What It Takes Texas Parks and Wildlife is currently accepting applications for Game Warden Trainee (Cadet) through September 30. There is a slew of minimum qualifications listed on the job postings page. Among them is the successful completion of a physical readiness test that includes a swim test in which a prospective employee must be able to, among other things, tread water or float for one minute and swim 100 meters within four minutes.There wasn’t any kind of physical readiness test when my classmates in the 42nd Game Warden Academy and I reported for training in October of 1990, but ...