The fitness track of the preparatory course allows applicants who are as much as 8% above Army body fat standards to enlist. The normal Army standard is up to 26% body fat for men and 36% for women.

Instead of continuing to punish soldiers for a medical condition, the Army must also implement a structured medical evaluation pathway for those who fail body fat standards. It goes without saying ...

exceeded the allowable 8 percent above the body fat composition limit for initial entry, with the highest being 19 percent.” Gen. Gary Brito, head of Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC ...

The report, “Management Advisory: Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory ... “the allowable 8% above the body fat composition limit for initial entry, with the highest being 19%.” ...

In doing so, the Army endangered their wellbeing ... exceeded the allowable 8 percent above the body fat composition limit for initial entry, with the highest being 19 percent,” the report ...

A U.S. Army sergeant faces up to a year imprisonment and a bad paper discharge for, among other things, repeatedly calling one soldier fat and pointing an unloaded sidearm at another By Jared ...