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

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest ...

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 ...

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 ...

US Army said the fitness test will be called the ‘Army ... Occupational Specialty (MOS)—the new AFT will adopt a more uniform approach. The MOS-specific model, introduced in 2022 after nearly ...