Posted on 01/15/2025 8:04:46 PM PST by sunny bonobo
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77 to 81
Nonsense
Highest was 300
Waving frantically!
Counting down the days. I won’t relax until Trump gets to bed on the morning of the 21st. So excited.
Hoping you’re well and having fun.
Back when Eddie Murphy was funny…
Navy here and for some reason we were doing the Marine PFT when I was attached to an NROTC unit as part of a separate commissioning program in the late 70s. I did something like 220. Most of the midshipmen and OCs scored around 200. One or two people, typically of the couple dozen that were Marine option, would hit the very difficult maximum of 300.
I did boot camp in ‘79. It was 300 pts doing 80 sit ups in 2 min, 20 pull ups, and running 3 miles in 18 min for a perfect score
How about an 89-year-old Army vet?
Don’t know about 1970, but I was at Parris Island in 1972 and the max PFT (physical fitness test) score was 300. The test consisted of three parts: pull-ups, sit-ups, and a three-mile run. Each part was worth a maximum of 100 points (3 x 100 = 300). Far as I know, the test and its scoring remained unchanged for decades (well into the 2000’s), and might even be the same today. I would bet it was the same in 1970, but I don’t know for sure; I only know about 1972-on for sure.
yep.
Today you would have aced it. They wear running shoes now just like they would in a real war.
Today you would have aced it. They wear running shoes now just like they would in a real war.
I just had chat with my Marine buddy / recruiter retired, he said its 300.
In the early 1990s the max score was 300 on the regular scale and if you were an exceptional Marine you could get into the extended scale which maxed out at 400. I had a 330 on the extended scale first PFT after MCT and before A school so it can be done. 500 not on the scale used in the 90s my old man recently passed he was 0321 from 68 till 74 he could have answered the question.
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We were allowed “go fasters” in the 90s for our PFTs so it’s not a new thing.
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My most miserable PT test was when my black buddy and I had closed the bars and then walked around Lawton with bottles of wine talking all night long and heading back to the barracks with the sun, no time for a shower but I changed into work clothes for formation where we were all told that our PT test was that day.
My legs were dead, my feet sore from walking on concrete all night, and of course the hangover and dehydration, I easily passed but didn’t even try to max it, and I think dry heaves were involved.
Just remind him that any Navy Submariner can whup his ass
I guess I am a “old timer” but back in the 60’s 70’s no one ran or did P.T. in anything except jump boots. Right or wrong I know standards change and the changes I see are not making anything tougher but easier for certain people to pass tests..
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