I have a soldier with an ETS date is in 20 days, and the command wants to give him a PT test. Does the soldier have to do it/pass or fail?

The command is screwing w/ this soldier.

The soldier has to take the PT test if he is ordered to. He does not have to pass.

Has he completed his final physical? If so, he has a reason not to take the pft

If I am correct he still has to fulfill his duties up until the very last day. So yes, he does need to pass the test. otherwise it goes on his record that he failed the pt test. It will reflect on any federal job he may try to obtain in the future. When my husband refused to re-enlist. His company turned on him in a bad way. He was forced to take a pt test, go our into the field and was not allowed to take his terminal leave until he had completed all of that. They were good to him until he refused to re-enlist. Then they became vindictive to him. I would just do it and be done with it.

While I retired back in 2009. My Squadron had marked me as a loss to avoid having me do PT/PFT; since I was getting out of the service. If he's transfers to a different unit/command; then YES he does have to do his PFT/PT as required.

For the future people watching this if they try to make you take one when your not suppose to if it so happens that you hurt yourself your command will get in big trouble.

That's a big negative. If the Soldier has already taken an exit physical then they are exempt from PT and any APFT. Pretty much like everyone has said if they wind up getting hurt then the process starts all over again and they are kept past their ETS date. Sounds like someone has it out for your Soldier in my opinion.

I'm guessing your soldier irritated someone in the command who's more vengeful than smart (couldn't POSSIBLY be a commissioned US Army officer, righ?), because, as several of the fine super lifers have already pointed out, your soldier has already taken his exit physical and any injury that might occur is going to mess up a whole lot of paperwork AND put Uncle Sugar on the hook for some sweet medical retirement. Perhaps there's a young LT who needs coaching in Operational Risk Management.

On the other hand, if your soldier would like to retire early, maybe breaking his leg on the PT test is exactly the lesson your command needs. I mean, accidents happen.

That was a SHORT TIMER pin.

Give him a "short timer" to wear. I would let him take the test just to CYA?

Is the soldier up for an end of service award? If so yes, if not, don't expect much.