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 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.

Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Army's top NCO suggested that troops who score a 540 or higher on the Army Combat Fitness Test be exempt from body fat screening.

SAN DIEGO — The Navy is giving another chance to thousands of sailors who otherwise would be kicked out for repeatedly failing their physical fitness tests because they exceeded body fat limits.