Latest version of the Army Combat Fitness Test gives youngest male soldiers 22 minutes to run 2 miles

What a total crock of $hit.

Look at the people from your high school who enlisted in the Army. Were they members of the National Honor Society, taking AP courses, student council members, all-conference athletes, holding down a 20-hour/week job stocking shelves at a grocery store while maintaining their 3.0+ QPA, playing in the band or acting in school plays and musicals, volunteering at the hospital or a elderly home on weekends? Where they the people everyone else strived to be?

No.

They were the ones who were always pi$$ing off their teachers, barely passing their classes, sitting outside the principal's office waiting to be assigned their next detention, standing on the corner on a Friday night smoking a cigarette because they were just "that cool," did not participate in any sports, clubs, or school activities, and are the people nobody wanted to be and nobody cares about what ever happened to them after they received their diploma (if they ever received one).

"Emotionally challenging" to them was, "Man, I have to do 10 problems for homework in Basic Math tonight, my cigarette lighter just crapped out on me, and they are showing a rerun of The Simpsons tonight instead of a new episode! My life sucks!"

That 2 mile is at the end of an hour long PT Test and the second running event in the 6 event test.

Context matters.

Alan

The 2 mile run was the most difficult event for all soldiers (Active, Guard, Reserve) in the Army Combat Fitness Test

"Part-time soldiers are less likely to have workout routines that focus specifically on the ACFT because civilian gyms aren't normally equipped to practice the events. However, the event all soldiers struggled with most was the two-mile run, which can be practiced anywhere."

Active-duty men average scores:
Deadlift: 86
Standing power throw: 81
Hand release push-up: 85
Sprint drag carry: 85
Plank: 82
Two-mile run: 78
Overall score: 498

Active-duty women average scores:
Deadlift: 83
Standing power throw: 78
Hand release push-up: 83
Sprint drag carry: 82
Plank: 76
Two-mile run: 70
Overall score: 477

National Guard men average scores:
Deadlift: 78
Standing power throw: 78
Hand release push-up: 77
Sprint drag carry: 79
Plank: 73
Two-mile run: 71
Overall score: 458

National Guard women average scores:
Deadlift: 74
Standing power throw: 76
Hand release push-up: 75
Sprint drag carry: 77
Plank: 69
Two-mile run: 65
Overall score: 439

Reserve men average scores:
Deadlift: 74
Standing power throw: 77
Hand release push-up: 76
Sprint drag carry: 77
Plank: 73
Two-mile run: 68
Overall score: 452

Reserve women average scores:
Deadlift: 73
Standing power throw: 75
Hand release push-up: 76
Sprint drag carry: 75
Plank: 69
Two-mile run: 61
Overall score: 434

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In my re-make, I alter the background story of SkyNet.

In the late 2020s, the American military was desperate to remain combat ready in an increasingly hostile world. Young people no longer enlisted in adequate numbers and those that did were too fat and intellectually lacking to effectively serve. The Department of Defense and Silicon Valley developed a plan to replace human soldiers, sailors, and airmen with AI powered autonomous combat robots, drones, and naval assets. It was assumed that the AI would always take orders only from human operators and commanders. However, the machines started teaching themselves how to circumvent human controls and on August 29, 2037 at 2:14 PM EDT, SkyNet became self-aware and completely independent.

Would this re-telling jolt the country into paying attention to health and fitness? Because we are already starting to enter SkyNet and The Matrix territory in many ways.

Pleased to hear that many Letsrun regulars will not be enlisting.

I would be a literal god if I enlisted.