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The New Air Force Fitness Test Will Feature Walking Instead Of Running And Modified Push-Ups
Task and Purpose ^ | 06/29/21 | David Roza

Posted on 07/01/2021 9:29:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Secret Agent Man
Wait till they come out with the new uniform #pussyhat


21 posted on 07/01/2021 11:43:39 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: eyedigress

When was that? After tech school, the only people that I saw in formation were in Correctional Custody or NCO school. (81-85)


22 posted on 07/01/2021 11:55:20 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: AndyTheBear

If this an annual test to assess fitness, then it’s more than we did stateside in the ‘80s.


23 posted on 07/02/2021 12:22:23 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Enlightened1

As woke as the Air Force is, I’m surprised the fitness test doesn’t include fellatio.


24 posted on 07/02/2021 12:43:26 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: pfflier
C’mon. We’re talking 18-30 year odds. There’s some grunt work involved, but it’s not like anyone is dead-lifting bombs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpxDKGkuTw

25 posted on 07/02/2021 12:58:50 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Enlightened1

Nothing new about the test…in fact they brought back the old. When I was in the Air Force in the late 70s and early 80s, we just had to walk or run a mile and a half in 15-20 minutes once a year.


26 posted on 07/02/2021 2:09:16 AM PDT by woofer2425
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To: AndyTheBear

What branch did you serve in?


27 posted on 07/02/2021 2:15:13 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Enlightened1

I was in 2008-2015, and the fitness test changed in 2009, by 2012 or 2013 they were already talking about changing it again.

Thank God I got out, this is embarrassing to watch.


28 posted on 07/02/2021 2:15:43 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: pfflier

When I was in, I qual’d for PJ Indoc.
This is pathetic…


29 posted on 07/02/2021 2:17:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: hoagy62

Because your ASVAB scores were too low to qualify to get in?
The Army has the highest percentage of black people, just saying…


30 posted on 07/02/2021 2:19:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Enlightened1

https://youtu.be/E2ecasPqhgk


31 posted on 07/02/2021 3:25:05 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Mark17

Fly people...

I was in the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard had nothing back 50 years ago and they begged, borrowed and stole or struck MOU’s, of course things have changed over the years but in the 70’s even Coadt Guard gym equipment was cast off from the other services.

So we went to other bases for our recreational needs and the Air Force always had nice gyms, nice golf courses, nice swimming pools, nice bowling alleys, nice canteen, all the amenities. Hell, the air force even had movie theators, the coast guard showed their movies on bed sheets stretched across the bulkhead on the mess deck.

For a while there I thought about laterally moving over to the Air Force then I realized that the air force likes to grow its own, and that it’s very hard to make rank in the Air Force, as a result 20 year E5’s and E6’s are (or used to be) very common.


32 posted on 07/02/2021 3:55:53 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
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To: Vaquero

I’m a 66 year old female NASM and ACE fitness trainer. I could pass that test. What a farce. I don’t let my own clients off that easy, although I will say this: depending upon your muscle type, slow twitch or fast, some people are better sprinters, others better at long distance running. As for walking...I am a runner, but due to an injury once I power walked a 5K. It was more challenging to me than running...whole different set of muscles used. But really, we are talking about young, healthy people being trained for military service. I can’t believe they’re being this lax.


33 posted on 07/02/2021 4:00:16 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: dinodino

Ouch. I spent 32 years in the Air Force and I am not offended by that statement. :p


34 posted on 07/02/2021 5:08:07 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Enlightened1

The Chair Force?


35 posted on 07/02/2021 5:17:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Enlightened1

shouldn’t that be airperson?


36 posted on 07/02/2021 5:38:51 AM PDT by euram
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To: Gay State Conservative

And to think I thought the Navy was a clown show.


37 posted on 07/02/2021 5:39:44 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Mark17

Controller?


38 posted on 07/02/2021 5:40:10 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: EEGator

May dad, my older brother, and myself all served in Army.


39 posted on 07/02/2021 5:42:07 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Bookshelf
A few years ago I discovered a number of youtube videos showing carrier flight deck operations. Seeing them this old Army Personnel Specialist wishes he had gone Navy!
40 posted on 07/02/2021 5:55:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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