The U.S. Army will conduct a congressionally mandated independent study of the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT. But for now, soldiers will continue to take the more challenging fitness assessment.

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 ...

Three years after unveiling its new fitness test as gender-neutral, the Army is considering a change to the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) that would score soldiers on a service-wide percentile ...

While announcing new changes to the Army Combat Fitness Test, Army leaders implored soldiers to just take the damn test already. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, ...

ATLANTA — The new sergeant major of the Army offered a full-throated endorsement of the Army Combat Fitness Test on Tuesday as lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate defense spending and the future of the ...