The new body fat standards for female Marines, effective January 1, 2023, will be: Age 17-25: 27% Age 26-35: 28% Age 36-45: 29% Age 46-51+: 30% “Ultimately, this is about warfighting,” said Gen. David ...

The Marine Corps has begun shipping more than 250 new biometric machines around the globe as part of a new policy to measure body composition standards more accurately before labeling a Marine ...

The Marine Corps is recommending that "self-tensioning" measurement devices, such as these, be used to measure Marines' body fat. Photo Credit: via Marine Corps.

The new limits allow sailors to pass with a maximum 26 percent of body fat for men ... the Marine Corps ... exams to be measured using the Body Mass Index, which is a chart based on an ...

The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, ordered a review of all Marine physical fitness and body fat standards last November, asking Training and Education Command to deliver ...

Also in the updated policy, female Marines will be given a 1% increase in total allowable body fat. The Marine Corps is not the only service looking to update its use of the tape test for a more ...

A move to revisit Marine Corps body composition standards in light of women entering ground combat jobs may mean a reprieve from the unpopular tape test method of measuring body fat, Marine Corps ...