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  • Army developing new fitness test after complaints over troop readiness: report

    02/06/2019 6:36:57 PM PST · by jazusamo · 99 replies
    The Hill ^ | February 6, 2019 | John Bowden
    The U.S. Army is developing a more intensive fitness test tailored to combat situations following complaints from commanders of insufficient troop readiness. Top members of Army brass told The Associated Press that the existing physical fitness tests employed by the Army during basic training do not adequately prepare soldiers for the physical challenges of the battlefield. A new test that is described by the military as far more physically intensive “may be harder, but it is necessary,” Gen. Stephen Townsend, head of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, told the AP. “We needed to change the culture of fitness in...