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applegrove

(133,078 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:46 AM Nov 2025

More than 1/3 of ICE recruits are failing fitness tests.

More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, Nick Miroff reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff. https://theatln.tc/GHLzZnFh

The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) 2025-11-03T08:15:08.656Z
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More than 1/3 of ICE recruits are failing fitness tests. (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2025 OP
To be expected. The last engagement a lot of these guys fought at was Jan 6, 2021 marble falls Nov 2025 #1
15 pushups 32 sit-ups and a mile and a half at an 8:00/ mile pace underpants Nov 2025 #2
I'm 67 Aviation Pro Nov 2025 #3

underpants

(197,170 posts)
2. 15 pushups 32 sit-ups and a mile and a half at an 8:00/ mile pace
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:06 AM
Nov 2025

I’ve run marathons but I’m not a 8 minute mile guy. I guess I was in my early 20’s when I had to do 2 miles in just over 16 minutes to pass in basic training.


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Aviation Pro

(15,760 posts)
3. I'm 67
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:14 AM
Nov 2025

And you can see my exercise videos in the Fitness forum. I could probably join ICE, but why would I lower my standards?

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