ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Army has published a new directive called “Army Body Fat Assessment for the Army Body Composition Program” that will make immediate changes to the Army Body Composition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this op-ed, the author argues the Army’s outdated body composition policies are quietly eroding the readiness, health and ...

The Army Medicine Wolf Pack Award is a quarterly honor that highlights teams who have demonstrated extraordinary teamwork that resulted in extraordinary impact. Since 2010, the Surgeon General and the ...

A Soldier prepares for the dead lift event of the Army Combat Fitness Test Sept. 23, 2019, at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Thomas Brading/Army) The Army has set a timeline for reforms on how the service ...

As the US Army moves to a new way to measure soldiers’ body fat, officials acknowledged Wednesday that some soldiers who had previously passed under the old regulations may now fail under the new. The ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify how many volunteers researchers are seeking to participate in the study. FORT BRAGG — The bodies of Fort Bragg soldiers are being studied through ...

The Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry, or DXA, is seen as a gold standard by researchers, but also the least portable and most expensive tool. Testing also takes about 10 minutes longer than the BIA ...

The Army's outdated body composition policies are quietly eroding the readiness, health and performance of our force. The defense secretary's recent call to reevaluate these standards is long overdue, ...