FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Earlier this month, during a spell of gray, wet weather, big trucks rolling out of Decatur, Alabama, steered south to the red clay and pines of Fort Benning, hauling so large a ...

There are many reasons to like the changes found in recent tactical fitness. They assess some new skills when compared to the classic PT tests we have done for generations. To be a good tactical ...

The Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a non-partisan advocacy group for servicewomen and women veterans, joined a growing chorus of voices this week raising concerns over the Army’s new fitness ...

After preliminary fitness test scores leaked in September, many have voiced concerns about how women would fare in the new Army Combat Fitness Test. The scores — which accounted for 11 of the 63 ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), U.S. Army Garrison ...

If the Army were a TV show, this would be the end-of-season cliffhanger. Congress is seeking to kill the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, and revert to the service's previous fitness test. A move ...

When Army leaders set out to update the decades-old physical-fitness test, senior leaders sought, in part, to create a new test that would judge all soldiers against a single standard. But during ...

The new Army Combat Fitness Test will not be used as a graduation requirement for soldiers going through initial enlisted and officer training courses in fiscal 2021. The move brings the Army’s Center ...

A 19th Engineer Battalion soldier at Fort Knox, Kentucky, strains to deadlift more than 200 pounds last year during a three-day training session on the new Army Combat Fitness Test. (Army) FORT MONROE ...

The new Army Combat Fitness Test officially became the service’s test of record in October, but lawmakers have ordered a pause on further implementation pending an independent study to determine how ...