Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army will ignore a soldier's weight, a sharp swerve from the decades of history where troops were evaluated based on the ...

The Army is planning to stick to how it currently measures body fat for soldiers after a massive research effort across the force found the so-called tape test accurate enough and alternative body ...

Soldiers who hit the weights a little too hard, or maybe over-indulged during the holidays leading to a bit of weight gain, can find themselves failing the U.S. Army’s height and weight standards.

A soldier receives a 3-D body scan at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2021. The scan/study is part of a comprehensive body composition study examining the association between body composition and Soldier ...

A Marine participates in a body composition assessment on Aug. 22 via bioelectrical impedance analysis scan at The Basic School on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. (Lance Cpl. George Nudo/Marine ...