Posted on Sep 2, 2020
What effect will a failed APFT, and being unable to retest due to COVID, have on my chances of getting selected for a direct commission?
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My Unit commander is new to the company. I asked him to write Recommendation letter for my coming Direct Commissioned board. I failed last APFT as i was not well at that time. He mentioned that APFT failure in letter. He also mentioned I was unable to give another APFT since november 2019 due to Covid restriction. Do you think thats gonna affect the in selection board? i can pass APFT now if they conduct one...Any suggestion please.
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Pass your APFT. If your last APFT was a failure you should be flagged. Current COVID guidelines don’t preclude anyone from taking an APFT if they’re failing. With a failing APFT you shouldn’t even be considered eligible or qualified to submit a packet to the board
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My recruiter and Recruiting office Captain is ready to take one for me...And if my unit doesn’t accept that PT score, recruiting office CPT will write a memo for me saying that i had passed the APFT. Does that make sense??SFC (Join to see)
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Ok so i request with unit to give record APFT test but I didn’t get any response from them. So today recruiter took APFT and i passed all events. Do you think unit can update that score? Thank you
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1LT (Join to see) you have to take it to whoever has dtms access in your unit.
If you are looking to be an officer these are things that you need to start getting smart on.
If you are looking to be an officer these are things that you need to start getting smart on.
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I requested unit to take one but they didn’t respond so recruiter is trying to help meSFC (Join to see)
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1. When you failed the AFPT, that should have been a flag immediately. 2. Flag will not allow you to seek anything- commissioning, OCS, promotion, awards, etc. Until you can pass whatever test (AFPT/ACFT) you are in total limbo.
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You should be able to take another APFT. COVID mitigation measures don't say that you can't take the test, they say a unit can't force it at this time.
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1LT (Join to see) Anybody can administer the test. The problem will be in actually lifting the flag which your unit has to do. So if your unit doesn't accept the 705 from someone else, then it won't matter.
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