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 ...
The Army will use physical fitness scores, technical expertise and commander evaluations to determine a soldier’s payout to reenlist.
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 ...
What sounds like “just the Army Combat Fitness Test” quickly becomes a full-body grind as a 99-pound US Marine takes on the new ACFT events including the three-rep max deadlift at 155 pounds, standing ...
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 SHAFTER, Hawaii– U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) kicked off its annual Career Counselor of the Year competition, March 2-6, 2026, bringing together ...
The Army plans to launch a new, four-event fitness test for recruits this summer that will serve as "the physical equivalent of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery," allowing the service to ...
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 ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – When Maj. Carpaccio “Pace” Owens was into the seventh year of his Army career, he was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. A civilian insurance company denied him term life ...