In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, U.S Army troops training to serve as instructors participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, N.C. The Army National Guard is looking for nearly 5,000 fitness instructors and buying roughly $40 million in workout equipment in the next seven months to help its soldiers meet new physical fitness standards being set by the military service. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press
WASHINGTON
– The Army National Guard is looking for nearly 5,000 fitness
instructors and buying roughly $40 million in workout equipment in the
next seven months to help its soldiers meet new physical fitness
standards being set by the military service.
But
even as commanders begin delivering the new 10-pound medicine balls,
pull-up bars and hexagon barbells, they also worry whether America's
330,000 citizen soldiers will have the time and the drive to master the
new, more grueling Army fitness test.
"For
those who are already doing well on their physical fitness test and
they have the routine figured out, I think they're going to transition
to this new test without any issues," said Army National Guard Lt. Col.
Brian Dean, who is responsible for implementing the new test across the
Guard. "People who are in those parts of their life where they're still
kinda struggling to make the right time for fitness and do fitness in
the right ways — this will feel significant."
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