In March, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to make fitness standards for combat jobs more uniform across all genders. "We need to have the same standard, male or female ...

The U.S. Army introduced a new fitness test with gender-neutral standards for combat roles, seeking to enforce uniform ...

Hegseth, an Army veteran who rose to the rank of major and served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, has emphasized the need for uniform and more stringent fitness standards for male and female ...

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 ...

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 ...

The standard AFT, which all troops must pass, will still be sex and age-based, according to the Army. But scoring on the test for 21 combat military occupational specialties is “sex-neutral and ...

The U.S. military has fiercely debated the issue of how to fairly grade women’s physical fitness in testing to determine their placement into physically demanding combat jobs and their ...

The Army announced two major changes to its fitness standards Monday: soldiers in 21 combat jobs will have to pass a gender-neutral test, while the standing power throw — occasionally called ...

enforcing uniform physical fitness standards for all combat roles, regardless of gender. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth signed the directive on Sunday, stressing the need to restore high military ...