British Army Combat Fitness Test (CFT)

its hard when you got short legs,over weight and blisters on your heels & carrying 22kg of kit !

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[Uncivilization]

@gamblemadman or right who knows.

[TheGunner1324]

@petemusic23 fucking weak australian bastard.

[saintdono321]

Hey guys get this, I was talking to a friend of mine and he has been in the Army. There's this water proof coat and it's called a Basher. Lol

[gamblemadman]

Couldn't just rotate the camera to the left no?

[SinDawg030]

well, time to get to the gym

[2paramortars]

HATS!

[210482fmj]

if you imagine those backapcks as normal camping rucksacks and the clothes they are wearign without army patterns you can see this differently. imagine goign to a dangerous country with a camping rucksack and rifle and pair of boots and a helmet. It doesn't sound very nice to me.

[dave3663]

When I was in the Army (1980's), we used to carry Platoon Weapons on the CFT - 84mm Carl Gustav plus ammo, 66mm, GPMG's etc - we even did the CFT in Respirators and full NBC once and we didn't have bergens in those days - just the old 58 pattern Webbing! Anyone who pushes themselves and serves in any of the three services is a Brother or sister to me for we have all tasted the same blood. I've no time for dissenters who are too chicken to serve their country.

[KTRecon]

Some people might find this easy now... but I promise you in traning you will of been hanging. Stop acting the biggin' people... we've all been licked at one point.

[kierans716]

My neck hurts.

[royalmarinecadet]

EASY it it fuck. Whoever sas it is EASY then you have not done it!

[inimicalrize]

@ClearTheWay01 roger that lol

[ihaterobbie123]

@DONNIrish Bergen sores are the result of poor harness, I give no sympathy to someone who can't wear a glorified rucksack.

That being said I'm not in the army yet, don't know how hard the rest of training will be but it can't be more than I think I'm capable of.

Might be joining the paras soon, hating university work. I'm good at it but I never enjoyed academia.

[DONNIrish]

wudnt say its easy,especially in the boots but i run and tab 14 miles,most of the first 7 miles is up hill in under 1hr 30 wif a 50lb bergen so most these lads mustnt be use to carrying weight over long distances,i know the pain that comes from bergen sores,but that pace was slow in my opinion,im sure that was there first try,bet they are like racing snakes now tho when they know how to run comfortably wif their bergens on their backs.

[joedon242]

@khug1990 yeah woulD AGREE WITH YOU BRITS REALLY TRAIN TOUGH our army is British trained and we are rugged even the reserves not much difference since we are asmall army we train alot recentlythough the americans start to get very fit compared to the old US army notice they are getting real rugged guess it's Iraq and Afghanistan

[xthexTxvirusx]

good stuff. 

[petemusic23]

wheres everyones rifle!! fukin pongos!



[andrewtran123]

0:07 that was she said

[khug1990]

@joedon242 agreed but dissagree on the bit about British millitary systems being just as rough... infact British army is proberbly the roughest and hardest to get into (:

[KTRecon]

This ya your fucking bread and butter, if you struggle on a CFT, you might aswell just leave the Army.

[joedon242]

want to go do a road run but shins still cramped need to go tomorrow though training level needs to increase

[joedon242]

what is wrong with you clowns talking about easy the British Military system is just as rough as any other thats worthwhile when you walking on patrol it's different from this as when on patrol you move slower to observe more and your body has more time to adjust to the weight on you while a cft as you hit the ground you going for 116 paces a minute minimum now try keeping up that for 8-9miles with full kit and weapon my company just did one Sunday did 9 mls in 1hr 35 mins

[luton1231]

cft is the easiest fitness test to do in the army, acft is more of a lick out

[juddyp0031]

Yeh I hated when I was there to lol but its what u have to do to be in the infantry lol

[d12dtwizzy]

@juddyp0031 you poor bastard i hated catterick look out for a sgt vaugn 1para dont know if hese still there the guy will smash u until u piss blood n shit comes out ur ears