{"id":68331,"date":"2016-10-07T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68331"},"modified":"2016-10-06T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T23:34:47","slug":"pt-test-tracks-too-long-for-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68331","title":{"rendered":"PT test tracks too long for Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/at-least-59-airmen-wrongly-failed-fitness-test-due-to-mismeasured-tracks\">Air Force Times<\/a> reports that PT test tracks at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas and Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts were too long, 85 feet and 360 feet respectively, and may have cost 59 airmen their careers as a result.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Goodfellow track was last accurately measured in 2010. At some point, its lanes were adjusted, Brzozowske said, and were either not remeasured afterward or were remeasured inaccurately. This caused 18 airmen to fail the fitness test who would otherwise have passed, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hanscom track had construction done after its last accurate measure in 2008 and was similarly not remeasured or remeasured inaccurately, Brzozowske said. As a result, 41 airmen there failed their fitness tests.<\/p>\n<p>However, it may be difficult to tell whether the Air Force&#8217;s estimates include every airman negatively affected by the incorrectly measured tracks.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, they might have tried to pass with the max score rather than the minimum.The Air Force should have kept their mouths shut, fixed the problem and never admitted that this was a problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force said all affected airmen are being notified and will be provided avenues for remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Brzozowske said that for airmen who are still on active duty, this means their fitness scores will be adjusted and any personnel actions that were taken as a result of those fitness scores will be remedied. She said airmen who were affected should work with their chain of command, force support squadron, legal office and the Air Force Personnel Center to correct their records.<\/p>\n<p>Airmen who have since left should contact the Discharge Review Board or the Board for Correction of Military Records, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They should publish a list so we all know who the hairy-backed Marys are who only do the bare minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times reports that PT test tracks at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas &hellip; <a title=\"PT test tracks too long for Air Force\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68331\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PT test tracks too long for Air Force<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}