The U.S. Army will conduct a congressionally mandated independent study of the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT. But for now, soldiers will continue to take the more challenging fitness assessment.

The Army Combat Fitness Test is the assessment for the physical domain of the Army's Holistic Health and Fitness System. As a general physical fitness test, an age and gender performance-normed ...

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 ...

Three years after unveiling its new fitness test as gender-neutral, the Army is considering a change to the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) that would score soldiers on a service-wide percentile ...

While announcing new changes to the Army Combat Fitness Test, Army leaders implored soldiers to just take the damn test already. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, ...

Borrowed from the Army’s fitness test, these moves build the kind of strength and conditioning that carries over to real life ...

ATLANTA — The new sergeant major of the Army offered a full-throated endorsement of the Army Combat Fitness Test on Tuesday as lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate defense spending and the future of the ...

The Army's old fitness test edged closer to termination after the service on Monday said in a memo reviewed by Military.com to the force that soldiers flagged for a failed assessment can lift it by ...

The Army aims to formally implement the Army Combat Fitness Test — its biggest overhaul to fitness testing since 1980 — by April 2022, the service’s top NCO says. There’s one potential hang-up, though ...