Army units are now authorized to begin taking the new Army Combat Fitness Test as the official replacement to the four-decade old Army Physical Fitness Test. But the scores soldiers receive will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Army will conduct a congressionally mandated independent study of the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT. But for now, ...

The U.S. Army is planning to replace its antiquated fitness exam with a more rigorous model designed to better prepare soldiers for the demands of modern warfare. The new exam has been tested for two ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The U.S. Army's new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2020. In order to meet that timeline, equipment for the ACFT has started shipping - and the Kentucky ...

The Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a non-partisan advocacy group for servicewomen and women veterans, joined a growing chorus of voices this week raising concerns over the Army’s new fitness ...

The new Army Combat Fitness Test officially became the service’s test of record in October, but lawmakers have ordered a pause on further implementation pending an independent study to determine how ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- The United States Army wants you to get in better shape. Actually, they want their soldiers to train harder, smarter and more efficiently. “It was time to look at how do we ...

U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Daniel Bush, left, a civil affairs specialist with the 352st Civil Affairs Command, and Staff Sgt. Marco Campos, middle, a civil affairs specialist with the 410th Civil Affairs ...

Paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct the Army Combat Fitness Test on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in October. (Sgt. Cody Parsons ...

The U.S. Army is evaluating a new version of its gender-neutral Army Combat Fitness Test, one that would likely create "gender-specific" evaluation categories for men and women when it comes time for ...