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THE SCORE ON PT

I don’t think it got any harder. I think it actually got a little easier, in the performance department, at least. You may have to shave a couple of inches off the waist to get those points back, but it seems the rest of it will be easy.

— Mi11er

When I got the first bootleg copy of the charts, I reran my unit’s numbers. Most people improve their overall scores by 6-8 points. However, the minimums are no joke. Of my 44 people, there were 12 instances (some multiples on a single individual, so not an overall 12 fails) where people did not meet the minimums, and another eight where they were on the bubble. … Should be a pretty big wake-up call.

— CrustySMSgt

The only part I don’t like (besides the points) is that there is no 25-29 category. I feel much different at 29 than I did at 18. My knees hurt more and my back flares up occasionally due to a mild bulging disc. I think having me do more sit-ups at this age than I had to do to graduate basic is a little ridiculous.

— Fufu

I’m all for being in shape, and the service has come a long way with fitness from my early years, but it seems like they want to raise the bar here just because enough people were not failing. ... Also, since there apparently won’t be any more unit PT time allocated/mandated, why even have the crap PT gear — just so we can have it every year or so for a deployment?

— Mr. Happy

I am a thin guy and have always had problems getting to even 40, much less 42, sit-ups in a minute, but do quite well in every other area. But the minimum for push-ups is only 33. I believe they got that backward. Now I am going to have to work my tail off just to make a minimum. I am all for good fitness but this just took it to another level of ridiculous — like I already said, the last program was a failure and this one will be too.

— VFFSSGT