At what rank should Soldiers be exempt from organized PT?

At what organizational level? I loved seeing our CSM come to morning PT whenever he'd be around during training. It was cool to see that although he's really high up in rank and very busy, he has time to do the drills with us and KNOWS what the exercises are.

PT ought to be done within your immediate command level. 1SG and my CO can join with their platoons from time to time, BN level can do their own thing but freely move around, and so on. PT is to maintain physical readiness and such, same with weapon qualification, and the APFT (soon ACFT).....why do we need a rank to stop doing these?

There should be no organized pt. A pt test is a individual task, if you can’t maintain the standard then you should be in the army, you should have to babysit a individual in order for the to stay in this career. The pt score minimum should be raised and pt should be done on your own. If you can’t maintain the raised standard then you have no point in being here.

Ahh no rank should be e empty

So in my opinion all and none.....


Let's start with the why all?


Unit PT sucks.... no one actually enjoys getting up at zero dark 30 to go for a run, or do muscle failure (which usually just turns into more running) followed by 3 more days of running. Now that being said, I understand some units will actually come up with a decent PT schedule and stick to it...but does the majority of units actually do that?

Now for the none....


Accountability, and military regulations says PT will be conducted.... so therefore there isn't really an option unless given a freebie by your 1SG or CO. You make it to where there is no organized PT some people will do better on their own. But we all know those select few who would ruin It for the bunch.... not workout on their own time, not conduct PT on their own ect. Resulting in PT test failures....

I mean national guard and reservists pretty much already opted out and as I've seen E6 and above it's pretty much optional apart from just being at formation and then doing the command team huddle next to the PT formation. As you can tell I have great leadership.

I can't believe that is a serious question.

I would like to say that organized PT is important on many levels. Wow it may not sustain the individual efforts to remain physically fit at least it ensures that all members have some level of physical training. The unit runs as stated in the regulations when I was in were fore esprit de corps mostly. The individual still owned his responsibility for maintaining unacceptable level of physical readiness. Still it's .training and everyone should be at training.

1SG (Join to see) Absolutely never. Physical fitness, leadership, and human interaction which builds the team are paramount to everything we do.

If they can't meet physical standards retire

Never, How the hell can you lead 18yr old troops if you are a blimp?