A Soldier says he lost 20 pounds, runs three 5Ks a week, joined the 1,000-pound club and can max portions of the Army Fitness Test. The Army still flagged him under its new waist-to-height standard. And here’s the controversial part: your AFT score does not exempt you. The Army also eliminated the secondary body-fat assessment that could previously give muscular Soldiers another way to demonstrate compliance. Fitness standards should have teeth. But should one waist measurement outweigh actual p

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