Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), U.S. Army Garrison ...

Beginning Oct. 1, a modified version of the Army Combat Fitness Test will become the service's new fitness evaluation, but training challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic will mean individual ...

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.

Army units are now authorized to begin taking the new Army Combat Fitness Test as the official replacement to the four-decade old Army Physical Fitness Test. But the scores soldiers receive will be ...

Paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade participate in an Army Combat Fitness Test in June 2020. (Spc. Ryan Lucas/Army) An Army contractor accidentally published “pre-decisional” ...

If you havenʼt heard yet, the U.S. Army announced another revision to its current Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) on March 23. This revision came after an in-depth independent review by the RAND ...

The Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a non-partisan advocacy group for servicewomen and women veterans, joined a growing chorus of voices this week raising concerns over the Army’s new fitness ...

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 ...

Spc. Briceton Lowrie, with 2nd Battalion, 198th Armor Regiment, conducts a dead lift during a pilot program for the Army Combat Fitness Test at Fort Bliss, Texas, April 17, 2018. (Army/Sgt. Brittany ...

The Army's controversial new fitness test may replace the decades old standard by which troops are measured later this year after years of advocacy by Army leadership confronting a skeptical Congress ...

FORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) - Ever since recent data that showed more than 40% of women are failing the new Army Combat Fitness Test, the ACFT, Secretary Nominee Christine Wormuth is calling for a change ...

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 ...