Shortly after he started his job as the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's new deputy commanding general for Initial Military Training, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling visited various units throughout ...

For more than a century the Army has tinkered with ways to make soldiers more fit. With each passing phase of warfare, leadership sought to get more soldiers ready for battle through a range of ...

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest and symbolic move that reflects mounting internal and political pressure over ...

Editor’s note: After publication, the Army provided additional detail on the PT uniform redesign. You can read that story here. The top enlisted leader for the Army announced that the service is ...

It’s been a decade in the making, but the Fort Eustis-based Center for Initial Military Training’s rethink of soldiers’ physical fitness and the test it developed has won a green light from Army ...

The Army’s physical fitness test has remained unchanged for some 40 years: two minutes to do as many push-ups as possible, then two minutes for sit-ups, then a two mile run. Recruits need a certain ...

Master Sgt. Kathryan Torres performs the three-repetition maximum deadlift during an Army Combat Fitness Test on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston on Sept. 20, 2022. (Spc. Joshua Taeckens/Army) ...

A controversial proposal that would force the Army to return to its old, and what service leadership argue is inferior, fitness test would allow for some changes, including swapping out events, ...