I've been down with the USAP a couple times, most recently about a decade ago, and in that span the psych eval was required for winterover deployments but not s

I've been down with the USAP a couple times, most recently about a decade ago, and in that span the psych eval was required for winterover deployments but not summers. It was very questionable. I like to think that a spoof "How to Pass the Psych Eval" video we made one winter might've somehow contributed to that particular system being torn down a few years later, though I don't have firsthand experience with the system that replaced it. My understanding is that the new one involves more "team building" type stuff before deployment, which sounds like a step in the right direction. One issue is that by the time a person has gotten to that late stage in the hiring process, they are often deeply invested in deploying - having packed things in to storage, quit "real world" job, etc. and their nominal manager understands that. Another issue is that people behave differently in different environments, and Antarctica is quite unlike Denver.