Will the Army Combat Fitness Test go live in April as planned?

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston said the service believes that the third version of the test, which made the plank event a permanent scored alternative to the leg tuck, will pass the review.

“I’m extremely confident that on April 1, we will have a test for record, and I am hopeful it will be the ACFT,” he said in an interview with Army Times ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army conference in October.

It’s not clear yet, though, whether the test’s gender-neutral scoring will remain gender-neutral when it comes to personnel considerations.

Army senior leaders have floated the idea of implementing “performance categories” that sort men and women by performance into percentile categories relative to their gender.