Combat Fitness Test

United States Marine Corps

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

an 880-yard "Movement to Contact" run in boots and utility pants

two minutes of lifting a 30-pound ammo can over the head, earning 2 points for each number done in the time limit

the “Maneuver Under Fire” drill is part obstacle course, part conditioning, and part combat test:

10-yard sprint

15-yard crawl (low then high crawl)

hauling a simulated casualty using two different carries: drag and fireman's carry over 75 yards zigzaging through cones

sprint while carrying two 30-pound ammo cans over 75 yards through the same cones

throwing a dummy hand grenade into a marked circle 22.5 yards away (adding 5 seconds to total time if missed)

3 pushups and a sprint with the ammo cans to the finish line.

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):

MOVEMENT TO CONTACT. A perfect score of 100 is earned by completing this task in under 2 minutes and 45 seconds. One point is deducted for each additional 2 seconds up to a final time of 4 minutes and 13 seconds.

AMMO LIFT: A perfect score of 100 is achieved with 91 ammo can lifts. Points are deducted as follows:

99 pts for 90-89 lifts98 pts for 88 lifts97 pts for 87-86 lifts96 pts for 85 lifts95 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).

MANEUVER UNDER FIRE: A perfect score of 100 is earned by completing this task in under 2 minutes and 14 seconds (2.14). One point is deducted for each additional 2 seconds up to the longest time of 3 minutes and 58 seconds (3.58).

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

MOVEMENT TO CONTACT. A perfect score of 100 is earned by completing this task in under 3 minutes and 23 seconds. One point is deducted for each additional 2 seconds up to a final time of 5 minutes and 27 seconds (5.27).

AMMO LIFT: A perfect score of 100 is achieved with 60 ammo can lifts. Deducting points for this event is fairly straightforward: every lift less than 60 subtracts 1 point (except for lifts 52, 53, 38, 39, 23, and 24 which only subtract 1/2 a point).

MANEUVER UNDER FIRE: A perfect score of 100 is earned by completing this task in under 3 minutes and 1 seconds (3.01). One point is deducted for each additional 2 seconds up to the longest time of 5 minutes and 59 seconds (5.59).