Reconstitution

[vonGarvin]

I would offer that fitness is a command responsibility.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I would offer that fitness is a command responsibility.

It's a leadership responsibility.

I will tell you when my sailors saw me on the treadmill during the last deployment there was a sudden spark in my people going to the gym.

We, as leaders, need to understand they are watching us and will mirror our good and bad behaviours. Make good choices.

 

[Quirky]

I would offer that fitness is a command responsibility.

Fitness should be the cornerstone of any Armed Forces. Can't have fat obese troops.

You can only educate people so much on diet and fitness, it ultimately has to come down to personal responsibility. Just like cleaning your boots and keeping your uniform and kit in good working order.

 

[AKa]

A lot of folks will not make any significant effort to achieve more than the minimum until it has career implications, positive or negative.

 

[dapaterson]

We, as leaders, need to understand they are watching us and will mirror our good and bad behaviours. Make good choices.

Show up on time

Be in the correct uniform

Reinforce positive behaviors

Admit your own errors

 

[Halifax Tar]

Show up on time

Be in the correct uniform

Reinforce positive behaviors

Admit your own errors

Its really not hard, eh ?

 

[dapaterson]

Its really not hard, eh ?

And yet...

 

[Halifax Tar]

And yet...

Its rather shocking.

 

[stoker dave]

It's a leadership responsibility.

Agree. While decades old, my experience was:

1. On board ship, people who regularly exercised were routinely mocked for exercising. Chiefs, POs and senior officers never exercised. It was usually jr officers and jr ranks that made the effort. I hope that has changed.
2. I saw senior officers, when told they had to do their annual fitness test, just say they were too busy. That's not leadership.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Agree. While decades old, my experience was:

1. On board ship, people who regularly exercised were routinely mocked for exercising. Chiefs, POs and senior officers never exercised. It was usually jr officers and jr ranks that made the effort. I hope that has changed.
2. I saw senior officers, when told they had to do their annual fitness test, just say they were too busy. That's not leadership.

It's a very different culture now. PT, while still not as wildly undertaken as I would like, is supported.

 

[SupersonicMax]

I would offer that fitness is a command responsibility.

You are right. 100% (excluding those on MELs) of my unit passed their FORCE test and met the required standard yet there is no mandated PT. Is my unit failing? What is "fit enough" for you?

 

[Halifax Tar]

You are right. 100% (excluding those on MELs) of my unit passed their FORCE test and met the required standard yet there is no mandated PT. Is my unit failing? What is "fit enough" for you?

This is the crux. If they are meeting the standard, the fact that their tunic is made from a Princess Auto tarp doesn't matter.