So far, the Army is not considering alternate events for its new fitness test

If the theory is that the purpose of this test is to determine if a person is physically qualified for combat, and the philosophy is going to be that if you can't pass it, you can't stay in the Army, then it makes sense to not have alternative events. But IMO, if the point of this test is to determine if you can go to war, then it should be a pass/fail event. There shouldn't be a point scale beyond what the standard for going to war is, and there shouldn't be additional promotion points or other benefits of scoring higher. That's not the purpose of the test. You don't get extra promotion points for being an extra percentage point below the body fat standard. You either meet the standard or you don't. So you are either physically capable of deploying or you aren't. A person who throws a weight over their shoulder farther than another isn't "more" deployable than the other who meets the standard. Make it pass fail.

This is going to be one heck of a testing. Glad that I'm retired.

Army: “The pool of potential recruits is shrinking and no one wants to pin!”

Also Army: “Yeah we broke you by deploying you every other year and running you into the ground. F you and our experience. Have a nice day.”