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Posted on 12/24/2017 10:57:30 AM PST by PROCON
Fitness rule changes are one way the Navy plans to keep sailors in uniform. (MCS Christopher Pratt/Navy)
The U.S. Navy will grant “fitness pardons” to nearly 50,000 sailors who have fitness failures on their records, in order to help maintain the level of sailors needed for readiness, the Navy Times reported this week.
“Retention of every capable Sailor is critical to the operational readiness of the Navy,” said Vice Adm. Robert Burke, Chief of Naval Personnel, the Navy Times reported. “The goal of the Navy’s physical readiness program is to maintain a minimum prescribed level of fitness necessary for world-wide deployment and to maintain a sailor’s long-term health and wellness.”
The change is effective immediately.
he Navy-wide message “instructs commands to immediately stop discharging sailors for fitness failures and to cancel any pending discharges for sailors slated to be kicked out after March 31,” the Navy Times reported, and that goes for both enlisted sailors and officers.
In the same message, the Navy announced new rules for the Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA).
One of the new rules is that sailors will no longer be forced to leave the Navy after two failed fitness tests in three years, the Navy Times reported.
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bkmrk
“Navy gives 48,000 sailors ‘fitness pardon’ who can’t meet fitness demands”
Curious if that includes swimming. No I did not read the article.
Interesting how far through the bottom of the barrel is the Military Industrial kleptocracy is tunneling these days...
Bet the Chinese aren’t having that problem.
No participation ribbons?
Come-on, who has time for physical fitness when they were too busy with hours of Diversity training under 0bama?
I think that it’s essential that sailors be able to run two miles in under fifteen minutes so they can run across the ocean and attack the enemy ships.
They should be able to fly, too.
“Social promotion” by another name.
Just one reason why we had multiple ships collide in the Asian sea?
One more confidence builder (not) in our armed forces.
Perhaps it’s just the media doing what it does, but I don’t get the impression we’re at our highest levels of preparedness right now.
Would love to have someone destroy that perception.
And yes,I'm prepared to be slammed by former Sailors,Airmen and others.
We’re still better off than we were in 1939.
Whew. Feeling better already. Seriously... LOL (Implies I thought we were worse off than we were in 1939)
I woudln’t state it in those terms, but I have seen some warning signs I don’t like.
Slam.
Yes, fitness standards are critical for Airmen. Especially those with flight duties.
When I was in you could be charged for 2 failures on the Physical Test.
They first time you failed, you were put in a daily exercise program and when you weren’t on leave you had to exercise daily for 20 mins and weigh in twice a week.
They also changed your diet in the galley, you weren’t allowed to eat what everyone else eats.
I never failed (I always showed up for the voluntary pre-tests to make sure I was going to pass) , but I think being humiliated in the galley was the worst because they made them go to the front of the line so they could make sure what they were putting on their tray.
We even had a Chief that failed. Apparently the other senior enlisted were shunning him because of his failure.
You think Putin or Red China gives their forces this kind of slack ? He’ll, do you think Mexico does?
Our forces today are not the same as our Father’s Day sadly
Is the fitness test a proper measure of the required fitness?
In the old days, a sailor had to climb the rigging, furl and unfurl sails, move cannon and lift cannon balls and powder, among other things. The work required physical fitness, but it also helped maintain physical fitness.
Now you may have sailors working on a flight deck doing what they have to do to launch and land aircraft and that activity probably helps keep them fit, but you also have sailors who are sonar or radar operators, work that I doubt contributes to their physical fitness. Should the deck hands have a higher standard of fitness? Should those who sit for their whole watch be given a break? Should the latter be given extra time off to maintain the physical fitness that their job doesn’t help them with?
Yup,as I said, "typical".I understand that if you're Navy or Air Force pulling "G"s in an F22 you need to be in damn good shape.
The majority of the guys and a couple of the girls were doing them correctly - nose touching the ground, or close to it.
Howver, most of the girls and some (too many) of the guys were barely flexing their arms, ie ~four inches of drop to 'push up' from.
As a 170 lb old guy who can still fit into the clothes he wore in high school and college, am I allowed to 'tsk tsk' at such ?
ps: although, given a couple current health issues, attempting to run 1.5 miles would doubtless kill me ;-)
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