Tag: Army Combat Fitness Test

Staff Sgt. Edward Singh Chollet is the first and only reservist from Puerto Rico to receive the Expert Soldier Badge.

Unit Training

Tennessee’s D1 Training helps guardsmen get ACFT ready

by Crystal Kupper

11 months ago

D1 Training, an athletic training facility in Tennessee, helps local National Guardsmen get into the best shape of their military ...

Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew Lombardo, Army Reserve command sergeant major, presents the soldiers with awards for their accomplishments. Army Reserve photo.

News

Army Reserve names best warriors

by Bryan Kirk

The 2021 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition drew nearly 80 soldiers to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, for the annual 10-day ...

A New York Army National Guard soldier assigned to the 152nd Engineer Company uses a dozer to clear tree trunks and debris during construction operations at the National Guard Youngstown Local Training Area. U.S. Army National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Al Phillips.

Unit Training

Guard unit gets back to hands-on annual training

by National Guard Bureau

Soldiers with the New York Army National Guard’s 152nd Engineer Company dumped the virtual training from 2020 and got down ...

Lt. Col. Jen McDonough, 25th Infantry Division G-4, completes the drag portion of the sprint-drag-carry event during a diagnostic Army Combat Fitness Test. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Alan Brutus.

News

Statistics show females are still struggling to pass ACFT

More than seven months after the official launch of the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, nearly half of female ...

Video

Army astronaut’s video shows weightless ACFT, exercising in outer space

In a video released by the Army's Medical Center of Excellence, Army Col. Drew Morgan, a NASA astronaut, demonstrates the ...

Army Reserve Soldiers pull a 90-pound sled during the Sprint-Drag-Carry event, one of six test events for the Army Combat Fitness Test, at Operation Ready Warrior exercise, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in 2020. ORW, led by the 78th Training Division, was the Army Reserve’s first collective small-scale training exercise since the start of COVID-19. Photo by Master Sgt. Anthony L. Taylor.

Health

How to turn fitness resolutions into reality

by AmeriForce Exclusive

Research found 80% of people drop their resolutions by February.

Spc. Efren Gandara performs leg tucks during a pilot for the Army Combat Readiness Test, a six-event assessment designed to reduce injuries and replace the current Army Physical Fitness Test. (U.S. Army)

Career

‘Soldiers’ careers depend on it’: Senators want to halt Army Combat Fitness Test rollout

Two senators wrote a letter asking lawmakers to keep a measure in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would ...

Maj. Nathaniel Stickney counts the amount of leg tucks a cadet performs during the Leg Tuck portion of the Army Combat Fitness Test at West Point, Sept. 6, 2020. (U.S. Army/Eric Bartelt)

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Soldiers won’t have to pass Army Combat Fitness Test to graduate initial training