Beginning in June, a revised version called the Army Fitness Test will replace the 3-year-old Army Combat Fitness Test. The updated test will feature five events instead of the current six and ...

The U.S. Army is replacing their former fitness test for soldiers, making it "sex-neutral and age-normed." Here's what's changed, what is required.

The Army's new fitness test focuses on combat effectiveness with demanding events and sex-neutral standards, challenging soldiers' strength and endurance.

The former ACFT, launched in 2022 after about a decade of development, was a role-specific assessment with events that were tailor-made for different military occupational specialities (MOS ...

Over the last five years, the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, was originally conceived as a job-specific assessment with tailored requirements for different military occupations.