The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

A soldier receives a 3-D body scan at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2021. The scan/study is part of a comprehensive body composition study examining the association between body composition and Soldier ...

A Soldier prepares for the dead lift event of the Army Combat Fitness Test Sept. 23, 2019, at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Thomas Brading/Army) The Army has set a timeline for reforms on how the service ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps will institute a sex-neutral scoring physical fitness test for Marines with a combat arms primary military occupational specialty, the service announced this week. “Our ...

March 12 (UPI) --The U.S. Army will continue to use the antiquated "tape test" to measure soldiers' body composition in spite of a study that shows the test to be flawed. The army has researched ...

The Marine Corps has announced that it is changing the way it determines the body composition of its Marines, becoming the first military branch to move away from the traditional tape test in favor of ...

This article was reviewed by Felix Gussone, MD. Key Takeaways: Body composition offers a clearer picture of health than ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) - The U.S. military is replacing long-standing height-and-weight charts with ‘waist-to-height ratio’ ...