{"id":69486,"date":"2016-12-20T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69486"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:37:53","slug":"combat-arms-physical-assessment-test-for-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69486","title":{"rendered":"Combat Arms Physical Assessment Test for the Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/articles\/want-to-go-infantry-you-have-to-pass-this-new-fitness-test-first?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Early+Bird+Brief+12.20.2016&#038;utm_term=Editorial+-+Early+Bird+Brief\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that the Army has finally developed it&#8217;s physical assessment test for folks wanting to go into combat arms specialties;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soldiers will have to complete the four-part [Occupational Physical Assessment Test] to enter certain military occupational specialties. The test also eventually will expand to help recruits determine which jobs they&#8217;re qualified for. <\/p>\n<p>This new requirement comes as the Army works to integrate women into its previously closed combat specialties.  <\/p>\n<p>The OPAT consists of four events: a medicine-ball throw, standing long jump, deadlift and interval run. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike other Army fitness tests, the OPAT only has one scoring scale, with no separate charts for age or gender.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, no one talked to the folks at Building <del datetime=\"2016-12-20T15:37:35+00:00\">One<\/del>Four at Fort Benning. None of those four events address any concerns about allowing people into the infantry &#8211; maybe armor or artillery, but certainly not infantry. <\/p>\n<p>A swing and a miss, Army, try again.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports that the Army has finally developed it&#8217;s physical assessment test for folks &hellip; <a title=\"Combat Arms Physical Assessment Test for the Army\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69486\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Combat Arms Physical Assessment Test for the Army<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69486","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=69486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}