Navy Rating Physical Requirements

Navy combat arms occupations

PRP Guide-5B names Naval Special Warfare (SEAL and SWCC), Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Fleet Diving as the Navy’s combat arms professions. DoW Instruction 1308.03 lists them by officer designator, warrant officer designator and enlisted classification, as in this table.

Source: DoW Instruction 1308.03, Appendix 3A.2 (codes and titles as printed).

How Navy combat arms Sailors are tested

The Navy runs two fitness cycles a year, January to June and July to December. Active-duty combat arms Sailors take the standard Physical Fitness Assessment (body composition and the PRT) in the first and the Combat Fitness Assessment (body composition and the Combat Fitness Test) in the second. Reservists on active duty orders of a year or more do the same; other Reservists take one Combat Fitness Assessment a year.

On the PRT they need a combined score of at least 70 on its three events, scored by age with one table for men and women. The Combat Fitness Test has four events in one session, in physical training clothes. The Navy scores it the same way, and failing one event fails the whole test.

• 800-meter swim with finsTimed, in a pool, side stroke or combat side stroke, starting in the water. Then a 10-minute rest.
• Push-ups in 2 minutes, wearing 20 poundsA weight vest, plate carrier or secured rucksack. Then a 2-minute rest.
• Pull-ups, no time limit, wearing 20 poundsDead hang, chin over the bar, no kipping. Then a 10-minute rest.
• 1-mile run, wearing 20 poundsTimed, on a firm, flat surface.

Source: PRP Guide-5B (June 2026), Section 2.

SEAL and SWCC share one set of minimums; EOD technicians and Fleet Divers share another. The Navy SWCC page and the Navy Diver page list them by age group.

The July to December 2026 cycle is a one-year implementation period. The Navy records a failed Combat Fitness Test but takes no administrative action; the Sailor must join the Combat Arms Fitness Enhancement Program, the Navy’s remedial training program. After that period, the usual administrative rules for failures apply.

The Physical Screening Test for candidates

MILPERSMAN 1220-410 sets these minimums for an officer or enlisted contract in each program, and candidates must keep meeting them through the training pipeline. The test runs in one session in this order: a 500-yard swim, push-ups and curl-ups (two minutes each), pull-ups with no time limit, then a 1.5-mile run, with rests of 10, 2, 2 and 10 minutes between events.

* EOD candidates must finish the swim and the run in 21:00 or less combined, and neither may take longer than 12:30.

Source: MILPERSMAN 1220-410, CH-77, 3 December 2021, para 1b.

The swim is 500 yards (450 meters) in a pool. SEAL, SWCC, EOD and Navy Diver candidates must use side stroke or breaststroke with no overhand recovery; Aviation Rescue Swimmer candidates may also swim the crawl. MILPERSMAN 1220-410 says the minimums can change and that candidates should aim well above them.

Every other Navy rating

Every other rating takes the Physical Fitness Assessment twice a year on active duty, scored by age and sex. The Navy PRT standards page has every level and age group.