{"id":76735,"date":"2017-12-23T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76735"},"modified":"2017-12-23T09:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:45:43","slug":"navy-forgives-pt-test-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76735","title":{"rendered":"Navy forgives PT test failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of folks have sent us links to the story about the US Navy claiming that it won&#8217;t force sailors out of the service for two failures of the fitness test. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy-to-forgive-past-fitness-test-failures-end-most-fitness-discharges-1.503657\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Navy will no longer boot most sailors from the force solely for failing fitness tests, the service said in a Navy-wide message amending its three-year-old fitness regulations. The changes come as the Navy looks to increase the service by more than 4,000 sailors by the end of fiscal year 2018 on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Adm. Robert Burke, the chief of naval personal, wrote in a memorandum that the changes were designed to ensure the minimum fitness levels were met across the force, while retaining otherwise qualified sailors to ensure the service grows as ordered by Congress in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act signed this month by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Number One priority is to keep the fleet properly manned,\u201d Burke wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy altered it&#8217;s policy of booting PT failures if they failed three tests in four years to two tests in three years. They say that they have 43,000 who have failed one in the past three years and 5500 with two failures in the last two years. Folks scheduled for the boot in March are forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll warn you fatties that you might be good now, but when the Navy changes it&#8217;s mind, you won&#8217;t get a warning from the service, so keep working on your PT test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of folks have sent us links to the story about the US Navy claiming &hellip; <a title=\"Navy forgives PT test failures\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76735\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy forgives PT test failures<\/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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76735","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=76735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}