By ADAM P. BARR

Staff Writer

Push-up until your arms are extended, sit-up until your elbows touch your thighs and run until your six laps are completed. These are some of this quarter's new Performance Fitness Test objectives for ROTC.

Each quarter Tech's ROTC detachment 305 has a PFT to determine the fitness of the cadets.

Capt. John Morris, commandant of cadets ROTC detachment 305, said the PFT is used in evaluation of the cadets.

"The detachment uses the PFT to measure the physical fitness of a cadet to Air Force standards and promote a healthy lifestyle," Morris said.

Each cadet has a level of fitness, determined by age and gender, to meet by Air Force standards.

Failing the PFT means the cadet will have to pass it at a later date, William Kirsty, the cadet vice wing commander and a senior mechanical engineering major, said.

"The cadets have the same standards to meet as active duty Air Force," Kirsty said.

Though not taking the PFT until next month the freshmen cadets are promising, Kirsty said.

"The cadets came in from their mile-and-a half run in an average of around 11 minutes, which is below many of their set times of completion," Morris said.

Morris also said the time constraints have changed as of late to conform to Air Force active-duty standards and are measured on a 100-point scale.

The running time requirement is less stringent, depending on the amount of push-ups or sit-ups the cadet accomplishes, Morris said.

"If a cadet does exceptionally well at push-ups, sit-ups and waist measurement, they have longer to complete the running test," Morris said.

Jason Woodley, an ROTC cadet wing commander and a senior history major, said the ROTC detachment had three perfect scores on the PFT.

"For the first time ever, I scored a perfect score," Woodley said.

"Not everyone passes on their first PFT of the school year.

"We are extremely proud of the ones who passed and know the ones [who] didn't will next time."

Matthew Smith, an ROTC cadet and a junior physics major, said the new PFT is made up of a different point system.

The system consists of 50 points for the run, 30 points for waist measurement, 10 points for push-ups and 10 points for sit-ups.

"For push-ups you have to do more than one a second to pass [that] portion," Smith said.

Smith said the PFT is very important in the effort to be an officer.

Constant determination by the cadets is effecting the outcome, and a chance of receiving a scholarship keeps them going.

"The test was hard and I hope every one made it," Smith said.