/or MEPS.

MEPS: Medical History and Physical Exam
Your MEPS physical will begin with the Report of Medical History: questions you’ll answer about your current or past medical conditions (if any). The next step is undergoing lab work (basic blood and urinalysis testing) and hearing and vision exams. you’ll have your height and weight recorded and perform simple flexibility tests. In the final phase, you’ll talk to a doctor about your medical history.

MEPS: Selecting Your Reserve Career
After you’ve completed your medical evaluation, you’ll be sent to your Career Classifier to select a Navy Reserve career. If you’re not sure what you want to do, take some time now, before seeing a Recruiter or going to MEPS, to visit the Opportunities section of this site.

MEPS: The Pre-Enlistment Interview
You’re almost done. The next-to-last step at MEPS is the Pre-Enlistment Interview. Here, you will be asked questions about your background. If any additional testing is required for your career, this is when it will be performed.

MEPS: Oath of Enlistment
After you are done with your interview, you and your Navy Reserve Counselor will review and sign your enlistment contract before you take the Oath of Enlistment.

OATH OF ENLISTMENT
I,___________________________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me, God.

The next official step is Recruit Training.