You have got to be kidding me! It's a watered down version of the
Navy's fitness assessment!!! ( and it took them a year to copy it)
Same aerobic (run 1.5 miles) and the same muscle excersises (push-ups
and sit-ups). After looking at the AF charts for scores, I could be a
fatass (36 inch abdomen) and I could walk the 1.5 miles in 16 minutes
and I would have a high enough point total to be exempt from having to
do any pushups or situps!!! And I wouldn't be testable again for 12
months!!! LOL The Navy's standards are MUCH higher, I only have a 33
abdomen, run the 1.5 in 11:30 and routinely do 50 pushups and 80
situps in the 2 min time allotted and I can never score higher than a
"good". This AF article has got to be a joke?? Well, I suppose its an
improvement over the old way.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:55:49 GMT, Otis Willie
wrote:

Air Force getting Fit to Fight

(EXCERPT) , By Fred Zimmerman, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Saturday, January 10, 2004

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Kadena’s 18th Wing airmen — and the wing’s
commander — sweated through push-ups, crunches and a 1.5-mile run
Thursday as they completed their first Fit to Fight physical fitness
test.

Fit to Fight replaced the Air Force’s cycle ergometry test.

“We need to be physically fit to fight alongside the other services,”
said Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Remington, 18th Wing Commander. “I think
everyone was waiting for this … ready for this.”

Air Force members also are measured at the waist for a s...

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