 Today on the show we have the physical readiness program policy changes Nav Admin that comes out tomorrow. That's right we have it here now and we're going to break it all down for you so here's your first look. First up I know what some of you are thinking I don't like change and if it ain't broke don't fix it. Okay okay I know so why are we doing this? I spoke with CMP and he broke it down for me. This is based on fleet feedback the goal is taking the focus off just passing a test and putting the focus on long-term sustained health and fitness. As opposed to a system that was punitive in nature i.e. you pass or you fail and you get so many failures and then we process you out we don't really talk about better health this program is designed to talk and incentivize about better health for sailors. This program is all about being prepared year round instead of looking at sailors health twice a year commands are encouraged to look at sailors fitness day in and day out using tools like spot checks and command PT as a way of ensuring sailors are always ready spot checks aren't recorded for the PFA but the command can get you extra attention through the fitness enhancement program to get you back where you need to be next the BCA will be done three ways first it's the same height and weight tables you're used to outside of that you go to a single site abdominal circumference if you're under 39 inches for male or 35.5 for females you're good outside of that you get the body circumference measurement to determine body fat percentage which uses the DOD maximums sailors who fail the BCA will fail the PFA that's not a change but now those sailors will still test but i already failed why am i testing well it's part of diagnosing the problem the navy wants to see where you really stand then let's get you in FEP and get you back in standards and let's put a little pepper on that because starting in 2016 two failures in three years will initiate processing for administrative separation this is a change from the previous three failures in four years and with that narrow tolerance comes an initial grace period if you have one two or even three failures the navy will reset you to one going into 2016 that's right even if you have three failures and are being separated you can get a second chance to stay any admin separation for fitness failures will be stopped at the sailor's request if that sailor can pass a PRT before the first of december so that's the basic nuts and bolts of the changes coming out tomorrow there's more details in the nav admin and this is actually one of those ones you're going to want to read there are more changes coming the navy fitness down the line awards for superior performance fitness trackers nutrition programs but those are still in the works for more information check out my full interview with the chief enable personnel this is being rolled out early to make sure you're prepared when it goes into effect next year get your questions answered before that time you can write us usmpeople at gmail.com or just leave a comment we will be answering them that's it thanks for watching