When I was in the Green Machine back at the dawn of time, I always hated PT, which probably was a good measure of just how effective it was. If you are going to be in the military physical fitness is not a luxury extra but something that can save your life and the life of others in a crisis moment. Apparently the woke military knows better. This does remind me of a quote I have heard about the Air Force, that it is almost like being in the military.
Pathetic
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I was going to make a chair force joke myself, but right about now a good friend of mine actually in the air force is deployed in Qatar right now so it feels a little in appropriate (though I know he’d laugh if he was here).
If any of you can spare a prayer or a saint or two for Russell and his family, they’d appreciate it. I know I’d feel better if we had an actual cognizant leader at this moment.
My dad served in the Air Force in the early fifties. His first Air Force uniforms were the first new clothes he ever had. He wished he had made it a career.
It’s not as bad as it sounds– husband was in the AFR for a while (yes, many jokes contrasting it with the Navy!) and got broken, so he had to do the LLD PRT.
The walk means you still have to make the time, and yes it hurts.
The sprints make sense, and the “raised hand pushups” have the honor of being the first exercise that makes sense from a military perspective. (It’s pushups where you go all the way to the ground and throw your arms out wide, then get back up– as husband just demonstrated, like you might if you are under fire and hit the deck.)
I like the sprints as an option, although I really hope they get something at least vaguely scientific for the body composition part. Maybe, gasp, actually using all that health care, including the yearly physical, and using actual diagnosis criteria for obesity….
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-fitness-test-walking/
And of course I’ll pray for Russell.
The problem is numbers. If you have a patriotic, hard-working population, you can be choosy. If you’ve got a generation of people who don’t seem interested in service or even in holding a job, you have to lower standards. Any position that can be filled by a couch potato, gets filled by a couch potato.
Prayers for Russell and family. A former marine priest suggested I send a blessed St. Benedict medal to my newphew in Iraq. Father had sent one to his own brother, a marine, over there. However it has to go through to an APO or FPO address and customs form marked necklace w/ low value or something like that. Same prayer cards to St. Michael.
Back to PFT, in the the navy one had the option of swimming, or running in place instead of timed 1.5 run. Women had the option of modified push ups, chin ups because if you are a real female the upper body stress is less than males. However females abdomenal muscles are usually stronger than males.
Maybe the USAF is allowing more airmen to remain on active duty with prosthetics? Or maybe it’s just the Air Force.
Oh, yes, my prayers too.
If you’ve got a generation of people who don’t seem interested in service or even in holding a job
There hasn’t been any secular decline in the employment-to-population ratio. The Millennials differ from older cohorts in their willingness to marry and have children.
Nate. I just sent a help request for Russell and his family.
Cognizant leader?
Crash test dummies would be a step up from the Teleprompter in Charge…
…but wait.
This is the best the Left has to offer.
How pathetic.
Shame on his wife! Dr. Jill.
What a pimp she turned out to be.
Devout Catholics like the Biden’s create Protestants.