Troops must have a waist measurement close to or less than half their height or risk being placed in their service's remedial ...
The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ...
The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...
The Marine Corps has begun shipping more than 250 new biometric machines around the globe as part of a new policy to measure body composition standards more accurately before labeling a Marine ...
A body composition test measures percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in the body. It can provide a snapshot of your overall health, inform strategies to improve health, and help gauge progress toward ...
The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.