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?"
The Army Infantry Doesn't Just Need More Women. It Needs More Qualified Women "Removing high standards and offering substitutions will increase pass rates among women, leading the Army to falsely...
Coast Guard Reservist Wins Landmark Supreme Court Case Over Pay Disparities for Federal Workers In a 5-4 decision, the justices said Nick Feliciano, a Coast Guard petty officer who was called to active duty from 2012 to...
Senators Voice 'Deep Concerns' About Trump's Pick for Air Force Under Secretary Democratic senators voiced serious concerns about a former Former Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier's political social media posts...
'This Is Going to Be a Challenge': Service Officials Detail Fallout from Civilian Resignations Pushed by Trump The military services are poised to lose thousands of their civilian employees to the Trump administration's push for them to...
New England Patriots' Charter Plane Flies to Guantanamo Bay A New England Patriots plane made a trip to and from Guantánamo Bay, public flight tracking data shows.
Trump & Co’s Polygraph Pandemonium "Multiple studies over the years have shown not only that polygraphs are hardly foolproof when it comes to vetting ...