Women will have to lift the same weights and finish events in the same time as men to achieve the minimum passing score.

The US Army is set to introduce the Army Fitness Test (AFT) in June 2025, replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT). The ...

The Army, in an internal memo, said that it will make changes to its fitness test, including rebranding ... “We need to have the same standard, male or female, in our combat roles.

The Army has reconfigured its fitness test, dropping the ball throw, making the test sex-neutral for combat arms and raising ...

The Army announced ... after the test became a political battleground centered around the question of whether the military’s fitness requirements are or should be different for men and women.

US President Donald Trump’s recent weight loss has become the talk of the town after his recent medical exam revealed a ...

Bone stress injuries, including stress fractures, can be debilitating to athletes but are also a problem for the U.S.

A man in China was admitted to hospital with a severe fungal lung infection after admitting to years of sniffing his own ...

The Army is set to make sweeping ... the rest of the force. The test has been largely viewed as having a very low benchmark to pass -- for example, requiring men to run only two miles in 22 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army announced today the establishment of the Army Fitness Test (AFT) as the official ... including support to Soldiers with medical profiles and governance to monitor ...

The new test is part of a broader Army push to ensure troops are physically prepared for operations in austere and demanding environments, military officials said. The service is also updating policy ...