OK this is just a spot of curiosity on my part, but I was wondering what the minimum physical fitness requirements for the various Military branches around the world are, and I figured this would be the best place to endulge that curiosity. I'm mainly interested in finding out who different Forces compare to eachother, and how the standards may have changed over the years.
Anyway, these are the standards for the ADF, you'll note they talk about a multi-stage fitness test, which is just a standard shuttle run of 20 metre shuttles in a decreasing time for each level:
Army general entry
Male - 15 push ups, 45 sit ups (feet held), score of 7.5 on the MSFT (Total of 1120m in 6:30), Female - All the same except only need to do 8 push ups.
Army Special Forces
30 Push-ups, 60 Sit Ups, 10 on the MSFT. No women can serve in SOCOMD as far as I know, except maybe in the 171st Aviation Squadron.
Navy/Air Force general entry
score of 6.5 on the MSFT (pretty much run a little under 1km in a bit under 6 minutes).
Navy Clearance Diver applicants have to meet the Army male standard, Air Force Defence Guards are expected but not required to be able to do 40 push ups (without their feet being held by anything) 10 chin ups and run 2.4km in less than 10 minutes before they join the Air Force. Evidently this has something to do with them being semi-elite as they recieve counter Special Forces training.
So, yeah, you really don't have to be very fit at all to get into the ADF. Those are the standards that you need to meet to demonstrate that you're fit enough to start training without endangering yourself, I know for a fact that SF applicants need to be able to do better than that to have a real chance of getting in straight out of their civvies. So, how do other countries shape up?
Anyway, these are the standards for the ADF, you'll note they talk about a multi-stage fitness test, which is just a standard shuttle run of 20 metre shuttles in a decreasing time for each level:
Army general entry
Male - 15 push ups, 45 sit ups (feet held), score of 7.5 on the MSFT (Total of 1120m in 6:30), Female - All the same except only need to do 8 push ups.
Army Special Forces
30 Push-ups, 60 Sit Ups, 10 on the MSFT. No women can serve in SOCOMD as far as I know, except maybe in the 171st Aviation Squadron.
Navy/Air Force general entry
score of 6.5 on the MSFT (pretty much run a little under 1km in a bit under 6 minutes).
Navy Clearance Diver applicants have to meet the Army male standard, Air Force Defence Guards are expected but not required to be able to do 40 push ups (without their feet being held by anything) 10 chin ups and run 2.4km in less than 10 minutes before they join the Air Force. Evidently this has something to do with them being semi-elite as they recieve counter Special Forces training.
So, yeah, you really don't have to be very fit at all to get into the ADF. Those are the standards that you need to meet to demonstrate that you're fit enough to start training without endangering yourself, I know for a fact that SF applicants need to be able to do better than that to have a real chance of getting in straight out of their civvies. So, how do other countries shape up?
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