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 ...

The Army is launching a new gender-neutral combat fitness test with equal standards for men and women in select combat roles.

Think the fitness tests you did in gym class were tough? The U.S. military has been putting its service members through the wringer for decades, but the way they measure strength and readiness is ...

For decades, the Army has assessed physical fitness through the standard fitness test that many branches of the military and law enforcement use. The problem with many Americans is that the current ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) considers physical fitness an important component of the ''general health and well-being" and readiness of military troops (DoDD 1308.1, 1981) and defines physical ...