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| New Army Fitness Standards. Now.... No Push-Ups, No Sit-Ups |
| 2018-07-11 |
| [Hot Air] Every time the military changes their fitness requirements lately it leads to controversy. This is mostly because so many of the recent changes created at least the suggestion that accommodations were being made for female recruits, or perhaps even males who couldn’t meet the traditional standards. This latest set of changes may sound similar on the surface, but let’s not be too quick to judge. Rather than doing two minutes of push-ups and two minutes of sit-ups, new exercises are being added which supposedly better simulate physical demands encountered on the battlefield. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 my prediction is there will soon be NO physical training (PT) test When the RAGE finally hits, everyone becomes a soldier. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-11 13:31 |
| #3 My older brother, since retired, watched this coming in the US Navy: "So we don't need to see if a single sailor is strong enough to drag a casualty up a ladder and out of a flooding compartment? Two sailors is enough ... right!?! What if that unconscious sailor was Me!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-11 11:11 |
| #2 A long time coming, but my prediction is there will soon be NO physical training (PT) test. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-11 10:12 |
| #1 Minimum of 100 pound ruck carried 12 miles under 4 hours. That's generous. Staff usually keeps adding 'stuff' that it usually is over 130 pounds. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-11 10:09 |