What's Involved in an MMA Metabolic Resistance Workout The one thing every MMA fighter has in common is a powerful athletic physique built from metabolic resistance training.
How to Get Ready for Air Force Special Warfare and Pararescue The evolving Air Force Special Warfare (AFSW) program has developed its own ground-breaking systems to make a better special...
A 'Dirty Dozen' of Tactical Fitness Training and Testing Ideas Training large groups with varied fitness levels is one of the most challenging things to accomplish with success.
Why the 'Common PFT' Has Become the Fitness Standard While the regular military and law enforcement agencies use the "Common PFT," the specialized groups in these units have more...
What You Should Know About Military Body Composition Tests All services use the body composition test, which requires all military personnel to weigh in and have their height measured.
Tactical Fitness with Stew Smith: How to Develop the Proper Push-up Posture Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, addresses proper push-up posture and how to strengthen upper- and lower...
Find Out How Fit You Really Are in Only Three Minutes If you want to find out how fit you really are, try this challenge. Do as many push-ups as you can in three minutes.
Air Force Moves to Deadlifts as Way to Determine Job Qualifications, Opening Up Positions to More Women The change is part of the updated Strength Aptitude Test, which had been in place since the 1980s, to evaluate how much...
Air Force Weight Charts In 2004, the Air Force set new weight requirements for joining. Another change is that the weight requirements are now...
The Top 10 Reasons Why People Fail at Special Ops There are many ways to fail out or quit any of the many special-ops programs, but the biggest reason someone fails is usually...
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...