PRT — Neptunus Lex

By lex, on June 27th, 2004

Ran the PRT (physical readiness test) last week. Didn’t care for it very much, never really have.

You only have to do it twice a year, but still.

There are three elements to the Navy PRT (four if you count a ludicrous flexibility drill – touch your toes: Good!). First you will do as many sit-ups as possible in two minutes, then as many push ups in the same time and finally you will run a mile and a half.

The scores required are age adjusted, say thankya. An ancient mariner like myself would have no problem merely passing, and thereby avoiding the humiliation of “mando” – mandatory, supervised recess under the sympathetic eye of some 22-year old petty officer who lifts pianos in his spare time, whenever he’s not jogging up to Los Angeles for a cup of starbucks.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

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— Neptunus Lex