U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered gender-neutral physical fitness standards for combat roles, asserting the same ...

Soldiers trying to earn the Army Ranger tab will have to do more challenging functional fitness exercises starting day one.

62-year-old George Hood, who served as an officer in the Marine Corps, set the record for “longest time in an abdominal plank position (male)” with a time of 8 hours, 15 minutes, 15 seconds ...

The Army is going back to basics in its approach to fitness tests in a desperate bid to find more troops to facedown Vladimir Putin's forces. A 'woke' fitness assessment introduced in 2019 - which ...

Over the last five years, the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in January to review "in a gender-neutral way" readiness standards for troops.

Beginning in January 2016, all military jobs opened to women who met the qualifications, and in July 2020, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command announced that the first woman authorized by the ...

Focusing on yourself doesn’t mean you have to do it on your own, that’s the motto behind a new U.S. Army video campaign, All You.“The All You campaign focuses n ...