{"id":80537,"date":"2018-07-13T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80537"},"modified":"2018-07-13T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:57:47","slug":"army-combat-fitness-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80537","title":{"rendered":"Army Combat Fitness Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army is changing it&#8217;s fitness requirements &#8211; even the name is changing from the Army Physical Fitness Test to the Army Combat Fitness Test, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Defense-News\/2018\/07\/11\/US-Army-to-introduce-new-physical-fitness-test\/1041531340966\/\">United Press International<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new standards call for deadlift tests, throwing ten-pound balls for distance backwards, and hand-release pushups that require hands to be taken off the ground for greater muscle tension. It also includes sled drags to simulate casualties, sprints with 40-pound kettle bells, hanging from a pull-up bar with legs up and the standard 2-mile run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout that research and testing, the goal was to provide our leaders with a tough, realistic, field-expedient assessment of the physical component of their soldiers&#8217; individual readiness,&#8221; Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey said in a press release. &#8220;The ACFT is scientifically validated and will help better prepare our soldiers to deploy, fight and win on any future battlefield.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 2,000 soldiers have already taken the new test.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a generational, cultural change in fitness for the United States Army, and will be a cornerstone of individual soldier combat readiness,&#8221; Army Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, commander of the Army&#8217;s Center of Initial Military Training, told the Military Times. &#8220;That&#8217;s how big this is for the Army.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to David for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army is changing it&#8217;s fitness requirements &#8211; even the name is changing from the Army &hellip; <a title=\"Army Combat Fitness Test\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80537\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Combat Fitness Test<\/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-80537","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\/80537","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=80537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}