FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training is here at Fort Leonard Wood this week in order to field test the Army Combat Readiness Test with Soldiers from the 1st ...

Choosing a new fitness test has become the Army’s new forever war. The Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, has undergone a never-ending series of changes since it was first introduced in 2017, and now ...

Beginning Oct. 1, a modified version of the Army Combat Fitness Test will become the service's new fitness evaluation, but training challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic will mean individual ...

A new Army physical fitness test designed to measure combat readiness has entered final stages of development and could be fully implemented across the service as soon as next summer, Army Times ...

The Army's old fitness test edged closer to termination after the service on Monday said in a memo reviewed by Military.com to the force that soldiers flagged for a failed assessment can lift it by ...

A standard bit of life advice is, "Don't train for the test." That's not always true. Sometimes you need to train specifically and solely for a fitness test, since your performance will mean the ...

Spc. Briceton Lowrie, with 2nd Battalion, 198th Armored Regiment, conducts a deadlift during a pilot program for the Army Combat Fitness Test at Fort Bliss, Texas, April 17, 2018. The ACFT consists of ...

The U.S. Army plans to launch a large-scale pilot within the next year to test a new physical fitness test designed to gauge if soldiers are ready for the rigors of combat. On Monday, Secretary of the ...

FORT LEE, Va. -- After finishing the Army Combat Readiness Test, a six-event assessment designed to reduce injuries and replace today's physical fitness test, Spc. Efren Gandara and others in the ...

A soldier performs a leg tuck during a pilot Army Combat Readiness Test at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Stephanie Slater/Army) The jury is most definitely in: The Army Physical Fitness Test, ...