Army fitness test changes will mean “sex-neutral” standards for soldiers in 21 combat jobs while nixing the standing power ...

(1st Lt. Kate Kramer/Army) The Army has reconfigured its fitness test, dropping the ball throw, making the test sex-neutral for combat arms and raising the minimum required score for 21 combat ...

The new test will no longer include the standing power throw, where participants have to throw a 10-pound medicine ball backward and overhead for distance. The memo did not state why this event is ...