How do you count the grading of an APFT with alternate events for promotion reasons?

May I ask why you’d recommend that? Frankly I don’t believe in using a soldier until they are broken, and then tossing them away like they don’t mean anything. If a soldier was hurt in his or her duty, it’s our duties to help them. Not just cast them aside. And when a soldier has a life long injury that causes pain when doing the pushups and sit-ups, it wouldn’t be exactly fair to grade them on the inability to do them pain free. But I’d never cause someone to lose their job because they got hurt doing their job. we are supposed to take care and help one another.

SSG (Join to see) - I think that you misunderstand. I'm not saying that we should simply cast aside injured SMs. I am saying that they obviously cannot serve at the standard that should be necessary. Because of this, they are taking up a slot in a unit that could be manned by someone fully capable of performing the duties required - this includes being physically capable of the job. Just because an SM is processed out does not mean that we forget about them. I am a perfect example of this; I was medboarded because I was "unable" to perform my duties. At that point, it is the responsibility of the VA to serve that injured SM. They also shouldn't be simply drummed out without any means which is why there are transition programs in place along with VA disability for those with legitimate ailments and injuries as a result of their service. Don't get me wrong, I am one of the last people that is going to preach just pushing out "broken" Soldiers, but the military does have a job to do and if you are unable to perform that job you are making the military weaker, even if only slightly.

I completely understand what your are aiming at sergeant, but 600-8-19 does talk about the waiver of the pushups and/or sit-ups event for a soldier, which does not put them out of standard due to their injury. Now don’t get me wrong, if this person is not doing the events, but playing rugby on the weekends, something needs to be done. But for the sake of a very good soldier who deserves nothing more then to be promoted, I want to find out if their passing APFT would count as a 300 to aid them in the promotion.

SSG (Join to see) I do and simultaneously do not agree. I understand the want to get a good Soldier promoted. However, recommending someone for promotion is a statement that says that the Soldier has demonstrated all of the requirements to be successful at the next grade. Being physically incapable of performing would immediately and irrevocably deny that. This is also why those who are in P status when medboarded often receive the promotion to their next grade without ever having been promoted. I am always for looking out for Soldiers - as an NCO it was my duty to ensure the "accomplishment of [the] mission and the welfare of my Soldiers" - but sometimes one must take precedence over the other; this requires a judgment call based on all of the important factors and the mission or Soldiers' welfare may win that argument in either direction in any number of situations.