"Fit, Not Fat:" making the US military's standards high again

[Cookie_]

Ranger School is getting a new PT test, which is a modified version of the E3B Physical Ftiness Assessment.

Comparison of the RS and [E3B] tests:

ACU and boots (w/ helmet+plate carrier)

800m run [1 mile]
30 "deadstop", or chest to ground, push-ups
100m sprint
16 40# sandbags onto 68inch platform
50m farmers carry w/ 2 40# water cans
25m high crawl, 25m 2-3 second rush
800m run [1 mile]

Rangers get 14 minutes total for theirs.
They'll then change into PTs, do a 32 minute 4 mile, then 6 chinups.

E3B is 27:30 for Infantry and 30:00 for everyone else.
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I reeeeeeeeaaaaallllly want to see this become our pass/fail PT event, or at least our version of a CFT. Might have to change the uniform/time standards a bit if pushed out to the total force, but it'd still be a positive assessment in my book.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

@Cookie_

That looks intense...I Wanna try it when I can walk again.

 

[Box]

...WTF is wrong with our standards?

Its because combat is apparently based on subjective truth.

It breaks down like this:
If a 43 year old multiparous biological female engages in hand-to-hand combat with a 25 year old biological male - the universe intervenes and makes the fight fair
even though it is a knife fight
to the death
in the mud
in the dark of night
after both combatant have spent the last 2 hours walking in rough terrain with 50+ pounds of weapons and equipment
...because muh' eqwalitee

 

[Marauder06]

Its because combat is apparently based on subjective truth.

It breaks down like this:
If a 43 year old multiparous biological female engages in hand-to-hand combat with a 25 year old biological male - the universe intervenes and makes the fight fair
even though it is a knife fight
to the death
in the mud
in the dark of night
after both combatant have spent the last 2 hours walking in rough terrain with 50+ pounds of weapons and equipment
...because muh' eqwalitee