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?

I had a very similar experience. I was told that I couldn’t retire till I passed an APFT. I was on a walking profile at the time. I took the test passed the test and was told it was not a record APFT because I was on profile. To this day I have no logical reason for taking an APFT 30 days before I started leave for retirement.

Your commander is putting his career on the line for what? Should the soldier pass all is good. Should the soldier fail then it gets reported and everyone gets to ask why he was tested in the first place. Should the soldier become injured then everyone gets to question his judgement. I watched a CSM get relieved because he caused further injury to a soldier in a wheelchair. He made the soldier perform PT the day he was to sign out. The soldier had to be retained and reevaluated. The CSM was relieved the next day. So I ask again why is your commander placing his career in jeopardy?

He's still a soldier. Of course he had to do it if ordered to do so. They can not extend his ETS date for failure to pass a PT test. As to why they would do this to someone so short, I have no idea. He could be excused from the test for the rest of his unit, but maybe they just don't want anyone to skip the test. maybe he is just dealing with a real dick. I have noticed that you might occasionally run into one of those in the Army. LOL!

This sounds like a normal "expiration term of service" and whether he is liked by his command, or not, he cared enough to sign above the proverbial dotted line and do his bit. The option should be his. In the grand scheme of things, his final PT test will have no bearing at all in his life. (I once ran two miles in 9:58, when I was stationed in Germany, back in the early 1980s, it has had zero effect where my military background is concerned.) His separation type/code is the only thing that matters. If he does not want to do the PT test, then he should just go on sick call, on the day of his PT. Since he is a loss to his unit, again, whether he does the test or not has very little bearing on the unit numbers. If the intent is to mess with the soldier, I would again keep in mind that he signed-up at a time when very few people seem to step-up to serve our nation. Why mess with him, and potentially "harm" his future with a separation code that reads anything but honorable?...

yes i think i would put i for a transfer

Seems like they want to jerk you around before you hit the sidewalk. Can't imagine what they hope to really achieve by doing that outside of being jerks.

Was etsing back in the day and I had to under go the battalion skills.testing , they were oike y still.gotta do it even though you start clearing the next day to ets. Needless to say a flunked it as what were they gonna do to me?

Just have him do it. No sweat. All in a days work. He’s getting paid to do it, correct. Physical fitness is a life routine.

Crap like that always frustrated me. Some think they just have to act the fool with soldiers as they are getting ready to ETS or retire. When really they are messing with one of their best recruiting tools. That are out there not costing any money from Recruiting Commands budget.

I had this same thing happen to me, when I retired and had completed my VA disability final claim a new SGM wanted me to go to the range and do a APFT the week before my final day, told him I'd do it but handed him the paperwork stating that if I got hurt it would be on him to cover any new injuries I incurred, I was walking with a cane and had a P3 profile at the time. He said ok your exempt lol.