India historically has bought military equipment from Moscow and has pressed the United States to waive sanctions required under a 2017 law for any nation that buys “significant” military hardware from Russia. Pakistan’s military relies on US equipment but the relationship soured during the two-decade US war in Afghanistan, with Washington believing that elements in Islamabad never severed support for the Taliban, who seized back power last year. “Very honestly, it’s a relationship that has neither ended up serving Pakistan well nor serving American interests well,” he said. US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon: Image: Tech.
“For someone to say, I’m doing this because it’s for counter-terrorism, when you’re talking of an aircraft like the capability of the F-16, everybody knows where they are deployed,” he said, referring to the fleet’s positioning against India. But on Sunday, speaking at a reception for the Indian community in the United States, Jaishankar said of the US position, “You’re not fooling anybody.” Jaishankar did not criticize Blinken in public. It’s in no one’s interests that those threats be able to go forward with impunity,” Blinken said. “Pakistan’s program bolsters its capability to deal with terrorist threats emanating from Pakistan or from the region.
It’s sustaining what they have,” Blinken told a news conference with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. “These are not new planes, new systems, new weapons. The top US diplomat defended a $450 million F-16 deal for Pakistan approved earlier in September, saying the package was for the maintenance of Pakistan’s existing fleet. The US-Pakistan alliance, born out of the Cold War, has frayed over Islamabad’s relationship with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. It was highly predictive of performance of the Combat Arms military occupational specialties, required no complex equipment, and covered a range of physical fitness domains.Ĭriterion measure task simulations Fitness Military Physical employment standards Pre-employment screening Validation.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday defended military sales to Pakistan after withering criticism from growing US partner India, which considers itself the target of Islamabad’s F-16 planes.īlinken met in the US capital with India’s foreign minister a day after separate talks with his counterpart from Pakistan. Test Battery 2 was selected as the Army's Occupational Physical Assessment Test. Three test batteries were developed based on different subsets of the predictor tests: Test Battery 1 consisted of the medicine ball put, squat lift, beep test, standing long jump, and arm ergometer (adjusted R 2=0.80-0.85, p<0.01) Test Battery 2 consisted of the medicine ball put, squat lift, beep test, and standing long jump (adjusted R 2=0.79-0.80, p<0.01) and Test Battery 3 consisted of the standing long jump, 1-minute push-ups, 1-minute sit-ups, 300m sprint, and Illinois agility test (adjusted R 2=0.55-0.71, p<0.01). Stepwise regressions were used to identify test batteries that significantly predicted performance on the criterion measure task simulations of the military occupational specialties. The purpose of this study was to identify a single combination of predictor tests that would predict physical performance on all of the criterion measure task simulations relevant to the Combat Arms military occupational specialties.ĭata from 838 (608 males, 230 females) soldiers who completed both the criterion measure task simulations of a military occupational specialty and up to 14 predictor tests were used in the development of the test batteries. The United States Army sought to create a legally defensible, scientifically validated physical pre-employment screening test.
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