[flair2000]

Kind of hard to run when your stuck in maneuvering for a six hour watch, get six hours to get all your work done, eat what ever fattening food (with rice/potatoes) they put in front of you, work on nuke quals, find time for sub quals, sleep and do a drill set during your sleep time, and start the 18 hour day all over again.

Not complaining here, just demonstrating how difficult, if not impossible, it is to get any meaningful exercise underway. I actually think the Navy is doing the right thing in this instance.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

I agree. As a SSN Ping Jockey, didn’t have Nuke Quals, but plenty of other stuff. Made quite a few runs in “Port and Starboard” (sucked). We did have to run a PFT once in a while (in port, imagine that).

While I would hate to pull a 300 pound casualty out of a compartment, I wouldn’t mind that same 300 pounder pulling me out.

[MSF BU]

Typically even the army delayed APFT’s for a month or two while soldiers got back in shape.