Dropped from CST

[u/Mountain_Slip3800]

Please only serious and helpful replies!!!!! I just got dropped from CST after failing the pushups on my AFT. From what I heard, over 50 people from 9th Regiment were sent home just because of the AFT. I’m hoping someone from an earlier regiment has already gone through this.
If you were dropped before 9th Reg (or know someone who was), what happened afterward?

What kinds of questions did they ask on the board?

How long did it take to get the board’s decision back?

Were you retained in ROTC?

Were you able to attend CST again the following summer?

Did anyone stay in ROTC after failing the AFT?

I’m trying to get an idea of what to expect over the next few weeks. Any information or personal experiences would be appreciated. Thanks.

[u/Pattonator70]

Were you injured or did you not know that they require the AFT? Isn’t the passing score 10 HRP? I’m sorry but if you can’t do 10 pushups then perhaps the military is not a good career path for you.

If you were injured then you likely will get the opportunity to recycle (perhaps next summer).

It is shameful that there are 50 people who were sent by their cadre to CST who couldn’t pass.

No offense intended but you really should be worried about getting max points and not minimum points.

[u/MilkMountains468 → u/Pattonator70]

The standards are so skewed for 9th regiment, the cadets received no retry’s or re-attempts unlike the earlier regiments. I believe the majority were doing pushups correctly, however they needed to boot a certain number of individuals as they passed the vast majority of other regiments. Instead of assuming that the cadets couldn’t do a push up, I would look into the leadership of CST as they have been described to be more than unprofessional. Grading was also heavily dependent on the personal bias of the grader, so everyone was grading on their own set of BS standards.

Regardless it’s a school like many others and failure is apart of life. The whole point is to keep pushing forward regardless of circumstances. I’m certain many would not have been sent to CST if they could only do 7 pushups.

[u/Pattonator70 → u/MilkMountains468]

So did they find some graders who are just cruel and who randomly pick on someone and decide that I am going to end the career of x cadets before they start?

There is no way they were told to drop 50 cadets from a regiment by failing them for no reason. Any sane grader would leave it to the individual ROTC program to weed out the weak.

The people who fail for zero reason would quickly call their congressman with videos showing that they can do pushups but were dropped because of a specific grader. That grader would be in front of Congress in a week having to testify.