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.
Army Secretary Nominee Worries the ACFT Will Push Too Many Women Out Top brass told lawmakers at a separate hearing that early data on women struggling with the Army's Combat Fitness test is...
The Army Never Should Have Switched to the ACFT When it comes to the Army Combat Fitness Test, we need to ask ourselves, "Why?"
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...