The U.S. Army will conduct a congressionally mandated independent study of the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT. But for now, soldiers will continue to take the more challenging fitness assessment.

An advocacy group for women veterans sent a letter to Congress this week, urging lawmakers to stop implementation of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) until the service completes an independent ...

Three years after unveiling its new fitness test as gender-neutral, the Army is considering a change to the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) that would score soldiers on a service-wide percentile ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test is the assessment for the physical domain of the Army's Holistic Health and Fitness System. As a general physical fitness test, an age and gender performance-normed ...

While announcing new changes to the Army Combat Fitness Test, Army leaders implored soldiers to just take the damn test already. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- More than 100 Army inspectors general, both soldiers and civilians attending the World Wide Inspector General Conference, gathered early on April 10 at Specker Field House here to ...

ATLANTA — The new sergeant major of the Army offered a full-throated endorsement of the Army Combat Fitness Test on Tuesday as lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate defense spending and the future of the ...

The Army's old fitness test edged closer to termination after the service on Monday said in a memo reviewed by Military.com to the force that soldiers flagged for a failed assessment can lift it by ...

A soldier conducts a dead lift during a pilot program for the Army Combat Fitness Test at Fort Bliss, Texas, last year. (Sgt. Brittany Johnson/Army) The Army announced Friday morning that it is ...

Spc. Briceton Lowrie, with the 2nd Battalion, 198th Armored Regiment, conducts a dead lift as part of the ACFT. (Sgt. Brittany Johnson/Army National Guard) The wait is over for the Army to implement ...

Spc. Juan Gonzalez of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, is the first enlisted soldier to max out the new Army Combat Fitness Test with a score of 600, officials say. (Staff Sgt. James ...

An advocacy group for women veterans sent a letter to Congress this week, urging lawmakers to stop implementation of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) until the service completes an independent ...