In 2022, after more than a decade of debate, the Army formally adopted the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, which was originally conceived as a job-specific assessment with tailored requirements ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered gender-neutral physical fitness standards for combat roles, asserting the same ...

In 2019, the army began trials with a more challenging six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to replace the long-standing Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT). The ACFT was supposed to have sex ...

the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to include Basic Combat Training ...

In 2022, the U.S. Army adjusted its Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to incorporate different standards for men and women, following a RAND Corporation study that revealed 65% of women failed the test ...

The Army earlier this month delivered more than 50 armored Stryker fighting vehicles to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.