It will be administered by any command responsible for Soldier assessions - including Recruiting Command and Army Cadet Command - after the Soldier swears in but before he or she begins training. The test will be administered to everyone coming into the Army: officer, enlisted, active, Reserve and Guard. All Soldiers, male and female, must pass the same physical standards for their desired career field. OPAT scoring is gender neutral, he added. "It is designed to put the right people in the right jobs and to ensure we keep our recruits safe while doing so," he said. When it comes to recruiting, Brian Sutton, a spokesman for Army Recruiting Command, said the OPAT is not meant to turn away or weed people out. As with any reclassification action, the battalion-level or brigade-level career counselor will administer the OPAT. The Soldier's commander will be responsible for ensuring the OPAT is administered prior to approval of a reclassification, Bragg said. However, a Soldier whose new MOS falls within the same or a lower level physical demand category will not need to take the OPAT. When a Soldier wishes to reclassify to a new MOS, from the significant category to the heavy category, for example, he or she will need to take the OPAT. Under the OPAT, there are four physical demand categories, Bragg explained. Soldiers moving into more physically demanding MOSs also will have to meet the OPAT standard, said Jim Bragg, retention and reclassification branch chief for Army Human Resources Command. The OPAT also will be used to assess some Soldiers who are reclassifying into a different MOS.Īrmy Recruiting Command estimates that the OPAT will be administered to about 80,000 recruits and thousands of cadets annually. WASHINGTON (Army News Service) - On Tuesday, the Army began administering the Occupational Physical Assessment Test, or OPAT, to all recruits to assess their fitness for military occupational specialties.
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