Tough Combo Workout Straight Out of the ACFT To be a good tactical athlete, you need to be good at all the elements of fitness, including strength, power, speed, agility...
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?"
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Poland Says It Shot Down Russian Drones that Violated Its Airspace During Strikes on Ukraine Poland said that multiple Russian drones entered and were shot down over its territory with help from NATO allies, describing...
Soldier Dies on Fort Leonard Wood Rifle Range The Army identified the 18-year-old on Monday but has not provided details into the circumstances of his death.