{"id":44352,"date":"2020-12-04T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/12\/04\/marine-corps-cancels-cft-for-calendar-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:48:50","slug":"marine-corps-cancels-cft-for-calendar-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/12\/04\/marine-corps-cancels-cft-for-calendar-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps cancels Combat Fitness Test for rest of 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps has suspended the semi-annual Combat Fitness Test for the rest of the year in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, according to a social media post from the Marine Corps\u2019 Twitter account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps previously suspended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/04\/21\/top-marine-suspends-pft\/\" target=_blank>Physical Fitness Test<\/a> in April as the COVID-19 pandemic first forced the nation to come to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/09\/08\/corps-to-resume-pfts-and-cfts-after-covid-19-pause\/\" target=_blank>September the PFT<\/a> and body composition program was resumed, and Marines were expected to start conducting the CFT as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October a summer lull in new cases of the potentially deadly virus came to an end, and the nation started to see a rise in its weekly positive tests along with hospitalizations and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cases spiked with nearly 200,000 the week of Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spike caused the CDC to warn Americans away from visiting their families for Thanksgiving and caused the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Quantico, Virginia, to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, Anthony Fauci, the nation\u2019s leading infectious disease expert, told NBC, that American\u2019s ignoring the CDC recommendation to skip this year\u2019s Thanksgiving will lead to another spike in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll Marines who have not yet conducted the Combat Fitness Test will not do so this year due to the current nationwide #COVID19 environment,\u201d the tweet said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details about the CFT cancellation will come in a Marine Corps administrative message that has not been published yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CFT Cancelled<br><br>Just In: All Marines who have not yet conducted the Combat Fitness Test will not do so this year due to the current nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> environment. 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