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My first tour when the PRT was never taken seriously but viewed as just one more check in the box prior to deployment, we used to do this type of thing.
Keg at the finish line with the grill 10 feet beyond. Many of us actually ran with a beer in each hand.
Oh...and everyone passed whether they even took the prt or not. I mean, why should the guys manning the kegs & grill be penalized?
One year we took the prt with another squadron. Their best guy against our best guy. The winner's squadron all passed, the loser's actually had to take the friggin thing. We had a NCAA record setting distance runner as our guy......we had a great time throwing shit at the other squadron as they ran by....
I don't smoke, but I made it a point after the last PRT to light up a cigar. Oh, and since it just happened to be a No Fly Friday, we started drinking at 0930. Cheers to pt!
peachesnel
New Member
My little ensign brain looks at the PRT like this: put the damn check in the box and don't attract unwanted attention. My life will not be endangered if I run a 12:00 min mile instead of an 11:00. Until that changes... I'll be running at a comfy pace that gets me where I need to go and keeps the man off my back.
The hammer came down today. All hands PT M/W/F at 0645 with the aircrew hold guys and gals. All who were previously exempt (due to scoring outstanding or higher on the last PRT) are no longer off the hook. Hooyah.
Word to the wise: You are an officer now. Don't be a jackass in front of the aircrew or make wisecracks within earshot. Take the bad deal like a man (not a sexist statement, you know what I mean).
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
Fly an aircraft with FLM issues. You will learn what No-Fly-Friday is. Along with Might fly Mondays.
As opposed to boat hop fridays?
A few observations:
1. Go ahead and show up to FAM-1 in July at any of the CNATRA bases while being out of shape. Your performance in the aircraft will suffer dramatically if you're out of shape. Multiply that by a factor of 10 during dynamic phases of training (ACM, Weps, CQ, etc). Fast forward that to the fleet - try being a slug while sitting on deck in the Gulf waiting for the thumbs up from your trouble shooters before a six-seven hour mission. Being in good shape is good for your airmanship.
2. Being in good shape has a direct impact on the quality of sleep you get each night.
3. Tomorrow is the most popular day to start a work out routine. Tomorrow you will end up getting double scheduled. Cruise is the second most popular time to start a work out routine. In reality, if you're not already in the habit of working out (and willing to make time for it on the boat) when you start cruise, its unlikely you're gonna start on cruise.
4. When the civilian world sees you in uniform (whether its your too snug whites or a flight suit), you're representing everyone else in the military. The guy at the gas station will assume everyone else looks like you.
5. When you get to your fleet squadrons you will have a much greater impact on junior Sailors than you may now realize. They will walk like you, talk like you and dress like you. I'm not a PT nazi or a uniform nazi, but it is very very important for you as an officer and leader to be beyond reproach. Does this mean a zero defect mentality? No, but you ought to be shooting for that.
my two cents after spending nearly a month TAD at Safety School and seeing API studs every day.
1. Go ahead and show up to FAM-1 in July at any of the CNATRA bases while being out of shape. Your performance in the aircraft will suffer dramatically if you're out of shape. Multiply that by a factor of 10 during dynamic phases of training (ACM, Weps, CQ, etc). Fast forward that to the fleet - try being a slug while sitting on deck in the Gulf waiting for the thumbs up from your trouble shooters before a six-seven hour mission. Being in good shape is good for your airmanship.
2. Being in good shape has a direct impact on the quality of sleep you get each night.
3. Tomorrow is the most popular day to start a work out routine. Tomorrow you will end up getting double scheduled. Cruise is the second most popular time to start a work out routine. In reality, if you're not already in the habit of working out (and willing to make time for it on the boat) when you start cruise, its unlikely you're gonna start on cruise.
4. When the civilian world sees you in uniform (whether its your too snug whites or a flight suit), you're representing everyone else in the military. The guy at the gas station will assume everyone else looks like you.
5. When you get to your fleet squadrons you will have a much greater impact on junior Sailors than you may now realize. They will walk like you, talk like you and dress like you. I'm not a PT nazi or a uniform nazi, but it is very very important for you as an officer and leader to be beyond reproach. Does this mean a zero defect mentality? No, but you ought to be shooting for that.
my two cents after spending nearly a month TAD at Safety School and seeing API studs every day.
Why is it such a horrible thing to be PTing three days a week? Gonna rant for a second, so everyone who doesn't wanna hear it can go ahead and stop here. 
It is not that hard to follow a direction. If the PTO tells you not to talk, or to sound off louder, or to say 'A-pool' or whatever when you do a pushup, just do it and do it quietly. Chiefs train their enlisted sailors to follow directions quickly, so why should we not hold ourselves to the same (or higher) standard? It's an embarrassment to everyone else when you start laughing or chatting up your buddy, and believe me there were people who were plenty embarrassed on our behalf from outside the A-pool.
I'm not gonna knock people who can't PT long as they try hard, but for those cool guys who think they don't have to participate because they're better than everyone else, at least act like your IQ is bigger than your waist size when you're in the block.
/rant
It is not that hard to follow a direction. If the PTO tells you not to talk, or to sound off louder, or to say 'A-pool' or whatever when you do a pushup, just do it and do it quietly. Chiefs train their enlisted sailors to follow directions quickly, so why should we not hold ourselves to the same (or higher) standard? It's an embarrassment to everyone else when you start laughing or chatting up your buddy, and believe me there were people who were plenty embarrassed on our behalf from outside the A-pool.
I'm not gonna knock people who can't PT long as they try hard, but for those cool guys who think they don't have to participate because they're better than everyone else, at least act like your IQ is bigger than your waist size when you're in the block.
/rant
We will see tomorrow, A-pool's first day of PT with the aircrew..
Hopefully, people act right and come motivated.
Hopefully, people act right and come motivated.
