U.S. Army won't require Army Combat Fitness Test scores in training
What is happening to our military? First they require holistic hippie shit, then allow "field naps", now no testing? Why are they weakening our troops?
Oct. 7 (UPI) – The U.S. Army will suspend use of its new fitness test as a requirement for graduation from training programs, citing COVID-19 concerns, it said on Wednesday.
A new version of the six-event Army Combat Fitness Test went into effect last week. The Army will encourages taking and passing the strength and fitness test, but the requirement to successfully complete it will be delayed until at least September 2021, the end of the fiscal year, Army officials told Stars and Stripes.
Suspension of the use of the test comes as the Army acknowledged constraints on training and testing due to the quarantining, social distancing and other protections required during COVID-19 pandemic, Megan Reed, spokesperson for the Army's Center for Initial Military Training at Fort Eustis, Va., told Army Times.
While the test, regarded since Oct. 1 as the Army's physical test of record, will still be administered, its successful completion is not required to advance from Army enlisted, officer or warrant officer training, Reed said.
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