Latest Army Combat Fitness Test Accounts for Gender, Negates Job-Specific Requirements
Mil & Intel
By James R. Webb | March 23, 2021
On April 1 the Army is poised to roll out a third version of its Combat Fitness Test. The latest iteration is removing job-specific standards, instead evaluating soldiers along gender-based percentiles. Many have criticized the move, including the Army’s first female infantry officer, Capt. Kristen Griest.
“It is wholly unethical to allow the standards of the nation’s premiere fighting units to degrade so badly, just to accommodate the lowest-performing soldiers,†Griest wrote in a Feb. 25 opinion piece for the Modern War Institute at West Point.
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