Posted on 03/23/2022 1:41:08 PM PDT by devane617
After three years of complaints and debate, the Army has scrapped its move to have a physical fitness test that is gender and age neutral, and will now allow women and older soldiers to pass while meeting some reduced standards.
The decision comes after a study by the Rand research organization confirmed that men were passing the new six-event fitness test at a much higher rate than women and that older soldiers were also struggling with their scores in the expanded, more difficult test developed in 2019.
The change, however, will affect only the regular fitness test that soldiers take annually. Qualifying for certain Army jobs, particularly more demanding combat positions or specialties such as Ranger school, will continue to require that everyone — regardless of age or gender — pass the same fitness tests and standards.
The Army revamped the fitness test three years ago, going from three events — pushups, situps and a run — to a more difficult and complicated combination of six events. Those six are a dead lift, power throw, pushups, plank, run and a combination sprint/drag/carry. A leg tuck was included early on but has been eliminated.
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Well that should improve readiness and war fighting capability.
These morons NEVER learn.
You can just say you feel like a woman today and get the lower standards test Soldier !
Nuff said.
Well Joe, just claim you identify as a woman. If they’re going to rig the rules, use them to your advantage.
So have wars gotten easier to fight?
What was the Army PFT during WWII? Seems to me we won with that.
They tried to make the tests easier for ladies (without admitting that they were doing so), and now they’ve looked at the results and found the men are still passing the new tests much more easily than women. So they are going to have to nerf them again.
jhfc
I am sure the enemy will make appropriate adjustments.
Sounds like the recently revised standards were more indicative of what a soldier could really do in the field. When I was in, many years ago, I was deemed to be in better shape than 95% of my peers because I could do push-ups and sit-ups all day. I weighed about 130 pounds. Put a 80+ pound ruck on me and I didn’t hold up nearly as well as a lot of those guys, I could barely keep up if the day went on too long. I finally figured out that push-ups and sit-ups were not necessarily the best indicator of what a person could do in rough field conditions.
Do like the cops have done, drop all standards.
The weakening of our military continues. So tired of the media pushing that women are stronger than men and then seeing men win in women’s sports and standards lowered for them.
I was in the service back when they had squids approaching 300 lb in tight a$$d Cracker Jacks... they were in every service but you rarely saw them in the Marines.
The Army wants to battle the Air Force for title of "fattest service members."
I can see we’re going to school on readiness the Russians
seem to be exhibiting.
Is that us in five years?
We keep lowering standards.
When is the last time we saw some raised standards in this
nation?
Hahahahahahahahaha!
They got rid of the leg tuck because…..females were having a hard time doing it.
PT stands for Politically Tested.
No problem! They’ll just ask the ref for a timeout during battle. /s
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