Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Samuel Hill weighs Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Perrin during body composition assessments aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln. (MCS Joey Sitter/Navy ...

Mark Milley. "Unfortunately, the U.S. military's high standards on body composition and other metrics eroded in recent years, particularly during the tenure of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark ...

According to Navy data, nearly 25,000 sailors, most of them from the junior enlisted ranks, were in a weight management ...

Kathryn Cole, a service spokeswoman who provided a lengthy statement in response to Military Times queries. Since then, "there have been knowledge and technology advances in body composition ...