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Nothing like watching an informative Army video under my DD214 blanket.

😄😂... After that 2 mile run; all the bass in his voice was gone... 😂😂. Still gotta give him respect for finishing strong. 💪🏿👌🏿👍🏿.

Easier to pass, harder to max.

See now this is what happens when a General officer tries CrossFit for a week and decides he thinks its cool. Lol

This is the vice news I remember

“Would rather have a smaller high quality Army then Larger low quality Army”...thats right.

at 4:02 did he just use that MSG as an arm rest?... scary stuff

One month of training and he would murder that test

if only Private Pyle were here today

Me: "I can do that" *opens pack of lays*

MSG: “something else ain’t it?” Alzo: “this some bullshyt” Steve Harvey: “We asked 100 soldiers if the ACFT was something else. “Alzo you got the number one answer!”

Finally. Took them 40 damn years to change that shit. Being able to do 60 situps doesnt really help in combat. Plus situps screw up your back so Im glad they took it out.

Alzo is my favorite vice reporter

I guess the Army got tired of being made fun of by the Marine corps

0:36 look at the soldier walking past with the cone on their head

Honestly I came to talk shit since I’m in the marines.. but damn props to the Army this new test is more serious!!

This video was amazing VICE needs to do more if this. BTW the journalist was great and very fit! Nice job

I thought the main selling point of pushups, situps and a run was that you could do the test anywhere with no equipment. Now its going to require weights and straps and medicine balls and kettlebells.

Damn this was a good piece Vice! Keep this stuff up. I also liked the Alzo, good journalisms.

I Retired 14 months ago...Just in Time lol

Ask the soldiers to answer anonymously for an accurate answer to the outdated pt test, you'll be surprised by how far physical fitness has come since the '80s.

Literally just run track for two months and you’ll ace this thing

"60 minutes spread over about an hour"

Yeah I’d fail the 2 mile run 😂

Former Army Medic here. I wish I could take this test while I was in. It looks like fun and seriously tests your combat abilities. I'm genuinely interested in this. This is a great move by the Army: first the removal of the berets (absolutely hated them), removal of the ACU's ( who in Gods name approved that POS), and now this.

They should teach them to Roll like Abu Hajaar

I weighed 100lbs, was in my late 20’s and was anything but physically strong when I went to BCT. Failed my first PT test, but steadily improved when I understood its not 100% about physical strength. In my experience, anyone with heart can give 100% daily and pass the physical and mental requirements.

This called me fat in 5 branches of the military.

I think the army should adopt a similar system as the marine corps and have a pft to measure general fitness and a cft to measure combat fitness and then stagger those two tests.

I did the acft this weekemd at drill.. Its all good until you pulling that damn 90lb sled.. Everything else is not bad

I praise the army working to improve standards. Quality ahead of quantity, as the officer explained, is key.

04:17. I wished the general's superiors had that same attitude...

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

"This some bull***t" Lmfao

Now this was a good video! You should give the host and his team a raise for producing a nice lighthearted, non-political, but informative segment on something most would otherwise be unaware of.

That Major General’s squashed cover though...

"This some bs" 🤣🥇 Good video. He had me laughing and I love that he did the test

Scores a 502, still fails combat MOS standards

Great job covering this! As a solider, I’m excited for the new ACFT. I think it’s a far better test of our combat readiness than the current APFT.

Finally the army starts making the right steps! First they got rid of those dumb berets (cool for spec ops, but not needed in the general army). They they went to the multi-cam. All that's left is making the cover more presentable. Not just a smushed hat. Something that makes everyone look more uniform. Aside from that this new test is great. Everything done there is what you would do if your fighting position is under attack.

so my fat nephew who wants to join the army to avoid getting a job will fail, lmao

3:12 that's my AIT instructor right there!

I was in active duty army for 12 years that 2 mile will teach you about yourself lol we did a similar test in bnoc so I say I like where the changes are headed especially if it decreases injuries

But first Sausage...my profiles says I can’t lift or run

Now the army really finna be issuing out ibuprofen after every PT test.

One of the changes I actually like in the army.

Im really tired of hearing that stastistic about "only 30% are able to serve". Thats BS. Ive been through the process and enlisted but the rate that MEPs DQs kids is insane. "Oh you have a scar on your back from 20 years ago? Gonna need a consult son." "Wait, you had a broken wrist when you were 10? Gonna have to get a waiver bud." "You said you take melatonin sometimes to help your sleep cycle because you work third shift and have a bad sleep schedule? Thats a sleep disorder kid, PDQ." When MEPs is DQing kids for practically breathing this is the crap you get.

for the AIT final run, our company ran the course in formation. That made it so much easier. No one wanted be be the one who dropped out. Don't know if that would be allowed today.

as a formy army specialist, i'm glad to see the army updating their physical fitness standards, no more profile rangers!!!!!

"this some bullshit" 😂 soldiers say this at least 10x a day.

Better to have a 100 fit, combat-ready soldiers than 1000 unfit, incompetent soldiers.... I love that the US military is doing this and I hope that this will help us become a stronger nation!

Got medically disqualified from joining any military service back in 2013 because of a collapsed lung (2009) and small intestine surgery when I was born (1995). I would join in a heartbeat if they let me. I lost motivation and gained weight since then. Serve your country well and come back home. Have a blessed day yall.

This is trivial, get on my Mexican grandmas nerve and you won’t even escape the door from the flying flip flop. If you can dodge a flip flop you can dodge a bullet.

The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobiccapacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal bodeboop. A sing lap should be completed every time you hear this sound. ding Remember to run in a straight line and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark. Get ready!… Start.

I totally disagree with the different standards between MOSs.

This video was filmed using ait students, and the army is using them as a control group

Im looking forward to taking this new test. It seems Impossible to fail and much more difficult to max.

2:14 i love how he says im flyin a drone withmy remote control 1000 miles away to how the general or whatever guy says unmaned aireril system operator. LOL

If you're a line cook or drone operator you're going to be very grateful that you kept fit if the war ever comes all the way to you.

APFT is going to be 3 hours longer

You should go see what the JTAC has to go through for their qualification test.

As a disabled Army vet from the late 80's/90's before the 1st Gulf War, I think this is a good change...I saw several recruits and myself get injured during PT durring basic training at Ft Knox. Its nice they have a sliding scale according to the MOS-job designation-you are going in. And the MSG was right you still need to be in shape even if your a cook or account. The current recruit % that try to join and cannot even pass a simple physical standards as well as the obesity issue has been described as a National Security Issue for several years now. Thanks for this great report! I hope it helps those young men and women get a better idea what is a starting point for them to become a US Serviceman and Servicewomen in the US Army. I also hope the other branches are paying attention to this issue as well. This is a positive step in the right direction!!

Signing up next month, looking forward to this definitely 🤙

I understand that the shuttle runs will tire you out pretty good but running a 2 mile in 21 mins or less is literally too easy.

Light weight baby!! Ain’t nothing but a peanut!! -Ronnie Coleman

As a veteran of the Army in the 80's, let me throw some props out to Alzo Slade for doin' the work. There's lots of folks out there who feel mighty free to comment, but have never had to hump the ruck. My time in the Army was marked by the raising of standards across the board, in all phases of military life, as the institution finally recovered itself from the mess of Vietnam and the Hollow Army of the 70's. DA [Dept. of the Army] was getting rid of the professional drunks in the ranks, smoking was slowly being clamped down on. Training standards were raised. Physical standards were being addressed. I well remember the uproar when the Post Commander of the last base I was stationed at ordered that ALL troops on post, whatever their command, did PT every single morning. And issued Article 15s [or NJPs for you anchorheads out there] to every single troop who didn't comply. Even a battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel got a letter of reprimand for no-showing.

This is brilliant. I'm glad our men and women finally have a PT test that's built on science and experience.

As a Marine, I’m pumped that the Army has implemented a no-joke fitness test. I’ve modified my PT program as if I were training for some of these events and that has helped me improve my Marine Corps fitness test scores. I generally don’t give the Army a lot of props, but I will for this one.

Oh so you want to lean on the MSGT 😲. Outstanding!!!!!! You got balls hommie. 🤣

This is Fort Eustis saw a couple of my buddies on here

This should be all High School PE Outcomes (adjusted for dif-ability students).

If you can roll you are good to go

Wow man great job Alzo! I so would’ve loved to see Thomas Morton do this new PT test lol. Or Moynihan. No way either of them would’ve completed it.

Completed it yesterday. It was a joke how easy it was. Literally could walk the 2 mile and still pass now

The Army installations need to create a PT shelter with a 400 meter track specifically designed for this test in each battalion or brigade area, so that the test can be administered in a timely fashion and all the equipment and stations are permanently set up. They shouldn’t leave it up to the individual units to set up this thing.

most high school athlete can pass this test easily

What it take to pass basic training - nothing at all everyone can do it

This is probably the best VICE journalist..

At least they tested it on "Non-combat" MOS's

4:01 SHARP!! SHAAARRRPP!!

The host has nice style. Who makes that coat? I must have it.

Glad I got out last month 😂😂😂 *laughs in DD214*

I’m taking the asvab Monday and I was looking forward to the old school push ups, pull ups, and running. This looks way to easy tho.

But can you shoot 🤷🏾‍♂️😂

Looks like I’m getting a PT profile 🤷🏽‍♂️

Make the General do the PT test if he gon talk all that talk.

This old general has a point. In GWOT, most of the support personnel are protected by combat personnel. Usually the offense from the opposing force was minimal and the support personnel wouldn’t have to fight. However, in a conventional war there would be a much higher chance of having to actually fight off an attack as a “non combat” support soldier. It’s like the marines say, every marine is a rifleman first. The army needs to have the attitude that every soldier is a rifleman first. No more of this, well I’m a truck driver I don’t need to be combat ready. Yeah until you get ambushed by an opposing conventional army unit, your truck gets disabled, and you have to get out and fight right along side the infantry escorting you because you are out numbered.

The way he just put his arm on a MSGT scares me

Why is the US army training like a high school football team lmao.

I had to lift on my own time which meant waiting for the gym to open at 0500 before morning formation since gym PT was banned. And this was when I wasn't deployed, doing LFX, or something else. Good luck with that!

I still think the two mile run is such a bad idea. After years of doing those things multiple times per week, they take a toll on your body. A lot of people end up with bad knee or back problems.

so happy I'm getting out

Yeah right, we haven't even started the new PT test, they've been saying this for years and nothing's happened...

19:16 to run 2 miles!? And he said he thought he was in shape😂🤣

Thanks VICE i really needed this. Im Training to join the army as a 68W (Combat Medic) and now i can adapt my whole routine for the changes.

this is so pog

A bunch of people on here seem to still believe there is age brackets...there's not. There is also no gendered scores. And for all the people that are talking about how they used to run blah blah blah when they were in, you didn't do it after deadlifts and shuttle sprints with weights sooooo yeah. It's easy to say oh I can run an 11:30 2-mile run or can do 100 situps and pushups cause you only weight 125 soaking wet, but then can't so much as deadlift 200 pounds (average weight of Soldier in full kit). New test will def be a better measurement of fitness within the Army, and will certainly seek to get rid of those profile riders who have been non-combat ready since 2009 (no, seriously I've seen these people come through my office).

Thank you for this, was just talking about this yesterday

I agree with the statement on every soldier needing to be in shape. The future battlefield may not have the luxury of bases being safehavens.