Posted on Jan 23, 2018
Air Force rolls out new job-specific PT tests to better prepare airmen for the fight
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This NEEDS to happen. I have long been an advocate of Functional Fitness over simple movement exercises. From the article, the Tier 2 test would be limited to AFSCs that require more stringent fitness requirements than the simple Tier 1 (situps, pushups, 1.5 mile run) require. Counting how many times you can bend at the waist, or push yourself up off the ground does not teach us how able you are to climb a wall or carry gear, etc.
Air Force rolls out new job-specific PT tests to better prepare airmen for the fight
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Fitness Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) 1T2X1: Pararescue 1C2X1: Combat Control Security Forces
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I know some great exercises for my fellow members of the Chair Force...
https://youtu.be/U-fnrRLhU_I
https://youtu.be/U-fnrRLhU_I
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Capt Dwayne Conyers Ha! The sad thing is that, for some, even this is too strenuous for them.
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DoD Physical Fitness and Body Fat Programs Procedures have prescribed occupational-specific fitness standards be implemented as required since at least 1995. Appearance of occupational-specific fitness standards in DOD and each military Departments physical fitness policies is direct result of 103rd Congress putting in place statue requiring gender-neutral occupational standards. This law requires with respect to a military career designator (MOS, AFSC, NEC, RATE) that all members of the Armed Forces serving in or assigned to that military career designator must meet the same physical and performance outcome-based standards for the successful accomplishment of the necessary and required specific tasks associated with the qualifications and duties performed while serving in or assigned to the military career designator. Reference: Section 543 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103–160; 10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended: GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD.
The only Air Force military career designator (AFSC) to require those holding AFSC to accomplish a occupational-specific fitness test that spanned the entire specialty as long as the AFSC was awarded and duties of the AFSC were being performed prior to 1988 was Pararescue. Combat Control adopted Pararescue fitness standards in 1988. These standards were certified by the Department of Air Force as meeting the requirements of being gender-neutral in 1989 and again in 1993. Prior to 1996 (SERE), no other AFSC implemented an occupational fitness test that spans the entire specialty.
A review of all current press releases and studies/research clearly disclose the current Tier two standards are connected to TACP becoming the first Air Force military occupation to implement a Tie Two fitness requirement.
Various other press releases disclose:
1. "Job-specific standards are also in the works for the remaining battlefield jobs: special tactics officers, combat controllers, and special operations weather."
2. "The Air Force is considering crafting similar standards for other jobs that require physical activity but don’t fall in the special tactics or battlefield airmen categories. That could include firefighters, security forces, SERE, loadmasters, civil engineers, and others."
The only Air Force military career designator (AFSC) to require those holding AFSC to accomplish a occupational-specific fitness test that spanned the entire specialty as long as the AFSC was awarded and duties of the AFSC were being performed prior to 1988 was Pararescue. Combat Control adopted Pararescue fitness standards in 1988. These standards were certified by the Department of Air Force as meeting the requirements of being gender-neutral in 1989 and again in 1993. Prior to 1996 (SERE), no other AFSC implemented an occupational fitness test that spans the entire specialty.
A review of all current press releases and studies/research clearly disclose the current Tier two standards are connected to TACP becoming the first Air Force military occupation to implement a Tie Two fitness requirement.
Various other press releases disclose:
1. "Job-specific standards are also in the works for the remaining battlefield jobs: special tactics officers, combat controllers, and special operations weather."
2. "The Air Force is considering crafting similar standards for other jobs that require physical activity but don’t fall in the special tactics or battlefield airmen categories. That could include firefighters, security forces, SERE, loadmasters, civil engineers, and others."
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MSgt John C. It is my sincere hope that they DO implement it for the AFSCs that require a more rigorous fitness standard. One that is tuned specifically for that AFSC. The test for Pararescue should not quite be the same as the one for CCT, should not be quite the same for TACP, should not be the same as for SF, but they DEFINITELY need to be different than the Tier 1 for the rest of the Force.
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MSgt John C.
According to an AF Times article “The Air Force is considering crafting similar standards for other jobs that require physical activity but don’t fall in the special tactics or battlefield airmen categories. That could include firefighters, security forces, SERE, loadmasters, civil engineers, and others.” I have no personal reason to discourage this.
However the law put in place by the US Congress in 1994 I previously mentioned has the following stipulation:
NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF CHANGES- Whenever the Secretary of Defense proposes to implement changes to the occupational standards for a military occupational field that are expected to result in an increase, or in a decrease, of at least 10 percent in the number of female members of the Armed Forces who enter, or are assigned to, that occupational field, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report providing notice of the change and the justification and rationale for the change. Such changes may then be implemented only after the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date on which such report is submitted.
Considering: (1) Teir Two standards are the same standards set for all age groups and both genders and (2) the complete lack of occupational-specific fitness standards existing at anytime before and after 1947 there will likely be challenges in before courts that no prior existence of tier two standards demonstrate the standards have no justification and are a basis of unlawful age and gender discrimination.
There is also the problem of how many fail the Tier one standard and get separated before completing first enlistment or denied reenlistment into second enlistment that certainly discourages implementing an Tier 2 standard and annual tier two fitness test that spans the entire specialty.
However the law put in place by the US Congress in 1994 I previously mentioned has the following stipulation:
NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF CHANGES- Whenever the Secretary of Defense proposes to implement changes to the occupational standards for a military occupational field that are expected to result in an increase, or in a decrease, of at least 10 percent in the number of female members of the Armed Forces who enter, or are assigned to, that occupational field, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report providing notice of the change and the justification and rationale for the change. Such changes may then be implemented only after the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date on which such report is submitted.
Considering: (1) Teir Two standards are the same standards set for all age groups and both genders and (2) the complete lack of occupational-specific fitness standards existing at anytime before and after 1947 there will likely be challenges in before courts that no prior existence of tier two standards demonstrate the standards have no justification and are a basis of unlawful age and gender discrimination.
There is also the problem of how many fail the Tier one standard and get separated before completing first enlistment or denied reenlistment into second enlistment that certainly discourages implementing an Tier 2 standard and annual tier two fitness test that spans the entire specialty.
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