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The program is designed to enhance and facilitate Soldier "readiness" and maintain optimal well-being and performance under all circumstances by instituting standards and guidelines designed to evaluate a Soldier's height, weight, and ability to pass the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT).
FILE - U.S Army troops training to serve as instructors participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 8, 2019.
Army project manager and fitness trainer SFC Scott Dalrymple shares his part in the military's fitness plan "to help soldiers and make them better war-fighters" on "The Ingraham Angle."
The Indoor Obstacle Course Test (IOCT) is a test of full-body functional physical fitness administered by the Department of Physical Education (DPE) at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. DPE considers the IOCT to be one of the best evaluations of total body fitness given in the Army. [2]
Completion, implementation, and components of physical fitness tests or the discussion of physical fitness test requirements; body specifications, measurements and scales, and physical ability requirements deemed necessary for adequate job performance Uniforms and equipment Uniforms and equipment used by female Service members
[7] [8] The test replaced the United States Army Physical Fitness Test in October 2022. [1] In 2019, the new test was fielded with 63 Reserve and National Guard units. [9] It is the first change in the US Army physical fitness test in four decades. [2] Before being finalized, the ACFT went through several changes.
It replaces the 40-year-old Army Physical Fitness Test, which tested soldiers on their ability to do two minutes of situps, two minutes of pushups and a 2-mile run.
After three years of complaints and debate, the Army has scrapped its move to have a physical fitness test that is gender- and age-neutral, and will now allow women and older soldiers to pass ...