There’s a lot of new technology ... they were excited at the possibility of a change to the Army’s height and weight standards, especially considering how long the tape test had been used.

But soldiers have raised issues with the standards in light of the new fitness test ... “Fundamentally, the Army system for height and weight is broken,” an Army captain told Task & Purpose ...

The U.S. Army introduces a new Army Fitness Test (AFT) emphasizing combat readiness and holistic fitness, replacing the ...

Here Is What You Need To Remember: The argument for change is that the standards are ... to assess people” on height and weight, Capt. Kristina Fauser-Martin, an Army performance dietician ...

WASHINGTON — After a months-long research study, the Army will keep its current height and weight screening tables ... of Marine Corps body composition standards could indicate one potential ...

Grinston said he doesn’t envision changes to the Army’s height and weight body composition standards ... he previously worked for newspapers in New Jersey, North Carolina and Maryland.

Soldiers who earn a high enough score on the Army’s fitness test will be exempt from body fat standards under a ... also reviewed the tables for height, weight and age, and found them 90% ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 1, 2012) -- Pre-war height, weight and physical fitness standards are coming back for Soldiers entering professional military education courses on or after Nov. 1.

As the US Army moves to a new way ... the required standard for their gender and height are enrolled in the Army Body Composition Program, which is meant to help them lose weight and get back ...

The original purpose of the Army's height-weight standards, which dates back as early as World War I, was to exclude underweight males whose underdevelopment may have indicated a chronic disease ...

In this op-ed, the author argues the Army ... standards is long overdue, but not in the way some might think. So why isn’t the tape test applied universally? Eliminating the height and weight ...