The sites across the country where military recruits take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test are open again. They had been briefly closed because of sweeping DOGE cuts, as Task & Purpose reported.

DOGE leaders had deemed that military officials’ travel to the sites was “non-essential,” leaving no one to administer the tests. The government reversed course when it was clear the impact it could have on recruitment.

“Civilian travel in support of [United States Military Entrance Processing Command] operations, to include testing administrators traveling to administer tests at high schools and Military Entrance Testing Sites, has resumed,” Marshall Smith, a spokesperson for USMEPCOM, said in a statement.

Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Lucibello