Questions candidates actually ask

Not from us. Your raw file never reaches us. We don't send anything to any military service, MEPS, recruiter or medical record system, and we hand over genetic data only when a court order or search warrant requires it. What you do with your readout is up to you: if you give it to a medical officer, it becomes part of what they keep. We can't tell you how to answer an official form.

Yes. In a memo dated December 20, 2019, the Department of Defense advised service members not to use direct-to-consumer genetic tests, citing risks to personal and genetic information and to the force. We don't sell kits, and your raw file never leaves your device. If you already have a file, the company that tested you already holds your results, and running our check doesn't change that. If you don't, buying a kit creates that record. That decision is yours.

Not where the military is concerned. The employment protections in the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act don't apply to the U.S. military, which may use genetic information in employment decisions. GINA also doesn't cover life, disability or long-term care insurance. It's one reason the file stays on your device and the readout leaves out disease and mental health.

23andMe filed for Chapter 11 in March 2025. With court approval, TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki, completed its purchase of the business, including customer data, in July 2025. If you downloaded your raw file, our check reads it on your device and sends nothing. If you want your data gone from 23andMe, delete it in your 23andMe account. Nothing we do changes what they hold.

No. Nobody can. It shows where published evidence ties your genotypes to the stressors in your pipeline, so you know where to look while you train.

No. Independent. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Defense, USSOCOM or any military service. We cite published studies on the specification page. Citing a study doesn't mean its authors or their institutions work with us or endorse us.

BUD/S, SFAS, RASP 1, MARSOC A&S, and PJ / CRO / CCT entry. 160th SOAR Green Platoon is in the pipelines guide but isn't mapped in the readout in rev. 1.0. For PJ, CRO and CCT, the readout follows the enlisted track; officer candidates skip the candidate course and go to Assessment and Selection after a screening.

Two reasons. The readout maps your genotypes to the weeks of your pipeline, and we sell one only when there's time to use it: at least 6 weeks and no more than 24 months before your date. We never ask for orders, unit, Social Security number, service number or medical records.

No. You need to be 18 or older, and a parent can't buy one for you. We don't knowingly sell to anyone under 18 or hold their genetic data.

Raw data files from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and Living DNA (.txt, .csv, .zip or .gz), and whole-genome VCF files whose ID column carries rsIDs. A 23andMe v5 file is documented to carry 22 of the 24 positions, and an AncestryDNA v2 file 21 to 23. We haven't confirmed the other providers against real files yet. The pre-flight check tells you before you pay.

Order a 23andMe or AncestryDNA kit, then come back with your raw file in 4–6 weeks. We don't sell kits and aren't paid for sending you there. Testing creates a genetic record held by that company under its own terms, so read the DoD and GINA answers first.

In your provider's account settings, look for an option to download your raw DNA data. It usually arrives as a .zip, sometimes through a link sent by email. It's easiest on a computer. Download the raw data file, not an ancestry or health report.

The pre-flight check runs inside your browser tab, in a background process, and looks only for the 24 positions on our list. Turn off your Wi-Fi and run it again: it still works. Or open your browser's developer tools and watch the network panel while it runs. The readout panel shows the bytes sent from your device: 0.

Your provider's chip doesn't test that position. 23andMe v5, for example, doesn't test GDF5 rs143383 or NR3C1 rs41423247. Your readout lists those positions and says nothing about them.

The position is in your file, but the chip couldn't read it (it shows as -- or 00), or the letters don't match the position. It counts as missing.

A SHA-256 hash of your original file, shown as sha256: and the first characters. It lets you and us confirm which file a readout was built from. It can't be turned back into your file, but anyone with an identical copy of your file could compute the same one.

After you pay, and only when you press Send: your two-letter genotype at each of our positions your file carries (up to 24), your provider's name and your file's fingerprint. About 1 KB. You see the exact message first. Our server rejects anything else.

The page doesn't keep your file or the genotypes it finds, not even in your browser's storage. After you pay, it reads the file again to prepare the message you'll send.

For each position your file carries: your genotype as the file reports it, the weeks of your pipeline where it matters, an evidence grade with its sources, what to train for or discuss with your physician, and what we won't claim from it. The specimen is a complete example.

Mostly modest, and we say so. Of the 24 positions, none is grade A, 8 are grade B and 16 are grade C. Every reading cites its sources with DOIs. Grades are defined on the specification page.

Usually under a minute after you press Send. It's built by fixed rules the moment your genotypes arrive.

No AI model reads your genotypes. The readout is assembled by fixed rules from the published marker table, and nobody edits an individual readout. Warfighter Genetics signs every one: "Signed: Warfighter Genetics · Method rev. 1.0".

No to all three. Educational information, not medical advice. Talk to your physician before acting on any result. We aren't a laboratory or a healthcare provider, we don't test samples, and the readout hasn't been reviewed or cleared by the FDA. Consumer DNA files can contain errors; confirm anything that matters to a health decision with a clinical test your physician orders.

No. It gives no doses and never tells you to start or stop a supplement or medication. Where a reading touches vitamin D or iron, it suggests considering a blood test and discussing it with your physician.

Every change goes in the changelog. Your readout keeps the revision it was built with, printed on every page. A new readout under a later revision isn't part of this purchase.

Yes. It's yours. Print it, or save it as a PDF from your browser's print dialog, and share it with whoever you choose.

$149, one time. Same price for everyone. No sales, no codes. Nothing recurring.

The file is the input. You're paying for the method: 24 positions chosen and graded against 43 sources, mapped to the weeks of your pipeline, with what we won't claim printed beside what we do. The specimen shows exactly what that buys before you spend anything.

The pre-flight check shows your count before you pay, and we won't sell a readout to a file with fewer than 19 of the 24. If the file you choose after paying comes up short and you have no other file, email us and we refund the full $149; you don't send anything. If the genotypes you send still cover fewer than 19, we build nothing, keep none of your genotypes and refund the full $149 without being asked.

Before you send your genotypes, yes: cancel within 14 days of purchase for a full refund. Once your readout is built, we refund only for our errors (a readout that doesn't match what you sent, a misread file, or a readout that doesn't follow the method it names) and for billing errors. Email support@warfightergenetics.com from the address on your account. Full rules: terms, section 6.

Within 6 weeks, there isn't time for anything in a readout to change what you do. Sleep, eat, taper, show up. We won't sell you something you can't use.

Come back within 24 months of your date. Your genes won't change. The method will improve.

Yes, for another adult who agrees. The readout is bought on the candidate's own account, and the candidate runs their own file and presses Send.

No. Their readout is sealed to them. You get a receipt. We won't show it to you, send it to you or discuss it with you, and we won't tell you whether they've sent their genotypes yet.

The candidate, under the refund rules above. A sponsor can ask us about a billing error on their card. Either way, refunds go back to the card that paid.

Your account details, payment status and intake answers, and, once you press Send, your genotypes, provider name, file fingerprint and readout. All of it until you delete it. Details: privacy policy, section 4.

In your account, choose Delete readout. It deletes the readout and the genotypes, provider name and fingerprint behind it, and shows a receipt with the readout ID and the time in UTC. It's permanent. Deleted data leaves our encrypted backups within 7 days. After a deletion you can send your genotypes once more at no charge and we build the readout again; after that, a new readout is a new purchase.

Email support@warfightergenetics.com from the address on your account. We delete it within 30 days and confirm by email. We keep only the record of the sale that tax law requires and a record that the deletion happened. Neither holds any genetic data.

You, when you're logged in. We don't open an individual readout unless you ask us to, to fix a fault that affects it, or under a court order or warrant. A sponsor can't see it. Stripe never receives your genotypes.

We don't sell personal data. We don't use your genotypes for research, marketing or training any model. Our hosting and database providers carry and store them for us, and nobody else gets them unless a court order or search warrant forces it. The site has no analytics and no advertising trackers.

Your genotypes and readout don't transfer to a buyer unless you agree, and if we close, we delete them after giving you 30 days' notice to save your readout. We will not sell genetic data as a business asset, in a bankruptcy or otherwise.

Whether you'll be selected, finish or get hurt. Personality, including any "warrior gene" read. Intelligence. Mental health, including PTSD risk. Alzheimer's, APOE or any disease risk. Night vision, navigation aptitude or motion sickness. Supplement doses. A score. Your ancestry.

Because the evidence doesn't support them, or because a consumer readout has no business reporting them, and often both. The changelog lists what the earlier version of this site claimed and why each claim went.

Only what specific positions were linked to in specific studies, such as Achilles tendon problems, stress fractures or bone density, each graded, with what we won't claim beside it. It diagnoses nothing, and no position is read for disc or back injury.