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...
The Air Force's New PT Test Is Coming This July. Here's What We Know "We are moving away from a one-size-fits-all model," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles CQ Brown in a news release
At 53, I Took the Tough New Army Combat Fitness Test. Here's How It Turned Out For 23 days, I slogged through a journey that pulled my body from a lifestyle of daily walks and gin martinis into a regimen...
Air Force Delays PT Test Again But Adds a New Scoring System The U.S. Air Force just postponed its physical fitness assessment for the fourth time in about a year due to COVID-19.
Army's Top NCO Goes on Twitter to Scold Leaders for Not Testing Units on ACFT Sergeant Major of the Army Grinston told unit leaders in the operational force that they need to make the ACFT a priority
Air Force Becomes First Service to Ditch the Hated Tape Test for Good PT tests, scheduled to resume next month, will now be on hold until April, according to a service release.
Bill Would Force Army to Halt ACFT Until It Can Study Impacts Congress wants an independent study to look at how the more-challenging assessment will affect recruiting and retention.
Marines' Combat Fitness Test Canceled for Year as Virus Cases Spike Again Marines who haven’t yet completed their Combat Fitness Test will be allowed to skip it, service leaders announced.
Navy Delays Fitness Testing Yet Again as Virus Cases Hit Record Levels Navy leaders have, for the third time, postponed service-wide fitness tests as the U.S. sees its most troubling jump in...
Goodbye Curl-Ups: Navy Releases New PRT Rules for Planks and Rowing The long-awaited rules for the new plank and rowing events on the Navy's fitness test are out, and officials say sailors...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...