Combat Fitness Test

For British Army test, see Annual Fitness Test.

The Combat Fitness Test is a physical fitness test of the United States Marine Corps, and is used in complement to the USMC Physical Fitness Test. The British Army formerly used a test of the same name which is currently known as the Annual Fitness Test.

United States Marine Corps

U.S. Marine holding two 30-pound ammunition cans on his shoulders during part of the super physical combat fitness test on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, June 17, 2009.

In the Marine Corps, the Combat Fitness Test has three events:[1]

Major General Vaughn Ary, Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant, displays combat war face while lifting 30 lb ammo can 100 times during combat fitness test on December 4, 2011

This test was implemented in mid-2008 by Commandant of the Marine Corps James T. Conway as a more combat oriented version of, but supplement to, the Physical Fitness Test.

Scoring

Marine Corps CFTs are scored the following way for males (age 17-26):[2]

99 pts for 90-89 lifts
98 pts for 88 lifts
97 pts for 87-86 lifts
96 pts for 85 lifts
95 pts for 84 lifts

Then the cycle begins again (roughly it is -5 pts for every 7 lifts less than 91 lifts, down to 33 lifts).

Marine Corps CFTs are scored the following way for females (age 17-26):

References

  1. [http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/61/Docs/HQ%20Svc%20BN/MCPFP%2017-26[1].pdf CFT] on hqmc.marines.mil
  2. [http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/61/Docs/HQ%20Svc%20BN/MCPFP%2017-26[1].pdf CFT scoring on marine website] on hqmc.marines.mil

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