Must disagree. I found the charts immediately understandable and I have no military background. The columns beyond the first indicate how many to do the header signifies the sex and the score is available on the first column. Age groupings as marked. The goals may be more than a civilian needs or not but the charts themselves, I found to be fairly self explainatory.

I was hoping for more tho. For example what about chin-ups? What about squats? The situp / pushup / running combination is minimal in terms of a workout. There are whole muscle groups and joints that will never be stressed by just that.

I have been aiming for a goal something like this

50 pushups

100 situps

20 chinups

50 squats

5 miles running / jogging (the aerobic nature not the speed is the goal here) under 1 hour

15 mile walking in one day with 35 pound pack

I'm not there yet but that's the goals so-far.