Those who score an outstanding on one PFA cycle are authorized to wear a badge on their fitness suit, when it comes out next year. Rewards for maxing out your PFA are two-fold. Then, in May, Mabus announced there would be changes this year that included fitness standards tied to the job and mission reqirements the new waist-only tape test, BCA spot-checks, expanded gym hours and a new Outstanding Fitness Award, an idea that had been batted around since 2005. Late last year, the Navy Personnel Command instituted a CFL Navy Enlisted Classification, to help commands keep better track of their CFL's qualifications and to help in the search for new fitness coordinators. Chief among them were rethinking or canning the BCA, making CFLs better at taking measurements, more flexible gym hours and incentives for those who consistently score an outstanding on their tests, ideas the Navy took to heart. Navy Times readers then responded to a call-out with their suggestions for improving the PFA. Officials acknowledged the list but denied that any of those proposals were hitting the fleet. The suggestions included doing away with "bad-day" retests for the PRT, mandatory tape tests and random BCAs throughout the year. The discussion came to a head last summer, when a list of PFA proposals drafted at a Command Fitness Leaders summit circulated through the ranks and caught fire. In a May speech at the Naval Academy, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus likened it to a twice-a-year crucible, where sailors go to extreme measures to get within standards.
The Navy's PFA has been the bane of many a sailor's existence for years. "We are going to bring back levels of excellence because it's a way of measuring progress and for CO 's to recognize sailors for their fitness level or improvements in their evaluations if they choose to," Moran said.
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