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  • Reports: Army may use ‘gender-specific’ fitness test scores for promotions amid women’s high fail rates on gender-neutral test

    03/16/2021 3:50:33 PM PDT · by PROCON · 65 replies
    americanmilitarynews.com ^ | March 16, 2021 | RYAN MORGAN
    The U.S. Army is considering reversing its plans to set a gender-neutral fitness standard in the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), an Army official told Military.com last month.The ACFT was intended to be a gender-neutral test, and would have required soldiers to score 360 out of 600 possible points, but preliminary figures showed 54 percent female soldiers failing the gender-neutral standard, as compared to 10 percent of male soldiers, according to Army data shared with the Washington Post last fall. Female soldiers were also scoring 100 points lower on the test, on average, than their male counterparts.“We are currently...