Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army units are now authorized to begin taking the new Army Combat Fitness Test as the official replacement to the four-decade old ...

The changes to Army fitness testing have been constant and confusing, even to soldiers, over the past decade. The first ...

If Congress gets its way, the Army will be forced to stop administering the new Army Combat Fitness Test until an independent study looks at how the more-challenging assessment will affect recruiting ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- The United States Army wants you to get in better shape. Actually, they want their soldiers to train harder, smarter and more efficiently. “It was time to look at how do we ...

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A command sergeant major performs the sprint-drag-carry event for the ACFT at Fort Eustis, Virginia on Oct. 25, 2019. (Master Sgt. Michel Sauret/Army) If you’ve been slacking on those deadlifts and ...

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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A Mobile Training Team from the Army Physical Fitness School at Fort Jackson, South Carolina traveled to Fort Campbell to train 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) leaders how ...

The old Army physical fitness test (PFT) of push-ups, sit-ups and a two-mile run was (and still is) a decent test of basic health and fitness. It has been used in studies to show that average to above ...

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 ...

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 ...