U.S. Army soldiers will no longer be judged based on a height and weight table, rather on a waist to height ratio as a measure of body composition, according to officials in a statement Tuesday. If a ...

The Army has replaced the long-standing height and weight tables, circumference-based tape test, and supplemental body fat ...

The Army is conducting an initial 180-day assessment, during which soldiers will not be separated if they fail to meet the ...

The Army scrapped its height-and-weight tables and tape test in favor of a semiannual waist-to-height measurement, the ...

The service is the last to replace height-and-weight tables after the Pentagon called for the change. The Army matched the ...

Soldiers with a confirmed waist-to-height ratio of 0.55 or higher will be placed in the Army's body composition improvement ...