Army PFT and ROTC Eligibility

[ShadowMist21]

My daughter started her freshman year on a national 3 year AD scholarship, which meant she would need to pass her physical fitness test prior to contracting sophomore year, however, at her school the school covered room and board all four years even for 3 year winners, but she had to pass the test to get that benefit and she trained during the summer and had no problem passing. However, there was another nursing slot not filled by scholarship recipients and 3 or 4 other nurses showed up as freshman to compete for that spot (it was a nursing mission spot for 2020, and at the time that was an allocated campus base scholarship, things change though so do not know if it still works that way) One of those that showed up, another female, did not do well on her first APFT (this was in fall 2016) She only completed 3 push-ups and did not finish the run because she threw up half way through. I am not saying this to shame her, but to tell you she was the one who won the 3 year campus based scholarship and is currently a 2LT nurse in the US Army. She worked really hard her freshman year and she excelled at fitness the rest of her time there. And you have time to train and pass in the Fall.

DoDMERB is a whole other issue, the fracture that did not heal right might be a barrier to contracting, or you might be able to overcome it, it isn't a big enough of a reason to stop your goals and not try though!

That's quite some improvement for someone to go from basically no physical fitness to excelling.....I hope to do the same as I'm working away from my junk food raids and spare tire.

 

[VisionofConflux]

My daughter started her freshman year on a national 3 year AD scholarship, which meant she would need to pass her physical fitness test prior to contracting sophomore year, however, at her school the school covered room and board all four years even for 3 year winners, but she had to pass the test to get that benefit and she trained during the summer and had no problem passing. However, there was another nursing slot not filled by scholarship recipients and 3 or 4 other nurses showed up as freshman to compete for that spot (it was a nursing mission spot for 2020, and at the time that was an allocated campus base scholarship, things change though so do not know if it still works that way) One of those that showed up, another female, did not do well on her first APFT (this was in fall 2016) She only completed 3 push-ups and did not finish the run because she threw up half way through. I am not saying this to shame her, but to tell you she was the one who won the 3 year campus based scholarship and is currently a 2LT nurse in the US Army. She worked really hard her freshman year and she excelled at fitness the rest of her time there. And you have time to train and pass in the Fall.

DoDMERB is a whole other issue, the fracture that did not heal right might be a barrier to contracting, or you might be able to overcome it, it isn't a big enough of a reason to stop your goals and not try though!

By "time to train," are you referring to time during the academic year? Just curious. Also, that's awesome for both your daughter and that other female cadet!

 

[Dckc88]

By "time to train," are you referring to time during the academic year? Just curious. Also, that's awesome for both your daughter and that other female cadet!

My daughter started training during her senior year and then stepped it up during the summer, which was a challenge because she was work off in a kitchen as a volunteer at a youth camp and didn’t have a lot of time, but still got it done. For her classmate, she worked hard during the school year. She had not applied for a national scholarship and wasn’t an athlete, so this was a new way of life for her and she worked hard. Physical fitness can be attained pretty quickly with consistency and dedication!

 

[MohawkArmyROTC]

I'm wondering the same thing, but I guess we'll see.

ACFT is being challenged right now, that is why Mohawkarmy said it is in Limbo, so it is not allowed to be used for the record. My daughter did the ACFT at Infantry BOLC the last 5 months as part of her training but not as part of her assessment, and therefore it was not officially recorded because it's validity is being challenged.

@Dckc88 is correct. The Army is on the third iteration of the ACFT, but it is being held up by Congress. It is currently being used in as a diagnostic. Currently the only test of record the Army has at the moment is the OPAT. Previous passing record APFT scores are now good for the next few years. The CCFA is what is being used to contract cadets as their is not a test of record to be used. The Army is planning for the ACFT to be the test of record starting in FY23. Units are still encouraged to take Diagnostic ACFTs in order to provide more data for fine tuning.