{"id":28100,"date":"2011-12-27T16:50:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28100"},"modified":"2011-12-28T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T19:53:07","slug":"air-force-ltc-says-walk-test-discriminates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28100","title":{"rendered":"Air Force LTC says “walk test” discriminates (Photo added)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate to pick on you Air force guys, but your peers make it so easy. The Air Force Times<\/a> reports that a 56-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cote has filed an EO complaint against the Air Force because he says that their 1-mile walk test discriminates against his old ass (for the record, my son is in the Air Force, and I’m 56, so get your knickers untwisted). It seems that he just barely passed his one-mile walk, and instead of working out, he sat on his ass and did some math;<\/p>\n

Cote has since filed an equal-opportunity complaint with the service, claiming that his age meant he would receive a worse VO2 max score. The lieutenant colonel claims the formula penalizes older airmen because VO2 max scores naturally decline with age but Air Force formulas don\u2019t account enough for that dip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, Colonel Cote, here’s something you might not have considered – either work out more or retire. It’s a one mile walk, for Pete’s sake. They’re not asking you to run a three hour marathon. You’re old, but you’re not an invalid. Walk two miles every day and the one mile walk will be a breeze. I wish I could find a picture of him.<\/p>\n

See that’s the reason we all laughed when the Air Force made that commercial<\/a> about AF Basic being tougher than the Marines.<\/p>\n

Thanks to ROS who found his picture. That hair hat might be slowing him down, along with his non-aerodynamic frame;
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Hey! I’m big boned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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