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The Army has finally discovered that some folks in excellent condition don’t necessarily look it.<\/p>\n
Soldiers who score a 465 or better on the Army Fitness Test will not be subject to flagging actions for body fat percentage, the service decided this month.<\/p>\n
An Army Directive distributed Sept. 4 allows for an exemption to the body fat rule for soldiers who score at least 80 points in each of the events on the fitness test: deadlifting, pushups, sprint-drag-carry, plank and a two-mile run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not sure how 80 points times 5 events works out to 465 points, as that would total 400. I’m guessing poor writing is to blame and they mean 80 points per AND a total of 465 points, which would make more sense.<\/p>\n
I know I am not the oldest here, but even I knew multiple example of people in superb condition who just didn’t look it. Had a couple of chunky guys in AIT who had to do see a doc due to excess weight – one explained he was a body builder. The doc said he didn’t understand, and the guy did your basic bicep bulge and split the seam on his khaki shirt. (Yeah, that dates me…I actually had khakis that had to be starched. Maybe even more comfortable that starchy fatigues after you broke starch.)<\/p>\n
Even had a platoon sergeant who regularly maxed his PT tests but couldn’t do a Ranger pushup – his chest hit the ground before his arms broke the plane. And there was a Marine I knew at school who basically got PT’ed out of the Corps – damn near maxed his tests but didn’t LOOK like a Marine – round shouldered, small pot gut, soft looking – even though his 3 mile runs regularly beat
198<\/del> 18 minutes. He sent so much time doing remedial PT he had no time or energy to study, and failed the school.<\/p>\nSo it’s welcome news that after only, oh, several decades, someone at DA finally pulled their head out.<\/p>\n
Soldiers who don\u2019t meet the body fat standard but do pass the fitness requirement will not be enrolled in the Army Body Composition Program, nor will they have to undergo a tape test, in which proctor takes a waist measurement to measure body fat circumference, the Army said. The service will still make a record of their height and weight data.\u00a0\u00a0Army Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Two tips of the hat on this one, Jeff LPH Friday and Roger 4-78 mentioned it Sunday.<\/p>\n
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