Army secretary: PT belts aren’t needed in daylight

Without PT belts and less cigarette butts on the ground do to the decline in smokers, CSMs will need to reevaluate their task and purpose. What will they talk about in C&S meetings?

Seriously, I have always thought the PT belt was ridiculous. We train grown men for combat then tell them they are not responsible enough to do PT without getting ran over by a car. Just my opinion.
 
Topkick said:
Without PT belts and less cigarette butts on the ground do to the decline in smokers, CSMs will need to reevaluate their task and purpose. What will they talk about in C&S meetings?

Seriously, I have always thought the PT belt was ridiculous. We train grown men for combat then tell them they are not responsible enough to do PT without getting ran over by a car. Just my opinion.
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I was once hit by a car on Fort Campbell while doing road guard.

If I had been wearing a PT belt in addition to the high visibility vest, I'm sure he would have seen me. /sarcasm
 
Cookie_101st said:
I was once hit by a car on Fort Campbell while doing road guard.
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In an Army career of over 20 years, about 15 years without PT belts, I never heard of anyone getting hit by a car during PT. You're "that guy." 😉☺️ I am sure it happened, but I doubt a PT belt would've prevented it.
 
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At Knox we had only one color-yellow.

At Bliss we had three: Blue-Officer, Green-NCO, Yellow-SPC4 and below. There was also Orange, but I have no idea what that was for. If you recall, in the last version of AR 670-1 it made PT Belts CDRs discretion and many units issued MORs saying no more PT belts. Yet everywhere I've been there's been PT Belts.

So I have a serious lack of faith this gets implemented.
 
Topkick said:
In an Army career of over 20 years, about 15 years without PT belts, I never heard of anyone getting hit by a car during PT. You're "that guy." 😉☺
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I was at the intersection waving cars through. This lady dropped her phone, went to reach for it, and immediately swerved into me.
Luckily she wasn't going any faster than 10ish MPH or I'd have actually been injured.
 
Cookie_101st said:
I was at the intersection waving cars through. This lady dropped her phone, went to reach for it, and immediately swerved into me.
Luckily she wasn't going any faster than 10ish MPH or I'd have actually been injured.
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Yeah, I guess it can actually happen if the driver does something suddenly eratic. When I was at Campbell, the roads were closed to all traffic during PT hours yet we still wore the PT belt.
 
Alright good step forward... let’s get on with the face tats and reefer already.
 

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