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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. Marine participates in a body composition assessment on Aug. 22, 2022 via bioelectrical impedance analysis scan at The Basic School on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

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 ...

Body composition is the amount of fat, bone, and muscle in your body. Having a good body composition is an important part of staying healthy, as having too much fat can increase your risk of illness.

The research found that the tape test “correctly identifies 91.6 percent of male Marines and 92 percent of female Marines as over the allowable body fat,” according to the release.