Men and Women Marine Corps Height/Weight Standards Charts ... The Marine Corps changed its body fat standards and age groups for the PFT, CFT and Body Composition, effective 2017.

Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force use body-fat analyzers during a body-fat composition testing hosted by Marine Corps Community Services at the 21 Area Fitness Center, at Camp Pendleton ...

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 ...

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 ...