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 height/weight standards in the Navy are also dependent on body fat. Many people who have significant muscle often will be out of the height and weight standards.

Neller ordered a comprehensive review of Marines' fitness standards last November that will examine scoring on the physical fitness and combat fitness tests as well as height, weight and body fat ...

The proposal, which is outlined in a document obtained by Marine Corps Times, recommends that height and weight standards and body fat measurements be waived for those who max their physical ...

WASHINGTON — After a months-long research study, the Army will keep its current height and weight screening tables, the service’s top noncommissioned officer announced at the Association of ...

In a study of 2,173 Marines—1,435 men and 738 women, 196 of whom were postpartum—the U.S. Marine Corps’ Training and Education Command, in alliance with the United States Army Research Institute of ...