The Army will ignore a soldier's weight, a sharp swerve from the decades of history where troops were evaluated based on the dreaded "tape test" that tracked body dimensions. But there's a catch -- ...

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 ...

The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

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 ...

The Army is wrapping up research on how best to measure a soldier's body fat -- but the service's controversial tape test might not be dead yet. The Army is in the midst of totally revamping health ...

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 ...