The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) has dropped the medicine ball toss, removed the word “Combat” from its name, and introduced higher scoring requirements for combat arms soldiers. The revised test ...

Soldiers with the 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, 28th Infantry Division, take an Army Combat Fitness Test at Strickler Field at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. (1st Lt. Kate ...

The Navy has a new fitness test for active-duty “combat arms personnel,” including members of Naval Special Warfare and Naval Special Operations commands. It is called the Navy Combat Fitness Test ...

The U.S. Army is making changes to their physical fitness requirements for all soldiers, introducing new gender-neutral standards while eliminating one of its most criticized events. On Monday, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marines serving in combat arms jobs will begin taking a gender-neutral Physical Fitness Test on Jan. 1, 2026. All Marines in ...

Starting this summer, the Army will require female soldiers in combat roles to pass the same “sex-neutral” fitness test as their male counterparts, the service announced Monday. The new Army Fitness ...

The Navy finally stopped grading knife fighters like office workers. For years, elite maritime operators were judged on a physical fitness test that rewarded jogging endurance and polite calisthenics, ...

All Marines in combat arms fields will soon have to meet the same standards on their Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, regardless of their gender, under a service-wide policy announced Thursday. The new ...