Originally Posted by
TheWeatherman
Before I left the Air Force, lazy Senior Commanders would actually request PT scores when racking and stacking promotion packages. Somebody getting a 98 on the PT test while you only got a 91 (passing is 75 and anything over 90 is considered excellent) could be the difference between a DP or not. And they wonder why they have a huge retention problem.
In the Army I saw it come down to who scored higher on the extended APFT scale, over 300 and requires a minimum score of 100 on each event. So you got a better than perfect APFT score but just not quite as good as the other guy 🤷🏻*♂️