The new Army Fitness Test comes after Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, ordered the elimination of lower fitness standards for women in combat roles. By Jonathan Wolfe Women in U.S. Army combat ...

Happy Friday! The Army announced this week that male and female soldiers in 21 combat military occupational specialties will have to meet the same standards on the new Army Fitness Test, which also ...

Hundreds of women have already come forward with allegations of sexual abuse while undergoing medical examinations to join ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Prosthetic body parts of a medical manikin are unpackaged from large trunk cases and assembled on a stretcher on the morning of Jan. 9 in the Fort Cavazos Medical Simulation ...

This week, the U.S. Army announced its plans for an updated fitness test that requires men and women in combat positions to meet the same physical standards. In the past, men and women in combat roles ...

Last week, the U.S. Army announced new fitness standards in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders to make the standards for women and men in combat roles the same. Like much of Hegseth’s ...

The U.S. Army is set to implement a redesigned fitness test that introduces gender-neutral standards for combat roles and eliminates one of its most controversial events. The Army Fitness Test (AFT), ...

The Army now requires men and women to meet the same standards of physical fitness for combat roles to make soldiers as effective as possible. NBC News' Yasmin ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...

Women in U.S. Army combat roles will be expected to pass the same “sex-neutral” physical test as male soldiers, the military branch announced Monday, weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered ...