Bill Curwick was born in 1950, the eldest of Winifred and James Curwick’s five children. He graduated from Marshall High School in 1968 and enrolled in Southwest Minnesota State College. “I figured ...

Soldiers with the 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, 28th Infantry Division, take an Army Combat Fitness Test at Strickler Field at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. (1st Lt. Kate Kramer ...

On Monday, the Army announced it was replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test with the Army Fitness Test, AFT, according to a news release published on its website. "The five-event AFT is designed ...

WASHINGTON — In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat engineers, supporting frontline infantry in every war ...

according to an internal memo obtained by Military.com. The overhaul includes a rebranding of the test, the elimination of its most criticized event, and the introduction of new performance ...

The Army announced two major changes to its fitness ... cavalry, mortarmen, and combat engineers. “For those 21 MOSes, they will all be graded on the male scale, so it will be sex neutral ...

The change follows a review by the RAND Corporation and analysis of nearly 1 million Army fitness test records, Army officials said. Combat MOS soldiers must earn a minimum of 60 points per event and ...