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 ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) - The U.S. military is replacing long-standing height-and-weight charts with ‘waist-to-height ratio’ as the primary body-composition standard. A December Department of War memo ...
The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.
The U.S. military has officially moved away from long-standing height-and-weight tables and the traditional tape test in favor of a waist-to-height ratio as the primary body composition standard for ...