The new test comes three weeks after Mr. Hegseth ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat positions. In 2022, the Army had eased the standards for women and ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will ... And while higher physical standards could affect recruitment, retention and promotion rates for women, these female soldiers ...

The Army announced this week that male and female soldiers in 21 combat ... complete age- and sex-normed general fitness tests: the Physical Fitness Test and the Combat Fitness Test.” ...

Starting this summer, the Army will require female soldiers in combat ... The new Army Fitness Test (AFT) is now “the official physical fitness test of record for all Soldiers,” replacing ...

Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? - In a significant shift, the new fitness standards will be the same for men and women, the Army said ...

Check out the updated version of the Army combat fitness test (ACFT). The Army's basic training physical fitness test is a three-event physical performance test used to assess endurance.

Read Next: Female Commander Investigated over Alleged ... measuring a soldier's fitness compared with the earlier Army Physical Fitness Test, or APFT, which had been in use since the 1980s.

In 2021, the Army test-launched a new version of its Combat Fitness Test, the basic physical fitness test required of all its soldiers, with gender-neutral standards. More than 40% of all women ...

The most recent Army Combat Fitness Test was updated in 2022 after it replaced the decades-old Army Physical Fitness Test ... have the same standard, male or female, in our combat roles," Hegseth ...

For men, it has inadvertently lowered standards, while for women, it has dramatically increased failure rates compared to the previous Army Physical Fitness Test. These imbalances threaten to ...

T here’s arguably no greater test of physical and mental toughness than serving in the military. While the demands vary ...