The Army will ignore a soldier's weight, a sharp swerve from the decades of history where troops were evaluated based on the dreaded "tape test" that tracked body dimensions. But there's a catch -- ...

The rivalry between military fitness and influencer training gets put to the test in a five-event competition that pushes ...

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 is scrapping the Army Combat Fitness Test and rolling out a new five-event test aimed at boosting readiness and combat strength, officials announced on Monday, April 21. The new test, ...

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – It’s not uncommon to find Soldiers continuously performing their own workout routines while deployed. The U.S. Army’s new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) continues to serve as ...

It's a mistress the Army can't keep itself from continually returning to: uniform changes. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, the service’s top enlisted leader, on Tuesday announced new ...

FORT BRAGG -- A Fort Bragg soldier is defying the odds by maxing out the score on the new Army Combat Fitness Test, despite dealing with Chronic Kidney Disease. Major Carpaccio Owens, with the 82nd ...

Although its advocates prefer to describe Comprehensive Soldier Fitness as a training program, it is indisputably a research project of enormous size and scope, one in which a million soldiers are ...

For the handlers of the 525th Military Working Dog (MWD) Detachment, readiness isn’t just about the mission—it’s about maintaining ...