US Army cadence calls change with the times
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ExSarge said:
I said it before, I'll say it again. The CF has its own traditions, there is no need to import something from south of the boarder. The bottom line is, are you in shape to perform your assigned mission? If the answer is yes, then who cares how you got that way! Personally I don't care if you run down the road butt naked swinging a dead weasel around your head (just don't do it on my street!). If that helps to keep you in shape, go for it. Just don’t ask me to join you!
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GAP said:
There you go. If you have something new to add.......... well, you know the drill.
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normally, I don't post in a closed thread, but that shit is just too funny to let pass without comment! I'd pay good money to watch that!ExSarge said:
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« Sent to: recceguy on: Today at 10:57:02 »
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I just wanted to give ya'll some intel on PT runs int he US Army, but I found this thread after it'd already been locked down. So, I'm forwarding this to Recceguy to paste in.
In the old days, we pretty much ran in formation every day for PT and sang jody cadences along the way. Back in the late 80's though, the Army came out with a new physical fitness program that advocated units develop a PT program based on their combat tasks. For instance, in the Blackhorse, in addition to our regular PT, one day a week in garrison, we'd do what they called "tanker PT." It was circuit training and each station was something to do with our MOS. One of the stations was a shuttle run with a 120mm dummy round, another was carrying a section of track with your crew, and other stuff like that.
The Army is big on ability group runs, which are based on your Physical Fitness Test run times. They form up the Soldiers into these groups, each of which is led by an NCO and they basically do a timed run at the fastest runner's pace in their group.
In the infantry, we would do a hump each week in garrison, anywhere from 8 to 25 miles, depending on where we were in the training cycle. We usually did humps on Fridays. When we did our short range planning in company training meetings, we hammered out a PT schedule just the same way we did the training schedule. So, each week, an annex to the training schedule was attached that showed what each platoon had locked on for daily PT. My commander and I would do PT with different platoons each day to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to.
In most units, once a month they do battalion PT. These are the long slow runs where companies form in mass and you shuffle along at a jog singing cadence. This is the stereotypical Army PT, although in reality, it's not the norm anymore.
« Sent to: recceguy on: Today at 10:57:02 »
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I just wanted to give ya'll some intel on PT runs int he US Army, but I found this thread after it'd already been locked down. So, I'm forwarding this to Recceguy to paste in.
In the old days, we pretty much ran in formation every day for PT and sang jody cadences along the way. Back in the late 80's though, the Army came out with a new physical fitness program that advocated units develop a PT program based on their combat tasks. For instance, in the Blackhorse, in addition to our regular PT, one day a week in garrison, we'd do what they called "tanker PT." It was circuit training and each station was something to do with our MOS. One of the stations was a shuttle run with a 120mm dummy round, another was carrying a section of track with your crew, and other stuff like that.
The Army is big on ability group runs, which are based on your Physical Fitness Test run times. They form up the Soldiers into these groups, each of which is led by an NCO and they basically do a timed run at the fastest runner's pace in their group.
In the infantry, we would do a hump each week in garrison, anywhere from 8 to 25 miles, depending on where we were in the training cycle. We usually did humps on Fridays. When we did our short range planning in company training meetings, we hammered out a PT schedule just the same way we did the training schedule. So, each week, an annex to the training schedule was attached that showed what each platoon had locked on for daily PT. My commander and I would do PT with different platoons each day to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to.
In most units, once a month they do battalion PT. These are the long slow runs where companies form in mass and you shuffle along at a jog singing cadence. This is the stereotypical Army PT, although in reality, it's not the norm anymore.
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