Yeah I hate BLT's. I'm more of a chicken or turkey man and i hate tomatoes! BFT was the basic fitness test, 1.5 miles as a squad then 1.5 miles at your best time, depending on age you had 10 min 30 sec to complete on the solo run. CFT was Combat Fitness Test, 8 miles carrying 35lb in weight and your rifle in 2 hours, this varied as did the weight depending on which regiment you were with at the time. I'm sure that's all changed now though! It has all changed now....but they are bringing it back. It will be called OFT - Operational Fitness Test and should be hitting us in about a year. Lots of rumours as to what it actually entails, but on the trials, there was loads of lifting etc involved :o and 72% of people involved failed! Incidentally - the format of the new tests is in the hands of the lawyers - something to do with going against Health & Safety, and Manual Handling Guidelines.... who knows?