Okay, so I'm at Basic right now and have been there since August 31st, (I got injured and just got back on platoon) so let me squash some rumours.
What they did so far to the format is that they took away week 0. Originally, when you got there, your first week didn't count and you got your "1" after being there for a full week. You went to 12 and then got your G. Now, they have taken away week 0, so you go to week 13 and get your G.
Farnham is still the usual 3 weeks right now, although they are for sure taken out a week or more, but the instructors themselves don't even know how much they're taking out.
The EXPRES test has been taken out for all platoons starting in January. This is because these platoons will all graduate AFTER April 1st, which is the date when the FORCE test becomes standard across the CF. Those platoons coming in in January will be doing a mixture between the FORCE & EXPRES. Pushups are now gone. I believe that the 4 stations will be the EXPRES shuttle, the sandbag drag, sandbag pickup (or whatever it's called), and the up down things. All the platoons currently at CFLRS graduate before April 1st and thus will be continuing with the EXPRES for their week 8 follow-up test.
Warrior platoon will be removed, as the FORCE test is all pass or fail. Most of those currently on warrior right now (so lovingly called "fat camp") simply had a problem with the pushups, so now there's a fuck ton of them waiting to join platoon, so if you get on platoon expect an influx of these people who have been waiting.
Once I get back in January I can give more updates once the first platoon comes in & I find out what's going on.
