Senior leaders conduct Expert Physical Fitness Assessment
The 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command’s senior leadership and the subordinate command teams conducted an Expert Physical Fitness Assessment (EPFA) on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Jan. 13, 2026.
The EPFA consists of a one-mile run, 30 dead-stop push-ups, 100-meter sprint, 16 sandbag lifts, 50-meter farmers-carry with two 40-pound water cans, a 25-meter-high crawl, a 25-meter three-five second rushes, and another one-mile run. The EPFA must be completed within 27.5 minutes for expert infantry badge or 30 minutes for Expert Soldier Badge and Expert Field Medical Badge.
“If we can do it, then your Soldiers can do it,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Kirk, the command’s senior enlisted advisor. “All of you now know firsthand what the test consists of - it can help your formations develop rigorous training plans for the ESB or the EIB.”
The 20th CBRNE Command is a deployable, Joint Task Force-capable headquarters, that coordinates and executes theater-wide Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) and CBRNE operations in support of the Combined Joint Force Land Component Command, Combined Joint Task Force, and other supported commanders.
The command also supports Combatant Commanders by providing technical enablers – including CBRN, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), nuclear and CWMD, intelligence, and theater validation level laboratories – to assess, protect against, and mitigate the full range of CBRN and explosive hazards at the theater level. When contested, the 20th provides expertise to plan and conduct CWMD operations while coordinating technical reach back in coordination with Department of the Army, joint, interagency, and international partners.