At what rank should Soldiers be exempt from organized PT?

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I agree

I dont think any rank should ever be exempt from doing PT at any time in their assignment.

Why should any rank be exempt from organized PT? All ranks should participate as it builds unit cohesion and keeps everyone at the same 'basic' level of fitness.

Not ever. All military personnel should be able to meet certain physical standards.

There really isn't a rank that would be exempt from PT; but organized PT, it should be the discretion of the CDR to identify who should and could not do PT in a mandatory formation. line Units battalion and below are easily mandated to do PT in formations and at a specific time daily; but to make that the standard all the way up is pretty rigid. BDE HQs and above are usually where the focus on mandatory PT formations breaks down; mission, late nights and heavy senior rank make it silly to have everybody out in a platoon or section formation just to check the block. When I was a BDE DCO we had an entire staff platoon of CPT's and above with the XO/S3 MAJ as the PL and Ops SGM as the PSG...it was silly, and very distracting to the HHC CDR's PT formation and program. It's a touchy subject and usually very passionate in the E7/CW2/CPT and below set since they are the ones always in the mandatory fun formation; and the older folks think it just doesn't make sense. Every unit has there own PT culture, there own PT needs and should be afforded the ability to use some mission command and figure out what ranks and positions need to be at the PT formation and which can be given the privelidge to do PT on their own time, place or method.

I believe that No matter what your rank is you should take part in Command PT. Why would you not wan to PT with your Troops to help build your cohesive team.

If you score a 270 or above, regardless of rank. PT is not an issue if you score like that. I feel organized PT has brought down my score.

I think that, regardless of rank, you should be doing organized PT. However, there are a few exceptions, like those who were listed (cooks, CQ/Staff Duty, mission dictated). Now, this is going to sound hypocritical, but I am a certified indoor cycling instructor and, before deployment, was doing classes 3 days a week at 0630. While this is not "organized" per se, different elements of my unit would oftentimes use this as a chance to break monotony and do something different. Does it count as organized PT? I think so.

Now, regardless of my permanent profile, I would still take part in esprit-de-corp runs when they came around, since I felt that it was the right thing to do as a leader.

SFC SANNIS when i was a marine 1975-1988 when you made Msgt-1Sgt in the Marines or lieut.col you didnt have to qualify on the rifle range anymore...i dont know if that is still true...