The Combat Fitness Test is a physical fitness test of the United States Marine Corps, and is used in complement to the USMC Physical Fitness Test. The British Army formerly used a test of the same name which is currently known as the Annual Fitness Test.
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.
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 lifts
98 pts for 88 lifts
97 pts for 87-86 lifts
96 pts for 85 lifts
95 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).
