The Army Medicine Wolf Pack Award is a quarterly honor that highlights teams who have demonstrated extraordinary teamwork that resulted in extraordinary impact. Since 2010, the Surgeon General and the ...

In this op-ed, the author argues the Army’s outdated body composition policies are quietly eroding the readiness, health and performance of the force. (Pfc. Lilliana Fraser/Army) The Army’s outdated ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. - In June of 2023, the Army rolled out a revamp of the Army Body Composition Program. Since June of 2024, Soldiers needing to be taped during height and weight are now taped at only a ...

As obesity rates climb across America, the Army’s new body-composition policy arrives at a critical moment. This is not just a question of appearance; it is a matter of health, readiness, and ...

(CNN) — As the US Army moves to a new way to measure soldiers’ body fat, officials acknowledged Wednesday that some soldiers who had previously passed under the old regulations may now fail under the ...

Soldiers have a new incentive to get a high score on the service’s new Army Fitness Test. Those soldiers who score at least 465 are eligible to be exempt from the service’s body fat standards, Army ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) considers physical fitness an important component of the ''general health and well-being" and readiness of military troops (DoDD 1308.1, 1981) and defines physical ...

The Army's outdated body composition policies are quietly eroding the readiness, health and performance of our force. The defense secretary's recent call to reevaluate these standards is long overdue, ...