AGENCY PHYSICAL FITNESS REQUIREMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 24, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDA 83-0311/24
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Building Planning Staff, OL
2 4 MAY 1983
FROM: James H. McDonald
Associate Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Agency Physical Fitness Requirements
1. Attached herewith is a copy of a recent memorandum submitted to the
Executive Director by the Director of Personnel regarding the physical fitness
requirements of the Agency. You will note that there is detailed rationale
which sustains the need for physical fitness facilities to support the official
mission of the Agency.
2. In view of the attached, you should provide for a 5,000 square foot
physical fitness room in the new building with separate shower facilities for
men and women as well as an indoor running track, if at all feasible, similar
to that which currently exists in this building.
3. You should also explore the possibi.lity of converting one of the
loading docks into handball/squash courts. This would be accomplished after
the new loading docks are constructed.
4. After the construction of the new building is completed along with
the parking areas and the grading of the entire area is finished, we will con-
sider the possibility of establishing a Parcourse.
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MAY 1333
FOR: Executive Director
TE(ROUGH. Deputy Director for Administration
Director of Medical Services
FROM: Janes- X. Glenmi
Director of Personnel
SUPJECT: Agency Physical Fitness Requirements
1. In recent months, we. have reviewed a proposal to include a physical
fitness center in the new building. During the course of the review, we
have examined the physical fitness requirements for Agency personnel. Based
upon that examination, I have determined that many Agency positions require
personnel to maintain a high level of physical fitness to enable such personnel
to perform their official duties, further.lore, existing fitness facilities
are inadequate to allow such personnel to maintain the required level of
physical conditioning.
2. In our review, we have e, au!ined the Factor Evaluation System . (FES)
insofar as it relates to determining the physical requirements of Agency
positions. The FES system is a means by which PMMCD evaluates nine factors
that must be addressed in Agency position descriptions. One of the nine
factors measured under FES is "physical demands." Ho-.ever, because this
factor normally is the least significant of the nine factors used to determine
position grade levels, position descriptions do not adequately address the
full physical activity for Agency positions. For instance, a position may
r equire significant amounts of physical activity, but because this one
factor does not carry significant enoug :weight to add a grade to a position,
the position description may not describe all of the physical activity
inherent in that position.
3. Although position descriptions may not describe in full the nature
Of the physical activity` required there are many -positions require
that personnel filling the -,e positions maintain a high level of physical
fitne s. Pursuant to my deities as Director of Personnel in the CIA, and
medical
^~i i.er consulting with appropriate J_ir_,~ onagers and pOr SOIL'lel, I
have concluded that certain Agency positions require a high level of physical
fitness : :including positions which hay e ?i-paresponsibilities;
positions -requiring operation 1 traiiliri including Career Trainees; positions
1?.hich r ILl1:re tI? employee to be qualified for TDi' standby; arid positions on
the PCT protective staff. Persons in each of these categories are required
`.U l~. a:' [?t l I n a high level of j%llysical L 1 tne_ss ? In the, absence of such levels
of t1~1\' ical fitness, the ability OF these employees to perEcrm. their ass fined
lilies C:r)ald ile se _~ o s i \' impair Eel's.
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Persons engaged in paramilitary activities are required to perforn:
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activities similar to those performed by members of the U. S. Armed Forces,
but very often. under conditions which are even more adverse than those
experienced by all but a very few of the elite combat forces. These activities
can include parachute jumping, scuba diving, and evasive night maneuvers.
Such activities can be undertal n only by persons who are in peak physical
condition.
5. Persons who are engaged in operational training, including Career
Trainees, similarly require a high level. of physical fitness because such
persons are required to be cross-trained in a hide variety of disciplines,
often including paramilitary activities. The ability to perform a wide
variety of operational activities. requires that training be extremely rigorous
and involve situations which, while not con only experienced by all operational
personnel,' .could require prolonged physical exertion at short notice
6. Persons who are an TDY standby must be available at a Moment's
notice, to. go to the four corners of the world. The Agency's travel requirements,
particularly TDY travel requirements, are often of an emergency nature and
can be in a vide va' ` often with limited available
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employees must be in top physical shape in order to carry out the diverse
missions on which they are sent.
7. Persons assigned to the D.,I protective staff, similar to members of
the U. S Secret Service, must be physically equipped to meet a wide array of
possible threats to the life of the Director and Deputy Director. They must
operate under enormous pressure for long periods of time at the utmost
levels of alertness and vigilance. To sustain the strains involved, and- to
ir_stant.ly. react to threats in an effective a-:a measured way requires personnel
in peak physical condition.
8. In summary, personnel filling the positions described above must
na:intain a high let el of physical fitness at all times to effectively perform
their official duties. I have determined that fitness facilities currently
available at seadGuarters are inadequate to allo.~ these personnel to maintain
the I equired level of physical. condi tion:iing. Existing facilities are extremely
overiro-.%,ded, ,-,all-ling it inconvenient if not impossible for employees to rely
in any great measure on the use of these facilities to remain physically
fit. Therefore, I have concluded that physical fitness facilities should be
constructed in the now building. The number of CI jobs requiring high
levels of physical conditions provide- a more than sufficient basis to
support construction of such facilities.
9. 1}!'l. issu has been discussed in detail. with the DDA and he is
prepared to assL1me respOnSibbl.lity :IOr h ph;"sienna fitness facilities within
the 0 .race of Services.
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SUBJECT: Agency Physical Fitness RequTi c i ents
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Distribution:
Original- Addressee
1 - Executive Registry
2 - DDA
1 - D/Pers
1 DD/Pers/SP'
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SUBJECT: Meeting to Discuss Concepts for the Exercise Room in the New
Building - 17 August 1983
Clinical Activities Division, OMS
Clinical Activities Division, OMS
New Building Project Office, OL
New Building Project Office, OL
1. The purpose of the meeting was to alert the office of Medical Services
(OMS) that they needed to develop some general concepts on the exercise
facility for the new building so that the A&E firm could provide a preliminary
design layout for our approval. Prior to the meeting, met
with who is currently in charge of the exercise room.
provided the statistics on the use of the room.
2.I provided the following general concepts that they
would propose to implement in the New Building exercise room:
a. Staffing: OMS has budgeted for two additional slots for this
activity and would hope to have one slot filled this fall. The two slots
would be filled by fully qualified exercise physiologists. 0 would
continue to staff the current exercise room and the two new slots would
staff the new room.
b. There will be two major programs supported, one being a general
exercise program for all employees and the other program will be to serve
the unique needs of components (i.e.nd DCI Security), that have
physical standards built into their Jo requirements.
c. With the exception of the shower and locker rooms, which will have
separate men and women facilities, the entire exercise program will be
coed operation.
d. We should plan on approximate) using both facilities
(old and new) daily. We do not have a good forecast of the ratio of use
between rooms.
e. There will not be a laundry service for towels.
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f. There should be 10 individual shower booths in each shower room
and 100 lockers in each locker room.
g. An indoor jogging track is highly desirable if the space can be
found. In any case, the current jogging track in the existing building
will remain. A standard par course should be laid out on the grounds.
The design team should explore the feasibility of substituting a jogging
trail for some of the sidewalks currently in the layout. The par course
should be a minimum of one mile, but the preference is for two miles.
h. The electric requirements in the exercise room are for standard
service with the same ratio of outlets as in a normal office.
2. Budgeting for the exercise room will be from the NBPO for the standard
building items., such as normal floor covering and wall finishes and the
standard fixtures and amenities in the shower and locker rooms. Any special
equipment or building materials required will be the responsibility of OMS.
For example, OMS will budget for: mats or special floor material, exercise
equipment, lockers, par course stations, and the track itself if it is
additional to and cannot be substituted for currently planned sidewalks.
3. OMS will contact their consultant, who is a sports medical doctor, and
solicit from him a conceptual layout which he has promised to provide to CMS.
OMS will also arrange for members of the NBPO to accompany them on a tour of
some existing modern exercise rooms.
New Building Project Office, OL
Distribution:
Orig - OL/NBPO (Official), w/atts
1 - OMS/CAD, w/o atts
1 OMS/CAD, w/o atts
1 -DO-L wo atts
OL/NBPOI I (25 Aug 83)
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MEN AND WOMEN:
Monday through Friday: 0600 to 1030 hours
1500 to 2000 hours
Monday-Wednesday-Friday: Women - 1030 to 1230 hours
Men 1230 to 1500 hours
Tuesday-Thursday: Men - 1030 to 1300 hours
Women - 1300 to 1500 hours
CLOSED: 2000 hours
CLOSED MONDAY: 1500 to 1700 hours
CLOSED THURSDAY: 1800 to 2030 hours
MEN - Average Daily - JAN WOMEN - Average Daily - JAN
FEB FEB
MAR MAR
APR APR
MAY MAY
Averages for Period 5 January 1981 to 6 May 1981:
Men: Mon-Wed-Fri - 138 Tues-Thurs - 134
Women: 47 42
MEN - Average
WOMEN - Average
*In past, hasn't been very
conscientous a ou signing in.
MEN - Average
WOMEN - Average
Averages in Time Slots:
1500 - 1600 hours
1600 - 1700 hours
1700 - 1800 hours
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1979
1980
1981
1982
*closed April for repairs
5 Year Average - 1978 to 1982
Average
Monthly Daily
Gym
Lockers
Showers
Toilets
60 40
4 3
2 2 shared 2
urinals
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1. Supervision
2 Exercise physiologists - new exercise room
1F--]- stay in existing facility
2. Two Different Programs
a. Health
b. Cettain Directorates - SOG
3. Coed operation except for locker and shower facility
4. Jogging Trail - typical par course
and indoor track. Don't think there's a corridor available
to use as a track, except the existing one in Headquarters
Building.
5. people daily - total for both facilities
6. Electrical requirement in exercise area.
7. No laundry.
8. OMS budget
Special flooring, equipment, lockers, par course stations
9. Existing to remain in Headquarters.
10. 10 individual showers
100 lockers
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