WASHINGTON -- Major changes are coming to the Army Combat Fitness Test, officials announced Sept. 27, with changes that will affect every Soldier. The changes, locked in for fiscal year 2020, include ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both chambers of Congress have competing ideas to reinvent the Army's new fitness test, an ongoing effort by legislators to alter ...

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 Army will likely have to implement further changes to its embattled fitness test, just months after the long-in-development Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, was finally rolled out, as Congress ...

Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy bill unveiled Wednesday. The must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...

Cadets in Clemson University's Army ROTC detachment reported to campus on a cold, dark morning at 4:30am to take the Army Combat Fitness Test, Nov. 14, 2023. (Ken Scar/Army) Under recently released ...

A total of 340 pounds. This is the weight that a soldier must deadlift to earn 100 points on the maximum deadlift ACFT event. Is this an attainable goal for a soldier who weighs 110 pounds? What about ...

The Army might be on the cusp of yet another change to its new fitness test after lawmakers backed an effort to switch to job-specific standards. Lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee on ...

Members of Congress are pushing for the U.S. Army to revise its physical fitness standards after it recently revamped a key benchmark to account for ages and gender. The Army earlier this spring ...

ATLANTA — The new sergeant major of the Army offered a full-throated endorsement of the Army Combat Fitness Test on Tuesday as lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate defense spending and the future of the ...