Roughly one-third of airmen at Aviano AB, Italy, failed the Air Force’s new fitness assessment in July. Out of 319 airmen who took the test, 104—or 32.6 percent—didn’t pass. TSgt. Adam Salonish, Aviano’s fitness assessment cell noncommissioned officer in charge, said the failure rate “is, in reality, lower” than expected. “The expected rate was 35 to 40 percent,” he said. “However, nearly 33 percent is still high, and the base is doing as much as possible to bring it down.” The Air Force’s new fitness program took effect July 1. Airmen now are required to take the PT test twice a year instead of once annually. They must earn a minimum amount of points in each section—aerobic, waist measurement, sit-ups, and push-ups—to pass. Doing proper push-ups appears to be the biggest challenge. (Aviano report by A1C Katherine Windish)
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA