This is precisely why the 75th Ranger Regiment, whose RAW assessments helped shape the original ACFT, removed the medicine ball throw years ago in favor of the broad jump. When one of the most elite ...

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) has dropped the medicine ball toss, removed the word “Combat” from its name, and introduced higher scoring requirements for combat arms soldiers.

The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT ... The standing power throw event challenges soldiers to hurl a 10-pound medicine ball backward over their head for distance. At first glance, it may seem ...

On Monday, the Army announced the redesigned Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) for soldiers in combat ... requiring soldiers to hurl a 10-pound medicine ball backward over their heads.

Army fitness test changes will mean “sex-neutral” standards for soldiers in 21 combat jobs while nixing the standing power throw.

The new Army Fitness Test (AFT), formally the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), will not have separate ... which involved throwing a 10 pound medicine ball over the back of one’s head.

(UnSplash) The current Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) will be renamed as the Army ... where soldiers were required to hurl a 10-pound medicine ball backward over their heads.

which required soldiers to throw a 10-pound medicine ball over their heads and backward. The standard AFT, which all troops must pass, will still be sex and age-based, according to the Army.

The removal of the standing power throw from the ACFT represents a smarter, more combat-relevant assessment of soldiers, the authors of this op-ed argue. (SSgt. Armando R. Limon/U.S. Army) ...

The recent removal of the standing power throw from the Army's fitness test threatens ... event challenges soldiers to hurl a 10-pound medicine ball backward over their head for distance.