Earlier this month, images posted to the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page showed charts and emails ... first service branch to ditch the waist measurement portion of the physical ...

(Staff Sgt. Dwane Young/Air Force) The Air Force said Monday it will officially use height-to-waist ratios to measure troops’ fitness starting this spring, solidifying its move away from the ...

with a 38-inch waist would just barely pass with a ratio of 0.54. The ratio aims to measure excess fat distribution in the abdominal region, the Air Force statement said. Instead of the top of the ...

the Air Force announced in a statement on Monday. The waist-to-height ratio is the heart of the new Body Composition Program, the replacement for the abdominal circumference measurement ...

He fell short by inches, he said, exceeding the Air Force's maximum waist measure of 39 inches. "I failed to meet the waist measurement component of the physical fitness standard," he said.

Airmen and Guardians will no longer have to go through the dreaded abdominal tape test, but will have their waist and height measured to keep tabs on their physical health and physique under a new ...

An airman of the 185th Air Refueling Wing measures his waist at the 185th ... The Air Force stopped including annual body circumference measurements in airmen’s PT test scores in 2020 amid ...

He fell short by inches, he said, exceeding the Air Force's maximum waist measure of 39 inches. "I failed to meet the waist measurement component of the physical fitness standard," he said.