Posted on 06/30/2021 9:16:26 PM PDT by PROCON
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I hate to say it...but this was the ‘standard’ up until the early 1990s, when they went to stupid bike test. The negative with the walking menu choice is that it’s not a slow pace. I did it one year to see how ‘easy’ it would be....you need to have a fairly quick pace (almost jogging) in order to make the time.
#19. Sounds like the AF PT program is being run like a restaurant instead of a military organization.
Okay. If they want to be pussified, let’s change their name from “US Air Force” to “US Air Farce”. Might as well have “truth-in-advertising” while there is still an America.
Airmen that can’t handle a little run... SMDH. How are they going to cope with sustained round the clock operations in the next conflict? Because you know the left is lining us up for another half-backside war.
Exactly. Back in the day it was easier to just run the 1.5 and get it over with.
This is just back to the future.
Thanks for the reminder. We aren’t all decendants of Vikings or Marathon Runners or Watusi Tribesmen.
Even back when I could ‘run’, long before my flat wide feet became an everyday problem, I wasn’t much of a runner, but I loved going on long walks and nature hikes.
At least they are finally bringing it to the front when the grunts called them “chair force” that it now rings true as the grunts pull their 12 mile ruck with full battle rattle.
Good old Chair Force is alive and well...
I was in the Navy but was stationed at a Air Force base in the 90's and they used stationary bikes back then.
I don’t think treadmills had been invented yet, when I was in, 67 to 87.
Supposedly, first one for home use was invented in “the late 1960s.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Staub
For an annual test? I can see that. But every morning in basic? Doubtful.
I thought this was the Babylon bee
I can see the Air Force being run by drone operators. Air combat will be no different than playing a video game, eating junk food and getting fat.
After I messed up my knee on my next to last PT test in the Army, I had a non-running profile. But had the choice of walking 2 miles or riding a bike for 2 miles against the clock. That was in 1993.
Maybe I need to get out more. 😀 I never saw any, at any Air Force facility I was ever at. I did see lots of treadmills at the Fitness Center at Travis, but not till several years after I retired. I always ran for the test.
Psay WUT?
The military is being taken over by Leftists. They’ll be weeding out testosterone and replacing it with soy. An army of woke pacifists.
Trump had better remove all these soy boy military leaders....it has to be a priority....
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