2017
DOI: 10.7249/rr618
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Fit for Duty? Evaluating the Physical Fitness Requirements of Battlefield Airmen

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“…In fiscal year (FY) 2012, the Air Force, with RAND Corporation support, established a process to identify and validate gender-neutral tests, standards, and physical requirements for the seven specialties affected by the elimination of DCAR: Combat Controller (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT)-Enlisted, SOWT-Officer, 1 Special Tactics Officer (STO), and Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) (Robson et al, 2017). Collectively, these specialties are referred to as battlefield airmen (BA) specialties.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In fiscal year (FY) 2012, the Air Force, with RAND Corporation support, established a process to identify and validate gender-neutral tests, standards, and physical requirements for the seven specialties affected by the elimination of DCAR: Combat Controller (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT)-Enlisted, SOWT-Officer, 1 Special Tactics Officer (STO), and Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) (Robson et al, 2017). Collectively, these specialties are referred to as battlefield airmen (BA) specialties.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The PTSs not only address this deficiency but also are grounded in occupationally specific, operationally relevant tasks (i.e., CPTs) drawn from Robson et al (2017) and the AF-ESU's rigorous analysis of operator physical demands. 4 The resulting framework of CPTs, developed by AF-ESU with our guidance, provided the basis for developing PTSs that best approximate the physical demands of BA.…”
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“…In contrast, fitness standards developed with the goal of ensuring physical readiness to perform occupationally relevant, physically demanding tasks may use one standard for all personnel expected to perform those physically demanding tasks." 63 In another study RAND researchers argue that military services traditionally have set two types of physical standards. General fitness standards, used to promote overall health status and physical fitness regardless of occupation, need not be gender neutral.…”
Section: The Army Combat Fitness Testmentioning
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“…There is wide consensus that there are at least two main categories of physical fitness: (1) health-related fitness and (2) performance-based (or skill-based) fitness (Caspersen, Powell, and Christenson, 1985). This differentiation is also referred to as Tier 1 fitness and Tier 2 fitness by the AF Exercise Science Unit (ESU) and other military organizations (Palmer et al, 2000;Robson et al, 2017). Although we focus on Tier 1 fitness, we briefly introduce the concept of Tier 2 fitness, and its relationship to Tier 1 fitness, in this chapter.…”
Section: Definitions Of Physical Fitnessmentioning
confidence: 99%