Finess standards

The jury is most definitely in: The Army Physical Fitness Test, for all its simplicity and efficiency, does not measure how well a soldier will perform under fire.

 

The Army has known that for years, officials told Army Times, and the service has spent more than a decade looking for a better way to not only measure combat readiness but also to train soldiers to that standard while reducing injuries.

 

Program managers at the Center for Initial Military Training think they’ve finally got the right test: A six-event slog dubbed the Army Combat Readiness Test.

 

They rolled it out in an early August pilot at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, where members of that state’s National Guard and special operators from 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment gave it a whirl.