Try This Upper-Body Workout to Prepare for the Army Combat Fitness Test Many people who are required to take the new Army combat fitness test are looking for new ways to include the exercises into...
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Tough Combo Workout Straight Out of the ACFT To be a good tactical athlete, you need to be good at all the elements of fitness, including strength, power, speed, agility...
5 Reasons the ACFT Is Better Than the APFT, According to a Military Fitness Expert While there are many critics of the new test, I believe the things that changed, changed for the better.
Army May Go Back to Job-Specific Scoring After All on the New Fitness Test The force is balancing the desire for a fitter force while also striving not to harm efforts to fill the less physically...
The Army Does Not Need a Better Fitness Test. It Needs a Better Culture It has been documented repeatedly that the Army might inadvertently have skewed the test unfavorably against women.
For Guard and Reserve Soldiers Without Easy Access to Equipment, ACFT Training Costs Pile Up The Army's initiative to build a fitter force may have unintentionally created barriers for members of the National Guard and...
'Largest Purchase of Exercise Equipment Ever': How One Company Supplied Gear for the ACFT Once Sorinex secured the deal with the service, it was a mad dash to supply nearly half a million pieces of workout gear for...
Army Mulls Returning to Gendered Fitness Standards over Complaints of 'Lopsided' ACFT This could mean men and women still would have to meet the same standards but would not be compared to one another.
More Female Soldiers Are Passing the ACFT, But Their Scores Still Trail Men's Data from the Army's Training and Doctrine Command shows the fail rate for women in 2019 was 79% and dipped to 60% in 2020.
The Best World War II Movies, According to Service Members and Veterans These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members...
Veterans Could Get Free Gun Safes Under Suicide Prevention Proposal Introduced in House Any veteran who wants a lockbox to store their firearm would be able to get one for free from the Department of Veterans...
Marines Surpass Enlisted Recruitment Goal by 1, Officers over a Dozen in Sharp Drop from 2023 Officials said that the service sought to recruit 36,257 Marines this year, squeezing by with 36,286 total -- a difference of...
Annual Cost-of-Living Boost for Veterans Benefits Finalized by Congress The increase applies to disability benefits, clothing allowances, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving...
ROTC Scholarships Could Be Slashed This Decade as Army Deals with Glut of Officers The Army is eyeing a roughly $100 million cut to Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships through the rest of the decade...