Originally Posted by
sinister
Will it be a adopted? Probably.
Will it be a viable diagnostic test for the force and readiness for combat? No.
You could probably give it wherever troops are deployed (like Syria and other places downrange, right now) if you brought all the equipment. It might be good for determing true combat fitness -- but I doubt the force is ready to reclassify those who fail to meet "Heavy" combat requirements into other job fields.
Not a good tool for measuring groups en masse, and not worth the time for just a few Soldiers (say half-a-dozen to go to a school requiring objective minimum scores).
You could give the old APFT anywhere, including on ship or around a FOB. All you needed was a stop watch, a sheet of paper, and a writing tool to record reps to determine score on tables on the back of a single score card or off the web.
As posted above there are no pass-fail tables, and everyone is on the same raw test score basis -- no allowance or deviation-exception for age, sex, or profiles.
If anyone studies mass mobilization and intake requirements to move hordes of civilians into uniform (i.e., WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) and processing and verification for routine schools (basic leadership classes, specialty skill schools like airborne, air assault, and Ranger), the Army Command Good Idea Fairy didn't think this through. Imagine a 150-man company of trainees -- an ACFT takes hours and LOTS of supporting man-hours (timers and graders).
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