Army to Adjust Standards for New Combat Fitness Test This Fall

Beginning this fall, soldiers across the Army will have a year to bone up on physical fitness in order to ace the challenging new six-event Army Combat Fitness Test, which will become the required standard across the service by October 2020. But Army officials say they still plan to make some final adjustments to grading and standards based on early testing results. The Army is now about eight months into year-long field test of the ACFT involving 63 battalions of active, National Guard and Reserve soldiers. Once the field test is complete in October, soldiers across the Army will begin taking the ACFT for practice only until October 2020, when the ACFT officially replaces the current Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT). Read more on Military.com.