text: what would you do about a 1sg? i have a soldier who has a p2 and can't do a apft not the push up's or sit up's and has an alternate event for the run which is the bike.  the 1sg is saying the sm has to complete the complete apft test.  i have showed the regulation to the 1sg and to the cdr which says as long as it is approved by the medical doctor all he has to do is the alternate event and they are still screwing with the sm not allowing to sm to do what he has to do in order to pcs to another duty station the 1sg want the sm to stay at current duty station for what reason we can not figure it out. does anyone have any insight on whether or not this is against regulation and falls under harassment and should this be taken up to ig, and perhaps, even higher? if you think you are correct call the ig.  however (speaking as a former ig myself) i advise you _not_ to get your congressional representative involved.  an ig can fix something like this with a phone call - calling a congressman starts a three-ring circus that takes months to resolve.  for example - if you call your congressman, nobody can now tell you anything.  all information has to go up the chain of command (and get reviewed by every person as it goes up) until it gets to the congressman.  then the congressman's office may or may not actually tell the soldier.