Happy Friday! The Army announced this week that male and female soldiers in 21 combat military occupational specialties will have to meet the same standards on the new Army Fitness Test, which also ...

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest and symbolic move that reflects mounting internal and political pressure over ...

The Army is unlikely to change its new physical fitness test despite Congress recently passing a law pressing the service to establish gender-neutral standards, according to two sources with knowledge ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test from June 1 that will adopt new standards for all soldiers in combat roles. In a significant shift, the new fitness standards will be the same for men ...

The U.S. Army announced an overhaul of its physical fitness test, including gender-neutral standards for soldiers in 21 combat jobs. The new fitness test consists of a three-repetition maximum ...

The U.S. Army announced last week a new physical fitness test that will implement a gender-neutral scale for combat arms soldiers, after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the armed forces to ...

The new Army Fitness Test comes after Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, ordered the elimination of lower fitness standards for women in combat roles. By Jonathan Wolfe Women in U.S. Army combat ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test could change — again — if the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of next year’s defense budget is passed. The final version of the 2024 National Defense ...

The Army’s latest fitness test could lead to an eventual reduction in injuries, according to a recent study that found soldiers become less prone to getting hurt as they gain experience with the ...

Army Reserve Soldiers from the 451st and 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Commands, participate in an ACFT at Camp Dodge, Iowa, March 25, 2024. (Spc. Jonathan Clutter/Army) The Army Combat Fitness Test ...