Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S.

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows this week when he said in a speech to military generals that fitness standards for combat must “return to the highest male standard.” “Those ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called for all military branches to review standards for shaving, fitness and troops in combat roles. In a memo last week, Hegseth directed the secretaries to ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs ...

The U.S. Army formalized equal fitness standards between men and women in combat roles in new guidelines released Monday. The new Army Fitness Test (AFT), formally the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...

FORT EUSTIS, Va. -- Army senior leaders have approved a new strenuous fitness test designed to better prepare Soldiers for combat tasks, reduce injuries and lead to ample cost savings across the ...

With the new Army Combat Fitness Test rolling out this year to replace the older Army Physical Fitness Test (PFT), you will not only need a strategy to train specifically for the new test, but you'll ...