The Army is poised to recalibrate its fitness standards, redefining the physical expectations for combat-arms roles in 2025.

For men, it has inadvertently lowered standards, while for women, it has dramatically increased failure rates compared to the previous Army Physical Fitness Test. These imbalances threaten to ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for ...

In 2022 the Army changed its fitness test from the 3-event Army Physical Fitness Test to the 6-event Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT. This was the first change to the Army’s test in 42 years.