Here's What The Army's Proposed Gender-Neutral Combat Test Really Looks Like

If I was still in, I wouldn't get my hopes up on seeing this happen. They've been talking about revamping the APFT for 20yrs and it hasn't changed, even though it should've. I could be wrong, but when my father was in, there were five or six events they had to do, and for the "New Army" I came in, we had three. So for the "NewER Army", we're going to bring in Crossfit to judge strength levels and performance? I like the idea of changing the APFT being it really doesn't gauge anything short of your run time, but to have it MOS based is wrong. You never really know when you could be called on to leave the wire, and to not be in the same condition as the person next to you mentally and physically is wrong. If I'm a 25B in a infantry unit, who's standard would I adhere to? It should be the 11B's but who knows?

Incorporate some of this with the current APFT and lets call it a day. Do away with the two mile run. Make it shorter or make it 19miles long and call it the Bergdal event. No one in the Army short of Bergdal has run two miles in a combat zone. Even he was caught.

Commenting to read later.

I generally prefer the idea of MOS based APFTs, instead of gender. Scaled for age (obviously). Certain MOS' have certain fitness requirements and everyone hoping to serve in that capacity needs to be able to meet the same requirement, regardless of gender. Hopefully, that is the direction the Army is moving towards.