Over the past 20 years, to say that all branches of the military have changed their fitness testing and standards is an ...

Paralympic athletes stepped up to attempt the Army Combat Fitness Test. Each event tested strength, endurance, and explosive ...

Think the fitness tests you did in gym class were tough? The U.S. military has been putting its service members through the wringer for decades, but the way they measure strength and readiness is ...

A truck driver with the National Guard just achieved the highest ranking ever in the U.S. Army's rigorous new physical fitness test. Ryan Sowder of the 2112th Transportation Company out of Burlington, ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that there would be new, strict fitness standards enforced on the U.S. military. In a speech addressing several hundred high-ranking officials in ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Army is moving forward with a new gender and age neutral fitness test designed to test soldier's combat readiness. The six-event test is called the Army Combat Fitness ...

Soldiers have a new incentive to get a high score on the service’s new Army Fitness Test. Those soldiers who score at least 465 are eligible to be exempt from the service’s body fat standards, Army ...

Fort Eustis, Newport News, Va., October 2018: Army Staff Sgt. Jessica Smiley, a test grader with the Army’s Center for Initial Military Training, looks on as soldiers with the 128th Aviation Brigade ...

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – The Army’s Expert Infantryman, Field Medical and Soldier badges will now share a common fitness assessment, while still maintaining the integrity and history of each ...