Unit PT - Best Practices

[daftandbarmy]

Removing the requirement for individual testing is silly, group testing has some merit behind it. However there will always be the necessity to ensure all mbrs are doing their part.

I don't advocate removing individual testing, just augment it with more reality based team level tests, which are currently totally absent from our battle fitness training inventory.

As a Royal Marine NCO once told me: "The graveyards are full of people who perfectly met the 'minimum standard'."

 

[tomahawk6]

Worked for a general once who insisted on weekly road marches for all units because he saw the value due to his wartime experience in Korea.He was almost fanatical about it.I saw him rip into a Captain who had fallen out. Later he was found to have MS.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Worked for a general once who insisted on weekly road marches for all units because he saw the value due to his wartime experience in Korea.He was almost fanatical about it.I saw him rip into a Captain who had fallen out. Later he was found to have MS.

I lashed into a Royal Marine 2Lt for similar reasons once. He had malaria. We carried on

 

[Blackadder1916]

I lashed into a Royal Marine 2Lt for similar reasons once. He had malaria. We carried on

Probably didn't take his prophylaxis as directed . . .  self inflicted . . .  serves him right.

 

[dapaterson]

Probably didn't take his prophylaxis as directed . . .  self inflicted . . .  serves him right.

He was halfway there... just didn't like diluting his gin.

 

[daftandbarmy]

He was halfway there... just didn't like diluting his gin.

Sadly, he was one of our only teetotalers. He'd grown up in Kenya on a gigantic farm.

Old Macdonald had malaria... ee.. I... ee I.. oooooo