I’m curious dogmush, why do you predict a flusterlcuck?
A variety of reasons. The new test needs a bunch of expensive equipment, will take longer to administer, and needs equipment to train for.
Also, more relevant to this thread, when they normalized the minimum scores for gender and age, the kinda middle aged female run scores all got faster, with more crap in front of it. so there's going to be a lot of mid 30's and up Sr. NCO's and O4-O5's that go from having to do 38 situps, 13 pushups, and 2 miles in ~23 min to A dead lift, Chucking a medicine ball, 10 pushups, a 400M shuttle run a weird pullup and 2 miles in 21 min.
Coupled with the new test having no provisions for permanent medical profiles, there's going to be a fair amount of folks men and women, that all of a sudden can't meet standards. With all the whining that will involve.
I've already built a pullup bar and bought a medicine ball to start getting ready, but anecdotally there's a bunch of soldiers with the attitude of "If the Army doesn't provide me the stuff they can't make me meet the new standard". Which, honestly, shows a breathtaking lack of understanding about the military in general for folks that have been in 10-15 years.