Does seem a little silly that we are pushing for fitter, healthier people, and a lot of guidelines are directing management to ensure that people get time off for sport, etc, when we have just done away with the PT Officer cadre...
Personally, PTIs are always useful. If nothing else, they are the Arfur Daley's of the RN, always able to get their hands on kit at back-of-a-lorry prices. They are also quite useful for testing how far certain rules can be flexed, especially those that apply to Adventure Training!
Job effectiveness has very little bearing (in our world) on how fast you can do 1.5K, but in this purple world you have to expect to be able to keep up with the other two Services. Well, OK, maybe not the crabs. Op Telic has put a lot of our people on solid ground, and whilst the argument is valid that running 1.5K on a ship is pointless, running at high speed when you hear something whistling in towards you is a skill that should be ticked off!