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Guardians . I'm Kellen Raleigh and this

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is everything 38 today I'd like to talk

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to you about the A C F T . As you know ,

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individual readiness is an essential

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component of unit readiness , and to

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that end , the Army has launched the

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CFT . As you might have heard , the 53

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point oh recently was introduced . In

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the last couple of weeks , you might

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have seen the changes on social media

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or heard about them from your

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leadership . One of the major changes

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is the introduction of the plank event ,

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which can be done as an alternate to

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the light touch event . Additionally ,

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there's a mandate for all soldiers to

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take the A C F T not later than 31

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August this year . I want everybody to

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understand that the A C F T right now

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is a diagnostic . You can take the hft

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as many times as you would like . It

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doesn't matter if you pass . It doesn't

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matter if you fail . All that matters

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right now is that you get out there ,

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you practice it , you have fun with it ,

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have competitions with it and do the

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best you can and taking with it The

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reason for it is the army needs to

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collect as much data as possible to

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determine the final form of the CFT .

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As it stands right now , the test is

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gender neutral and doesn't have any

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categories for age that could change in

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the future . We're not sure right now ,

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but the data collection that comes from

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you taking this test prior to 31 August

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will inform whether the Army does move

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into categories for gender or age .

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Bottom line . Get out there , take the

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test . Have fun with it . There's no no

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harm in not being successful with the

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tests . In fact , it will build your

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confidence the more you take it . So

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I'd like to encourage everyone to do it

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as much as possible .

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Good morning , first sergeant , because

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I'm awesome . What do you think about

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the 50 ? I freaking love it .

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Absolutely love it . I think the HCFC

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is definitely an improvement better

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than that . A pft . You incorporate

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more muscles rather than just the push

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ups and sit ups in the running event .

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I think it's more inclusive , you know ,

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in the beginning there was a problem

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with a lot of people who weren't able

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to past certain events . And , you know ,

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I think these changes they made kind of

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flows into , and it's come a long way

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since they started . The improvements I

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saw with the basically was them

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tailoring to people who whose body

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composition or their physical abilities

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couldn't compete with things like the

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leg tub or even possibly making a 12

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minute , two mile run . After all the

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events as they did , they did adjust

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the standards for the Sprint direct

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carry as well . So they're tailored to

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what soldiers can actually do . And I

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think that's possibly going to motivate

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the soldiers actually wants to do it .

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Um , as far as the plank event now in

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correlation with the legs like , I

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think that was a good thing . Um , but

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I also do like the fact that they upped

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the plank event to four minutes and 20

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seconds that way and motivate soldiers

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to just try to train for the legs . 15

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oh 345 Thanks for joining us for

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this episode of everything . 38 by

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