The Marine Corps provided advanced notification on December 18th 2025 of changes to physical fitness standards. The new ...

Updates include sex-neutral requirements for all combat MOS Marines to score a minimum of 210 out of a possible 300.

Combat roles in the Marines have had gender-neutral requirements since 2015. A new policy extends that rule to fitness test scores.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he would impose the “highest” male standards for all combat roles in the U.S. military during his Tuesday morning speech to hundreds of generals and admirals ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Sgt. Maj. Tamara J. Gregory, senior enlisted advisor for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, visited Fort Riley Oct. 4 at Barlow ...

Cpl. Janee Sheffield and her fellow Marines with the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force are weighed before participating in task assessments at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ...

An eight-year process to transform the training and skills of Army combat medics culminated last year as all members of the old 91B Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) became qualified as 68W ...

The U.S. Army formalized equal fitness standards between men and women in combat roles in new guidelines released Monday. The new Army Fitness Test (AFT), formally the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), ...

This article is the second story in a two-part series illustrating the roles women have in the military. Part 2 focuses on Pvt. Lashonda Ivy, one of the Army’s first female combat engineers. As the ...

Photo Credit: Cpl. David Thompson, 326th MPAD Soldiers from 316th Mobility Augmentation Company, 844th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, 412th Theater Engineer Command, tie their block of C4 ...