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Twenty U.S. Army Contracting Command Soldiers qualified to wear the Master Combat Badge this spring as part of the U.S. Army’s latest program to award and recognize personnel who have been ...
instead of the former ‘Army Combat Fitness Test.’ A look at the key changes. The US Army in an internal memo said that it will make changes to its fitness test including rebranding the test ...
Earning the Expert Field Medical Badge: a Soldier’s story By Joe Lacdan, Army News Service WASHINGTON — Set between the ...
On Monday, the Army announced it was replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test with the Army Fitness Test, AFT, according to a news release published on its website. "The five-event AFT is designed ...
The US Army is set to introduce the Army Fitness Test (AFT) in June 2025, replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT). The AFT eliminates the standing power throw and introduces age-normed ...
First, the test will no longer be the "Army Combat Fitness Test," and will simply be the "Army Fitness Test, " or AFT. It was unclear why the service moved to take out the word "combat." ...
Languages: English. 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.
El Paso, Texas — President Trump last week authorized the military to take control of a 700-mile-long and 60-foot-deep strip of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border stretching from ...
By Matt White Published Apr 18, 2025 3:47 PM EDT During the post-9/11 wars, the US military came as close to perfecting near-immediate trauma care on the battlefield as the chaos of combat would ...
Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to ...
Taiwan’s military has been instructed to continue verifying its joint combat plans and backup mechanism in the remaining days of the computerized Han Kuang tabletop wargames, the Ministry of National ...