RAF Fitness Test now IT not PT..
When I left school in 1955 the lads regarded as beefers would now be seen as normal. In the UVIth we had one fatty, two beefers and about 30 who looked like the young men in the photo.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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The RAF are bringing in mobile gym kit on bikes for PTIs to travel round to try and make people do phys as the RAF won't walk to the gym....
The RAF are bringing in mobile gym kit on bikes for PTIs to travel round to try and make people do phys as the RAF won't walk to the gym....
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So when there is a direct or close hit to a hangar or aircraft carrier, RAF staff will not be expected to run, and/or carry wounded colleagues or kit to safety, and fight fires or floods etc?
Or "Right, listen up; there is no transport available but we need to move now and take our kit five miles across these fields........."
A person who cannot run or fit through small gaps or climb obstacles for example, would be a liability and a danger to their colleagues, and cause extra problems. (And there is no need for service personnel to be unfit or overweight. Discipline is a basic requirement in the forces, so self discipline would be a pre-requisit, I would have thought?).
Yes, autistic and Asperger's people are very good as engineers and tech crews - (Apple actively employ many of them) - but all military personnel need to be fit and healthy.
Or "Right, listen up; there is no transport available but we need to move now and take our kit five miles across these fields........."
A person who cannot run or fit through small gaps or climb obstacles for example, would be a liability and a danger to their colleagues, and cause extra problems. (And there is no need for service personnel to be unfit or overweight. Discipline is a basic requirement in the forces, so self discipline would be a pre-requisit, I would have thought?).
Yes, autistic and Asperger's people are very good as engineers and tech crews - (Apple actively employ many of them) - but all military personnel need to be fit and healthy.
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We Dinosaurs don't, apparently, understand.
It doesn't matter whether you are physically fit and capable so long as you identify as being physically fit and capable.
See how much easier it is in the New World?
We really do need to get on board!
(To be fair - the Military has been doing much the same for decades - remember the signs up on windows during exercises that stated "Sandbagged" Or the chair in the middle of the road with "Tank" written on it? This is much the same!
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It doesn't matter whether you are physically fit and capable so long as you identify as being physically fit and capable.
See how much easier it is in the New World?
We really do need to get on board!
(To be fair - the Military has been doing much the same for decades - remember the signs up on windows during exercises that stated "Sandbagged" Or the chair in the middle of the road with "Tank" written on it? This is much the same!
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Ultimately, a lot of this stuff came from post-modernism, and this infiltrated the college/university system. Ultimately, there were some academics: James Lindsay (Canada), Peter Boghossian (USA), and Helen Pluckrose (UK), who intentionally submitted flawed papers for peer review in certain humanities-fields. They were able to slip a rather large number through by effectively framing it in a way that appealed to the biases of the peer-reviewers, but should have been something that a reasonable person should have been able to realize was nonsense. While they planned to publish the end-result regardless of the outcome, a journalist stumbled onto the whole matter and it eventually became known as "The Grievance Studies Affair" or "Sokol Squared" (the former is probably better known).
That picture dates back to 2015/16 at RAF Marham when Harv Smyth became a 1-star. You can see him peddling the bike in the other picture on X.
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- goddam it. I knew it didn’t look quite right! 
in other news, I see an MDP Police Officer has successfully won their case…
Sacked MoD Police officer wins sexist fitness case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66950240
