Physical Fitness Training Navy

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Mandatory Daily Physical Fitness Training in the Navy

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Mandatory Daily Physical Fitness Training in the Navy
The US Navy is flushing millions of dollars down the drain each year due to qualify sailor in vital jobs being discharged out of the Navy prematurely because of Annual Physical Readiness Test failures. To combat this problem there should be mandatory physical fitness training on a daily routine at all commands. By implementing a mandatory physical fitness program this should reduce the number of sailors being discharged
According to the analysis published in Center for Naval Analyses, it cost the Navy $49,290 to train an electronics technician that works on a nuclear-powered submarine or surface warfare ship and cost about $24,301 to replace a first term Sailor (Garcia, Joy, Reese 1998). That is millions tax payer dollars being wasted every year and has forced the military to really take a good look at its Physical Fitness Readiness policy. At several large Navy commands, senior leadership continue to make this argument an uphill battle, they are against a mandatory daily physical fitness program, because it interferes with productivity and shouldn’t be conducted during normal working hours. Commands do not take physical training seriously enough, and leaders ' attitudes put their sailor’s health at risk and damaged physical readiness, according to the analysis by the Naval Audit Service (Stewart2 013).
MANDATORY DAILY PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING IN THE NAVY
Senior leadership should leads, train, motivate, and inspire junior sailors to do well in life and in the Navy, by implementing a daily mandatory physical fitness program for all ranks junior and senior no matter what the op-tempo is, are great boosters for morale and helps sailors be more prepared for the physical demands of their jobs. Wasting money processing sailors out of the Navy prematurely is not an option and costs tax payer millions of dollars each year. This way of doing business in this fiscal challenging environment are sure ways on getting vital programs cut from the