{"id":137166,"date":"2023-02-17T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137166"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:49:37","slug":"army-fitness-test-may-see-more-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=137166","title":{"rendered":"Army Fitness Test may see more changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One option that the Army is considering is a gender-neutral standard that is higher for combat arms than for the rest of the Army. Another option that they are playing around with is repurposing the physical tests conducted for expert badges. The Army is also moving forward with providing height and weight waivers for those who score high on the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT).<\/p>\n

From Military.com:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The changes are still being formulated, with some of the uncertainty driven by two competing congressional requirements built into last year’s annual defense policy bill to “establish gender-neutral fitness standards for combat [jobs] that are higher than those for non-combat [jobs],” while also creating gender-neutral standards for all soldiers.<\/p>\n

Grinston also said Tuesday that the service is moving forward with a change to its body fat standards that would create waivers for soldiers who score highly on the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT.<\/p>\n

The ACFT was originally intended to be gender-neutral, but the Army reversed course after early test data, first reported by Military.com in 2021, showed that nearly half of all female soldiers were failing the test.<\/p>\n

That helped ratchet up debate during the last Congress over whether the new test was right for the service.<\/p>\n

Democrats called for a postponement of the test due to “unrealistic standards” for “medical personnel, judge advocates, or cyber warriors,” also citing high failure rates for women. Meanwhile Republican lawmakers leveled heated criticism at gender-based testing benchmarks. The debate led to the inclusion in last year’s defense policy bill of the provision requiring a new “gender-neutral physical readiness standards” by June.<\/p>\n

One option, as described by Grinston, would be combat job specific standards modeled after current tests like the Expert Infantryman Badge, an assessment meant to evaluate a soldier’s aptitude for combat. The EIB, Grinston said, now includes two total miles of running in full combat equipment, push-ups, sprints, “sandbags,” crawls, buddy rushes, and farmer carries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com provides more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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