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 ...

The Air Force will officially add new alternative ... strength components at time of their assessment. While the waist measurement is no longer a component of the fitness assessment, DoD ...

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.

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Since 2010, more than 30,000 airmen have failed the waist measurement portion of the Air Force fitness test. That’s a lot of girth — but should abdominal size be ...

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 ...

Bush reportedly failed the waist measurement portion of the test. The 25-year Air Force veteran said he will request retirement rather than accept a demotion. His Air Force biography said Bush ...

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.