How does your Commander's performance on their PT test influence your opinion of them?

I’ve been out of the Corps for 21 years now, but I really can’t think certain things have changed all that much. In the Corps an Infantry Officer, especially the Company Commander must lead from the front. He doesn’t have to have the highest PFT score by any means, but he had better be a 1st class PFT. Anything less and he’s not gonna be leading Infantry Marines very long.

For me the commanders pt test does matter. Last time I took a pt test with my commander he pushed me to max the run as we were side by side. We both maxed out our pt test and for me my commander being better then me makes me respect him more. Many people especially NCO's dont care because they can't exceed the standard themselves so an officer doing good just makes them look bad, but if the officer wants the respect of his Joe's then he should be the best he can be in every area regardless if its something small like a pt test.

I never really thought about it but I feel that passing is passing don’t matter by how much, however if my commander was to fail it would be hard to overlook it. Commander want their soldiers to perform and I believe that you lead by example.

What mattered most to me was the CO's response to his/her people. I don't care what their PT score was.

If they pass then I don’t give a flip

I never really cared. I’m an air winger so our workload was always more important than PT. Honestly if every commander I had failed every PFT I still wouldn’t care because I’d be too busy trying to figure out how I’m gonna meet the flight schedule.

I know plenty of 300 plus studs who sucked at their jobs! APFT is overrated! With that being said, I’ve always scored 270 or better! As long as the CDR passes I’m good!

Basically if someone just doesn't fall out of unit runs that's all I really care about. CO always sets the pace fpr that though so I expect them to run a decent speed at least, of course not blitzing it but prolly 9 minute a mile speed.

I always did reasonably well on the PT test. I am not an athlete. I do think that my conversations with those who did not do well were more effective since I wasn't an athlete. I never heard anything from those who blew it out of the water, they never seemed to mind either way...we rooted for everyone to do well. All that said, I was AF not Army or Marines.

Who would ever know? our 1St Sgt couldn’t walk 3 miles in a day if he had too, but he had more salad than any man I’ve ever seen, no doubt fairly earned in Nam, he didn’t need to pass a PT test. I saw the LT Col only once, if he left his office it was a secret, but I got chewed out for not jumping at Bragg, but I hated jumping with Army it was always a Clusterfuck, we were free to choose when we wanted to jump.