The Army is poised to recalibrate its fitness standards, redefining the physical expectations for combat-arms roles in 2025. Yet, where those minimum requirements will ultimately land remains an ...

Soldiers in combat arms roles will be required to score at least 60 points of a potential 100 per event, with a minimum overall score of 350. Those in combat support specialties must also achieve ...

The Army has reconfigured its fitness test, dropping the ball throw, making the test sex-neutral for combat arms and raising the minimum required score for 21 combat-focused jobs. The exact ...

Combat arms soldiers must score 350, also with a minimum of 60 points in each event, though these soldiers will need more points in some events to reach the 350 threshold.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday ordered a 60-day review of military combat arms standards to ensure that exceptions are not being made for female troops to assume the physically demanding ...

New Delhi: The Indian Army can be divided into two parts, Arms & Services. Arms also have two types of arms, Combat Arms and Support Arms. Infantry, mechanized infantry and armoured corps are ...

Read Next: New Army Fitness Test: No More Ball Yeet, Higher Standards for Combat Arms With the test going live on June 1, that could give units little time to prepare for new expectations.

As part of the review, Hegseth has ordered the military branches to “develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations,” the March 30 memo says.