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Army to scrap traditional pushups, situps as part of fitness test
Washington Times ^
| 07/10/2018
| Douglas Ernst
Posted on 07/10/2018 5:02:39 PM PDT by DFG
Military officials say the U.S. Army will roll out its new and improved fitness test by October 2020.
The Army Physical Fitness Test that soldiers have known since the 1980s — 2 minutes of pushups; 2 minutes of situps; the 2-mile run — will be retired before the end of the decade. While the 2-mile run will still conclude the assessment, five other events seen as a better predictor of successfully completing combat tasks have been added.
“The Army Combat Fitness Test [ACFT] will ignite a generational, cultural change in Army fitness and become a cornerstone of individual Soldier combat readiness,” Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, commander of the Army’s Center of Initial Military Training, said Monday. “It will reduce attrition and it will reduce musculoskeletal injuries and actually save, in the long run, the Army a heck of a lot of money.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; fitness
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:02:39 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
Oh, let’s just scrap it all and see whether they can do PlayStation for 20 minutes.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:04:26 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: DFG
IOW, women can’t do pushups and we don’t want them to feel bad.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:05:13 PM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: DFG
To: DFG
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:05:41 PM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: DFG
“It will reduce attrition... And there you have it, the rest is pointless gibberish. Bottom line: More people can pass if they dumb it down.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:06:09 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:07:05 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
To: DFG
It will reduce attrition In other words too many women can't pass the old test.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:07:07 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: DFG
To: DFG
Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, commander of the Army’s Center of Initial Military Training The same clown who eliminated the grenade throw in BCT.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:07:40 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: DFG
Good. It’s not fair for our soldiers to be in better shape than the enemy... (hic!)
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:07:51 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: DFG
It will reduce attrition and it will reduce musculoskeletal injuries and actually save, in the long run, the Army a heck of a lot of money What BS.
It's only to enable women. They can't meet the standards - so lower the standards.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:07:52 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: DFG
It always starts with, ‘the women will have to meet the standards’ and then the standards are changed.
To: DFG
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:09:15 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: DFG
How to reduce standards so women can pass...
Why do I think there is way more to this?
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:10:27 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: DFG
Well, there is always group dance:
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:11:08 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: DFG
The replacement exercise will be bench-pressing snowflakes and chasing trannies.
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07/10/2018 5:11:54 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: DFG
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:12:03 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:12:20 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
To: Snickering Hound
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