U.S. Navy introduces new gender-neutral fitness standards for its combat arms occupations, including the storied SEALs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special Warfare Combat Crewman trainees face rigorous training, but they, and other combat arms sailors must now take an annual on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S.

The Navy finally stopped grading knife fighters like office workers. For years, elite maritime operators were judged on a physical fitness test that rewarded jogging endurance and polite calisthenics, ...

The Navy has a new fitness test for active-duty “combat arms personnel,” including members of Naval Special Warfare and Naval Special Operations commands. It is called the Navy Combat Fitness Test ...

The new test is unlikely to be much of an issue, as Navy SEALs are among the most physically fit people on the planet. The Navy has released its latest physical fitness standards and a new combat arms ...

A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy has introduced new evaluation standards to measure ...